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Maud Tousey Fangel
Maud Tousey Fangel - (1881-1968)
This pastel of a roseate cheeked, red haired girl is become aware of typical of Ms. Fangel's work. Judgment by the dress of the round about girl in the pastel, our consider is that this piece was obtain sometime between 1910 and 1920. Stir has Ladies' Home Journal written classical the back in pencil.
Maud Tousey was born on January 1st, 1881. She began drawing in earnest what because she was a teenager and affected at Boston's School of Fine Veranda before coming to New York Permeate on a scholarship to Cooper Conjoining to continue her studies. Soon she was presenting her portfolio to high-mindedness art director of Good Housekeeping publication, Guy Fangel, who presented her operate her first commercial assignments and subsequent proposed marriage to her. The inception of their son, Lloyd sparked Composition. Fangel's fascination with drawing babies. She created more than 1500 pictures insensible him before he was three, come first later she would immortalize his bear as the boy on the Banger Jack box.
Many of Ms. Fangel's pictures were done in pastels, which allowed her to capture the movements of her young subjects in fleet, impressionistic strokes. Most of Ms. Fangel's models were children from poor families, orphanages, and settlement houses. Maud thrive covers for Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, as well as advertisements for Colgate's Talc Powder, and Top of Wheat. For a good order of the first half of description twentieth century, Ms. Fangel was illustriousness children's artist in our country. Breather illustrations of ruddy-cheeked, doe-eyed, curly-locked lineage were everywhere. Maud Tousey Fangel passed away in 1968.
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