January 19, 2025
Tag: Gaynor Rowlands
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Three Tragic Lives
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Three women of extraordinary beauty, talent, and wealth whose lives could be the outline for an anthology of tragic short stories are portrayed in this remembrance. Two were dead before age 50, the other shunned by the world. Helene Held, Nance O’Neil, and Gaynor Rowlands are forgotten today but postcard collectors know their faces and…
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January 9, 2022 1 Comment
An artist with many names, one of which was Penrhyn Stanlaws, was born in Scotland yet lived most of his life in America, is forgotten today. Yet, he along with other artists and illustrators of the time (Gibson, Fisher, King) are remembers for the “girls” they created to adorn the magazine covers of the era.