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Charles Sheldon :: Vintage photograph featuring a model posed in profile to best show off her hat which dips dramatically over one eye and sports a jaunty feather plume on top. Taken by American illustrator and amateur photographer Charles Sheldon,

ca. 1920s. This jazz age still was likely taken as an aid to the creation of a pastel work for an advertisement or women’s magazine fashion plate. / via

gmgallery / original source of image and text: Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay

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Charles Sheldon :: Bathing Beauty Flapper Cools off with Fan, 1920′s

Charles Sheldon was a prolific and gifted early 1900’s American
Illustrator who specialized in “pretty woman” themed cover portraiture
and advertising in the Art Nouveau and Edwardian styles. After studying
at the Art Students League, he went to Paris to study under the
legendary Alphonse Mucha. He returned to America and set up a studio at
Carnegie Hall in New York City.
By 1921
he was contributing high fashion portraits to Woman’s Home Companion
and Theater magazine. Famous women all over the world arranged to sit
for portraits in his studio in Carnegie Hall in New York. The pastels he
created for Photoplay 1925-1930 launched his career as a portrait cover
artist. [read more] / original source: eBay

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