I wish the scan didnāt black out their eyes and faces (circa 1928)
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Remember all those things I said I was going to do? Yeah, I did something completely different! For one, I finally did something with the YouTube account that comes with having this blogās Gmail account, so thatās a thing you can check out. So far itās mostly just playlists of other peopleās videos, recs for artistsā vlogs/tutorials, and uploads of other peopleās videos that I got permission to put on YouTube (more on all that in another post, probably). The first (slightly) original content Iāve made for it is this compilation of lovely Nell Brinkley art set to the songĀ āThe Nell Brinkley Girlā
Nell Brinkley was an illustrator and early comics artist in the early 20th century (though itās somewhat debatable whether her works count as ācomicsā as we think of them today, she worked at a time when ācomicsā were first really being defined, it would be equally anachronistic to exclude her entirely). Her depictions of women became glamour icons unto themselves and inspired a line of hair care products and at least two Broadway songs. āThe Nell Brinkley Girlā was part of Florenz Ziegfeldās Follies of 1908, and the role was originated by Annabelle Whitford (later Annabelle Moore, who also appeared in several early Edison films).
I could not find a recording of any performance of the song, but the sheet music is available online at the Library of Congress. In order to produce this recording, I transcribed the sheet music into the MuseScore softwareĀ (and then uploaded into their database), which generated both a MIDI piano recording andĀ āahhhh-ahhhhā vocals, which I supplemented with on-screen lyrics rather than subject you to my singing. Iāve also started working on the other song,Ā āThe Brinkley Bathing Girlā from The Follies of 1909, but I donāt really have a timeline for that one yet.Ā
Anyway, I hope you like this one, and please please please send me any suggestions you have for the YouTube channel generally (especially topics for playlists I could curate). I donāt plan for it to take over completely, but Iād like it to be a fairly robust sidebar to the blog. And of course, subscribing would help me gauge peopleās interest in it!
(x-posted to Patreon)
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So jealous
Happy Birthday to me! šššššš»š
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Nell Brinkley, the āQueen of Comicsā
As you can see from the title of this post, todayās artist that I will be discussing about is a female artist who gained popularity during the Golden Age of Illustration, but had since fallen into the shadows and was long forgotten.
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Serious Fantasy: Nell Brinkleyās Flapper Feminism
Serious Fantasy: Nell Brinkleyās FlapperĀ Feminism
A wildly successful woman in the manās world of cartooning, Nell Brinkley (1886-1944) was intent on letting her comics page heroines have it all. Fantasy was the passport Brinkley used to ferret her characters and readers from the domesticity most experienced to a world of self-expression, assertiveness, fame and professional success. I have written a bit about Brinkley in an earlier review ofā¦
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This was the most popular swimsuit 100years ago to date, snail trim was in
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