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Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

Rockwell Kent: Artists of Democracy (Rob Wagner's Script Magazine, 1942)
1942, Modern Art, Recent Articles, Rob Wagner's Script Magazine

Rockwell Kent: Artists of Democracy
(Rob Wagner’s Script Magazine, 1942)

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The U.S. had only been actively engaged in World War II for five months when the American artist Rockwell Kent (1882 – 1971) felt the impulse to write about the unique roll an artist must play when a democracy goes to war:

The art of a democracy must be, like democracy itself, of and by and for the people. It must and will reflect the public mood and public interest…Awareness of America, of its infinitely varied beauties and of its sometimes sordid ugliness; awareness of the life of America, of its fulfillments and its failures; awareness, if you like, of God, the landscape architect supreme – and political failure: of the promise of America and of its problems, art has been, or has aimed to be, a revelation. It is for the right to solve these problems our way that we are now at war.

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Resourceful Robert Motherwell (Quick Magazine, 1951)
1951, Modern Art, Quick Magazine, Recent Articles

Resourceful Robert Motherwell
(Quick Magazine, 1951)

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The ink-stained editors at QUICK MAGAZINE rarely ever concerned themselves with the Bohemian-happenings of the New York art world, but when the abstract expressionist painter Robert Motherwell (1915 – 1991) strayed from the standard-issue art supply tools and used a reflective fabric called Scotchlite in the creation of a 12 foot, three-paneled mural – the editors thought it was news.

Robert Henri (Vanity Fair, 1916)
1916, Modern Art, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

Robert Henri
(Vanity Fair, 1916)

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A VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE profile of the American painter Robert Henri (1865 – 1929):

Robert Henri does not sympathize with the artists who throw their work in the face of the public with a ‘There, take it or leave it.’ Indeed, he has an almost hieratic belief in the power of the fine arts, not merely to delight, but to improve, to uplift and to educate the masses.

Click here to read further about the 1913 Armory show.

Robert Henri (Vanity Fair, 1916)
1916, Modern Art, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

Robert Henri
(Vanity Fair, 1916)

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A VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE profile of the American painter Robert Henri (1865 – 1929):

Robert Henri does not sympathize with the artists who throw their work in the face of the public with a ‘There, take it or leave it.’ Indeed, he has an almost hieratic belief in the power of the fine arts, not merely to delight, but to improve, to uplift and to educate the masses.

Click here to read further about the 1913 Armory show.

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Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

By /

American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

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Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

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American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa ('47 Magazine, 1947)
1947, 47 Magazine, Miscellaneous

Irwin Shaw Recalled Combat PhotographerRobert Capa
(’47 Magazine, 1947)

By /

American novelist Irwin Shaw (1913 – 1984) was quick to reminisce about the bad old days of World War II and Robert Capa (1913 – 1954), who fit it like a round peg fits a round hole:

Capa is a dangerous influence because he has perfected the trick of making life among the bombed cities and the stinking battlefields of our time seem gay and dashing and glamorous…


Click here to read an anecdote about Robert Capa during the Spanish Civil War.

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William Orpen and the Portrait of Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn (Vanity Fair, 1915)
1915, Modern Art, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

William Orpen and the Portrait of Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn
(Vanity Fair, 1915)

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Here is a petite notice that appeared in a 1915 issue of VANITY FAIR heralding a new portrait by the British painter William Orpen (1878 – 1931), which depicted the likeness of a popular American stage actress Mrs. Oscar Lewisohn (Edna May Pettie 1878 – 1948). The anonymous reviewer compared the portrait styles of Orpen with that of London’s reigning portrait painter, John Singer Sargent:

Sargent had a way of showing his sitters as they didn’t think they looked. On the other hand, Orpen has a trick of making his sitters look like what they would like to be.

Four Photgraphs of the Extended Royal Family (Vanity Fair, 1915)
1915, European Royalty, Vanity Fair Magazine

Four Photgraphs of the Extended Royal Family
(Vanity Fair, 1915)

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Assorted photographs of the assembled German, Spanish, Belgian, Russian, Norwegian and British royal families, posed as they gathered to attend the the 1894 and 1896 Royal weddings at Coburg; also pictured is the group photo snapped at the 1898 shooting party at Sandingham. Queen Victoria appears in two of the pictures, while Kaiser Wilhelm II can be seen in all of them.

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Clothing the Camper and Yachtsman (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1917)
1917, Men's Fashion, Vanity Fair Magazine

Clothing the Camper and Yachtsman
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1917)

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For all too few it is understood that fashion need not end in the wilderness: for it is more than likely that that was where the need for fashion was first recognized and it was there, among the toads and the dung, that the Well-Dressed man first crawled out of the muck and civilizationstyle=border:none

was born. With all this in mind, Robert Lloyd Trevor reviewed the fashions for the enjoyment of camp-life in this 1917 Vanity Fair review. Another vital concern touched upon by the journalist was the clothing available to the yachtsmen at that time:

Yachting is one of the things that begin at the bottom. That is to say, at the shoes. They are the foundation, as it were, for the rest of life on the rolling deep.

The Fifth Avenue Soldier (Advertisement, 1918)
1918, U.S. Army Uniforms of World War One

The Fifth Avenue Soldier
(Advertisement, 1918)

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The haberdashers of the Franklin Simon Company of Fifth Avenue, New York City, simply must not have been reading the many news reports regarding the horrors of industrial warfare. Indeed, their concept of coping with such carnage involved offering such sale items as silk handkerchiefs, cashmere socks and a dashing bathrobe for tooling around the barracks.

Click here to see what Brooks Brothers was selling During World War One.

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