January 4th, 2010 -- by Dr. Faustus
More Government Ineptitude?
I am quite sure that all of our American readers and many others besides will be familiar with this choice bit of visual history, executed by James Montgomery Flagg:
Though perhaps you didn’t know that the same artist produced this image:
Now de gustibus non est disputandum of course, but if you really wanted to get me to show up at a recruiting post, I think I know which martial image I would use.
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So what’s it called, D’Artagnan’s Kid Sister?
Nice boots!
I was rather proud of this spoof I did:
http://vinnie-tesla.livejournal.com/27618.html#cutid1
I would’ve stuck longer with fencing had my instructor looked like that! (The bottom picture, that is.)
I belive the title of this work is “Puss in Boots” ;-)
Wow! Tell us more about the female portrait! Who, what, when? I love US History!
Susie, I don’t have a great deal of information about the second image. If you do a Google image search under “James Montgomery Flagg” (aside: could there *be* a more patriotic-sounding name?) you’ll find several reproductions of it under the title “The Fencer,” although I have another source — Craig You’s _Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings_ (San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007) which claims that the painting was popularly called “Puss in Boots,” (p. 101), as commenter E3 has already noted.
The model for the painting *might* have been a young woman named Ilse Hoffman. You can see one blogger’s take at http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2007/08/artists-in-love.html
Realize that’s not much; wish I had more.