Sergei Diaghilev and Russian Art (Vanity Fair, 1916)
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Ladies’ Golf Attire by Burberrys (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)
A Burberry’s tweed, self-belted golf suit for the fashionable woman of 1922.
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Henri Matisse Viewing in New York (Vanity Fair, 1915)
This article will give you a good look at how the seeds were sewn as early as 1915 to ensure the rise of New York City as one of the great art centers of the world. For the first time since the 1913 Armory Show, New York was again to host an important exhibition of the European modernists. Much of the article concerns Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) and is illustrated with a portrait of the artist by the photographer Edward Steichen.
Things were changing – not long after New York was proclaimed as the commercial capital of the art world, America was recognized as the preeminent world power, click here to read about it…
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Henri Matisse Viewing in New York (Vanity Fair, 1915)
This article will give you a good look at how the seeds were sewn as early as 1915 to ensure the rise of New York City as one of the great art centers of the world. For the first time since the 1913 Armory Show, New York was again to host an important exhibition of the European modernists. Much of the article concerns Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) and is illustrated with a portrait of the artist by the photographer Edward Steichen.
Things were changing – not long after New York was proclaimed as the commercial capital of the art world, America was recognized as the preeminent world power, click here to read about it…
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The Versatile Mrs Jessup (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)
Marion Hall Zinderstein Jessup has one of the most versatile games on the courts. Overhead and off the ground, she possesses virtually all the strokes in tennis, forehand, backhand, lob, smash, volley and block volley, yet she has a weakness, one that has cost her many an important match, and when she met Mrs Mallory in 1920, probably the national championship.
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In Praise of Tennis Flannels (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)
For tennis, of course, the conventional flannel trousers will continue their popularity this season. But many men will also wear white duck or twill trousers, which has the advantage of great coolness and comparatively easy to launder… -but wait! the excitement does not stop with such trilling prose! The reader will also find a lovely fashion drawing of some awfully mannly tennis players as well as photographs of the fashions being praised.
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Men’s Tennis Clothes (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1921)
Four incredible sketches depicting the natty tennis clothing of 1921.
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Crepe de Chine Makes it’s Appearance on the Tennis Court (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1916)
In 1916 Coco Channel was not a household word in American fashion circles yet, but judging by this fashion editorial that appeared in Vanity Fair magazine, one can assume that her presence was being felt.
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U.S. Naval Officers Insignia (Vanity Fair, 1918)
Yet another examination of U.S. Navy officer insignia with additional illustrations of American naval rating patches.
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Essential Elements in Golf (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1918)
Throughout the fall of 1918, American golf enthusiast H.B. Martin (Harry Brownlow Martin, 1873 – 1965), who was not one to dally on the links when there are hard questions to be asked, approached the champions of the game with one query in mind:
What is the ONE essential thing in golf?
As you will read for yourself, he came away with many different responses.
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