Josephine Baker

View Similar Items

Janet Morgan - The Dynamic Center, colorful, goddess with abstract elements, red, blue, yellow

Janet Morgan - Help From Friends, colorful blues, purples, spiritual figure abstract watercolor

Janet Morgan - The DNA Goddess

Janet Morgan - In Good Hands, swirling colorful spiritual abstracted goddess figure

Janet Morgan - To Forge Peace , Wild Woman Series, colorful powerful nude female figure

Janet Morgan - Mushroom Woman, colorful deep blue figurative mushroom hat

Janet Morgan - Double Namaste, let us touch and unite, colorful yoga reference

Janet Morgan - Adjusting the Radar, powerful image of trying to get it right, bold color

Janet Morgan - Tulsi Spirit, embodying the magical herb of India with iridescent pigments

Janet Morgan - How To Listen, colorful spiritual figure

Janet Morgan - On Top of the World figurative, green colorful spiritual

Janet Morgan - Stringer, colorful green figurative abstraction

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 2

Stanley Kimley
Josephine Baker
1940

Name: Josephine Baker
Brand: Stanley Kimley
Rating: 5 (40 reviews)

Price:$800

$1,200List Price

About the Item

STANLEY KIMLEY "JOSEPHINE BAKER" WATERCOLOR, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1950 26.5 X 17.25 INCHES Stanley Klimley 1915-2001 Stanley Peter Klimley was a prominent magazine illustrator in the 1940s and 1950s working in New York City and well known for his romantic and poignant family illustrations in national magazines. His work appeared regularly in magazines such as McCall’s, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion, Colliers Readers Digest. He was particularly skilled at creating romantic scenes which had suggestive overtones, yet fit into the straight-laced world of 1950s publishing. Stan was also one of the first illustrators—if not the first— to portray an African-American woman in a national women's magazine. Stan studied at the Art Student’s League in New York City and was a member of the Illustrators club in New York City. His artistic style with its soft colors, confident lines, beautiful women, and handsome men—and storytelling abilities—put him squarely in the mainstream of the romantic school of American 20th century illustration typified by Bob Peak and Coby Whitmore. In the 1950s he was featured in an article that ran in McCalls’ on well designed Christmas packages as one of America’s eight most famous illustrators together Austin Briggs, Coby Whitmore, Joe De Mers, and others. When photography began to eclipse magazine illustration, Stan sailed for Europe with his wife, Dorothy and two children, April Jean Withington and Abbot Peter. Together the family traveled through Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France and Great Britain in their American station wagon. They paused in the middle of their sojourn to spend the winter in Florence, where Stan studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti and the family lived at first on the Viale Michelangelo and then in the Pensione Norchi on the Lungarno della Zecca. Returning to the US in 1955, Stan worked as freelance artist and illustrator for a number of nationally known brands including Frigidaire, Avon, and Longine’s Wittnauer. From the 1960s through 1980s, he worked at two advertising agencies: Dancer Fitzgerald Sample as an art director, and SSC&B as an illustrator. He retired in 1986. Stan was head of the Civic Arts Commission in White Plains from 1958 to 1965. During that time produced portraits, landscapes, and a mural and map of historic White Plains. The centerpiece of the mural shows George Washington perched majestically on a rearing horse during his retreat from New York to his Revolutionary War Headquarters in White Plains. The mural is on permanent display in the White Plains Public Library. Stan was born in Providence Rhode Island on January 31, 1915, the oldest of four sons of Raymond and Teofelia Klimaszewski. He was raised in Rochester, NY, where his father ran a window washing business. At Benjamin Franklin High School, his music talent led him to found a band called the “Blue Notes” in which he played the trumpet. Stan also attended the Rochester Institute of Technology. Stan moved to White Plains in 1940 soon after meeting and marrying his wife Dorothy Abbott in Buffalo, New York where both artists were working as sketch artists for major department stores during the Depression. Dorothy Abbott was a talented fashion artist, who had previously taught at the Traphagen School of Design in New York City. Stan married Dorothy in 1939 and shortly after moved to White Plains, NY where Dorothy was a long-time resident. At that time, he also changed his family name from Klimaszewski to Klimley—a combination of his Polish surname and personal name. The new name was much easier for Americans to pronounce in that era, and simpler for him to use to sign his illustrations. In New York City, Stan and Dorothy founded a design studio, Abbott-Klimley, which flourished with clients such as the Wool Bureau for which they did annual reports. They closed the studio in the mid-1950s as Stan’s career as an illustrator began to take off. Stan’s wife Dorothy died in 1977. In 1981 he remarried to Ann Seraphaglu of White Plains, New York. In 1992, he and Ann moved to Boca Raton, Florida, where he became a member of the Boca Raton Rotary club and continued to do freelance work and portraits.

Creator:
Stanley Kimley (1915 - 2001, American)
Creation Year:
1940
Medium:
Archival Paper,Watercolor
Movement & Style:
Art Deco
Period:
1930-1939
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Los Angeles, CA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU39120966

More From This Seller

View All

Seated Semi-Nude

By Emil Ganso

Located in Los Angeles, CA

EMIL GANSO "SEATED NUDE" CHARCOAL WITH COLOR WASH, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1930 21.5 X 15.5 INCHES Biography from Butler Institute of American Art Emil Ganso 1885-1941 Ganso was born in Germany in 1895. At age 14, he apprenticed to a baker and then worked his way to America when he was 17. He worked in bakeries in Scranton, Pennsylvania; and Cincinnati and Akron, Ohio. By 1916, Ganso was out of a job, and living the life of a bohemian in New York City, sometimes on less than 30 cents a week. In 1921, Ganso painted on a realistic nude on a bedsheet and was forced by the police to remove it from an exhibition. The bedsheet with the painting was later stolen. He soon had a job baking again at $140 a month, and with time to spare for painting and study. Ganso quit baking in 1925 when a New York dealer game him financial backing of $50 a week. Ganso has prospered from his art ever since. His work is in over 15 American museums, and the Print Club of Cleveland awarded him a $500 purchase prize for a wood engraving. A versatile artist, he paints a variety of subjects. Source: from a profile written by Clyde Singer...

Category

1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal

Emil Ganso
Seated Semi-Nude, 1935

$1,075 Sale Price

50% Off

Nu Avec Phonographe

By Marcel Gromaire

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ink on paper of a nude with a phonograph. Signed and dated 1931 lower right. Framed size is 20.5 x 17.5 inches. Marcel Gromaire was a French artist who painted many works on social ...

Category

1930s Art Deco Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Marcel Gromaire
Nu Avec Phonographe, 1931

$3,500

NUDE WITH RED HAIR

By Lucien Boulier

Located in Los Angeles, CA

LUCIEN BOULIER "NUDE WITH RED HAIR" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1930 26 X 20 INCHES Lucien Boulier 1882-1963 Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...

Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Lucien Boulier
NUDE WITH RED HAIR, 1925

$1,950 Sale Price

29% Off

Femme Assis a la Mantilla Noire

By Georges Artemoff

Located in Los Angeles, CA

GEORGES ARTEMOFF "LA FEMME ASSIS A LA MANTILLE NOIRE” OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED RUSSIAN-FRENCH, DATE 1963 PROVENANCE: GALERIE MAKASSAR , PARIS 31.75 X 20 INCHES Illustrated in the c...

Category

1960s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Georges Artemoff
Femme Assis a la Mantilla Noire, 1963

$6,500

Nu Feminin

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Henri Montassier was born at Courlon near the River Yonne on July 27th 1880. As a young man he studied under Luc -Oliver Merson and began his career painting primarily landscapes, ma...

Category

1920s Art Deco Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Henri Montassier
Nu Feminin, C. 1920's

$2,750

Lounging Nude

By Reza Afrookhteh

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Reza begun studying art seriously at age 15 and was studying at the institute of art in Iran where he graduated with highest honors. He also studied privately with one of Persia’s m...

Category

2010s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Watercolor, mixed media, using resists. Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...

Category