I love the great "shaving in movies " thread, and thought that I might ask whether anyone has noticed DE or SE shaving in art (of any culture or period). Two that came to my mind are: Peggy Bacon's Casual Ablutions etching from 1931 and one by her teacher, the great John Sloan, with Barber Shop from 1915. I wonder what Alexander Brook, the subject of Bacon's print, would have been shaving with in 1931? Both of these are American, but I'm guessing that there must be British examples too. Anyone else? I would like to suggest that we don't include advertisements.
Shaving in art
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I got into Bev Doolittle when living in Alaska. She hid a lot of stuff in her pictures. Check these out.
The first is "Three More for Breakfast" than the next is "2 More Indian Horses"
In the actual art you see 3 bears and a mountain man eating breakfast and then a Calvary soldier and 2 braves sneaking up and off with 2 horses. You can tell she used the same background for both.
The first is "Three More for Breakfast" than the next is "2 More Indian Horses"
In the actual art you see 3 bears and a mountain man eating breakfast and then a Calvary soldier and 2 braves sneaking up and off with 2 horses. You can tell she used the same background for both.
One of my favorites is Norman Rockwell's "First Shave",
shared with the world by best-norman-rockwell-art.com
shared with the world by best-norman-rockwell-art.com
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One of my favorites is Norman Rockwell's "First Shave",
shared with the world by best-norman-rockwell-art.com
I knew there must be at least one Rockwell. Thanks! Have you seen the exhibition at SAAM of his work from Lucas's and Spielberg's collections?
Unfortunately, I have not.
Elwood Fordham "Shine at Stades Barber Shop"
Oil on Canvas Laid on Panel American, signed, c.1935
Oil on Canvas Laid on Panel American, signed, c.1935
Alexander Carse - Barber's Shop
Woman Shaving Esquire Magazine 1965
Note the hands.
Note the hands.
Suburban Scenes by Mike Savad
Hoboken, NJ Sept 2007
See what the soldier with glasses is holding in his left hand?
There is another brush and a tube of something in the lower right corner.
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More Mauldin.
remake of the 1965 cover, this time with Jessica Simpson:
here are a few more magazine covers:
Christian Andreas Schleisner - An Elder Gentleman Shaving
Poetry too. Check out "Sweeney Erect" by T.S. Eliot.
The Barber Shop Painting by Victoria Heryet
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W.E. PIDGEON
Barber's Shop In A Forward Area (Australian War Memorial Collection, Accession No, ART29337, Reproduced Australian Women's Weekly, 29 July 1944)
"He's a hell of a little barber....an ex ladies' hairdresser from Farmers or, some say, Borrowmans - anyway cuts a pretty hair. The charge is 1/- of which he gets 6d. You sit on a sawn off log in a parlor of the most delicate hessian".
Miklos Suba - Eagle Barber Shop - 1940
Oil on Canvas
This is great! I'm currently looking for wall hangings for my soon to be redecorated MB.
