Fine Line

There's a fine line between vanity and good grooming. Without mirrors most of us would be total slobs, but I guess it's that lingering gaze of self-admiration that constitutes unabashed vanity.

George Randolph Barse — Toilet of a Zephyr — 1894

George Plank — Vanity — 1917

Fashion Fantasy

This 1927 Vogue cover art by George Plank, the last he did for the magazine, was to the theme of A Forecast of Spring Fashions—continuing the eternal trend of outlandish fashion fantasy disconnected from any Earthly reality.

George Plank — Vogue — 1927

Op Art

'Op art', some 50 years before it was the thing.

George Plank — art for Vogue cover — 1918