Four Oaks

The female nude form dominates the history of art and decorative illustration, and apparently the posts of this blog. But there are some seemingly rare examples of using the decorative male nude form, such as this suite of drawings by Beatrice Stevens, from the 1920s—much in the spirit of Franklin Booth.

The drawing suite is entitled Four Oaks, with subtitles referring to the four movements of classical musical compositions—allegro, andante, scherzo, and allegro con brio.

Four Oaks — Allegro

Four Oaks — Andante

Four Oaks — Scherzo

Four Oaks — Allegro con brio

Valley of Silence

I found this 1911 Franklin Booth drawing floating around loose in the image morgue. Ya never know what'll turn up in dat ol' morgue.

Franklin Booth — Valley of Silence — 1911

Could We Have Another Booth Please?

Why, yes of course. Right this way . . .

Booth in the Corner

Who doesn't love Franklin Booth's artwork? It's interesting to read this candidly written blurb of his work from a 1920s book of pen and ink masters. Though these are nice, it's too bad that they couldn't have used some better examples of his work. 

Beautiful Detail

Whew, I'm really socked in with deadlines. Here's a quick one: Franklin Booth, wizard of penwork, created this ad for an organ company for a national magazine in the 20's that ran it fairly small, but when magnified, contained such beautiful detail.

Franklin Booth

detail of above