Pipes in Art

[simnettpratt]

I found a 1928 Dunhill catalog listing them for 25/- (shillings), so maybe double that by 1939?. There were twenty shillings (also called a bob) to a pound. Dunhill made no catalogs in the 40s due to the war, except for a 'gift' one made in the States in 1943. Their shop was destroyed in the blitz, the Italians kept all their briar, and vulcanite was either rationed or prohibited. In 1939, a basic British Army conscript made 2/- to 3/- a day, more for specialists, while a corporal would make a whopping 6/- a day.

 

[edgreen]

Today's entry is some graffiti art from around the world

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

That uncredited piece from at the bottom of edgreen's post from two days ago looks like my kind of moment. Sitting around a table with friends after a hard day of physical work, the sun going down, smoking some tobacco, and sharing a pitcher of beer. Even if it's not beer, I'm going to pretend that it is.
Love the graffiti! I never would have thought of that. Do toys count as sculptures?

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[edgreen]

So that's where Greta Garbo got that voice.

That Nazi toy just bothers me.

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

Hahaha! I wouldn't leave him on my dresser; I'd never sleep.

 

[prndl]

something tells me that baseball team does not take kindly to losing.
my favorite thread, btw.

 

[edgreen]

something tells me that baseball team does not take kindly to losing.

I thought it looked more "Gangs of New York" than "Sandlot"

 

[simnettpratt]

The kids just think it's a movie character, and the movie people just sell it to make more money. Ask many of the kids today who we fought in WWII, and they'll come back with, 'Er, Russia?'.
No. Not Russia.
@archy: My brother-in-law is a sculptor, and is in museums. His specialty is life sized period figures from the 50s and 60s, eg John Wayne, Marylin Monroe, James Dean etc, though he can do anything in any medium. Madame Tussauds flew him to London to interview with them. Talk about not being able to sleep - try spending the night in their spare bedroom.

 

[edgreen]

Do you think we could get a wax figure of Kevin done and put in Madame Tussaud's?

 

[simnettpratt]

I checked. M. Tussauds said the gleam of his teeth would frighten the children.

 

[edgreen]

As part of my summer "flashback" I've played baseball, played army and now it's time to play cowboys.
Hank Campbell

Jacob Cracker by Steve Summerlin

Garland Weeks

Kwan Wu

Boyd Perry

Lori Garfield

Harry Brown

 

[edgreen]

Keith Rocco – detail

A Picasso I've never seen

Boris Grigoriev

Dr. Edward Atkinson (part of Amundsen Scott team)- history or art? I thought it was a beautiful picture

 

[edgreen]

I guess that's why Schubert couldn't finish that symphony; too busy with his pipe.

 

[edgreen]

George Biddle - Poor Whites

Edouard Manet - two drawings for "The Smoker"

 

[edgreen]

William Sidney Mount – bar scene

Robert Julian Onderdonk – Still Life

Fernand Leger - The Smokers

 

[edgreen]

It's not winter for me until I've heard "Winterreise". My cat has a preference for his string quartets.

 

[edgreen]

These are all from the Bain News Service files. They were the original American news service around the turn of the 20th century.
Walter Travis – a turn of the century amateur golf champion as well as author and innovator.

I hope that is a pipe the guy on the left is packing. Otherwise, this was the worst peace talk ever.

Police commissioner Brigham – (?)

Besides being such a cool picture of people I’ve never heard of, take a look at the guy in the back doing the old school photo bomb. I blew it up. It’s definitely a pipe in the guy’s mouth.

 

[edgreen]

From the High Museum in Atlanta, Georgia
Bill Traylor – around 1939

Sam Doyle – late 1970’s

Howard Finster - late 1970’s/ check out the guy in the front right

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

Love that George Biddle - Poor Whites. Must be the same pessimistic side of me that likes Van Gogh's The Potatoe Eaters over all his other beautiful and colorful works.No pipe here, I'm afraid. These people are just too poor.

 

[edgreen]

The following are from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portrait of Auguste Rodin

Albert André Guillaume

Le Bon Bock

Édouard Manet

Merry Company

Attributed to Jan Steen