Category: 1920s

Tulip and daffodil, 1927-1931

Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip 'Golden Age'. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Tulip ‘Golden Age’. Lisse, The Netherlands, May 1931. Spectracolor. | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad
Leendert Blok :: Orange daffodil, Narcissus Queen of Spain. Example of early photography made according to the Autochrome process. [The Netherlands, ca. 1927.] | src Collectie Spaarnestad

Adrian costume design, 1925

An Adrian costume design for Myrna Loy for What Price Beauty? (1925)
Pathé Exchange, 1925. Pencil and gouache on illustration board, signed at lower right, (“Adrian”), and inscribed on lower left: “Birthday Greeting / Myrna Loy.” The drawing, which depicts a blonde Myrna Loy in a sleek black gown with low gold sash, was executed for the Natacha Rambova-written and produced silent. This was one of the earliest film appearances of Myrna Loy, who played an exotic vamp, and among the earlier films for which Adrian designed costumes. | src Bonhams

Vs. dancers by A. Genthe

Arnold Genthe :: Nude dancers (clockwise, as described below)
Miss Hazel Kellog, 1922 (Nitrate negative)
Dancer Hilda Beyer, June 27th, 1913 (Glass negative)
Unidentified dancer, undated (Lantern slide)
The Dance: Allegro. Dancer Hilda Beyer, 1913 (Lantern slide)
source Library of Congress & Flickr

A Morgan dancer in pose

 Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, between 1914 and 1927. Nitrate negative | src Library of Congress
 Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ Marion Morgan dancer, between 1914 and 1927 (detail)

Marion Morgan dancer in pose

 Arnold Genthe (1869-1942) ~ A Marion Morgan dancer, between 1914 and 1927. Glass negative | src Library of Congress

Carolyn M. Pierson, 1928-129

Arnold Genthe :: Miss Carolyn M. Pierson, portrait photograph, 1928 or 1929, nitrate negative. | src Library of Congress