Artist painting a model

Artists and Model.
Vincent Glinsky, modern sculptor; George Constant, architectural painter; Lewis Daniel, expressionist; Fiske Boyd, graphic artist; and Minna Citron, abstract artist - old UPI photo for sale on  Ebay.

Earl Kerkham painting a model in a photograph by Alfred Puhn. More photos from Alfred Puhn here. The one above is for sale on Ebay.

2. SCULPTOR AND MODEL - THE ARTISTS AT WORK SERIES

The artists at work series: A portfolio of photographs in studio setting

Znedek Virt, Czech photographer, Nude in Artist's Studio. Another veiwpoint is on Ebay.

The Disney Life Drawing Class.

Modeling Life: Art Models Speak About Nudity, Sexuality, And the Creative Process

The Artist's Model: From Etty to Spencer

Artists and Models (Pocket Penguins 70's)



The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870

American Venus: The Extraordinary Life of Audrey Munson, Model and Muse

Virtual Pose 3: The Ultimate Visual Reference Series for Drawing the Human Figure

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 1: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures

Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes: Volume 2: The Walt Stanchfield Lectures


Virtual Pose for Artists by Mario Henri Chakkour Books Bundle
Art Models 5: Life Nude Photos for the Visual Arts (Art Models series)
Becca335 Pose (Art Models)

Paul Wonner, Artist and Model

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This is a collection of figure model photos in a variety of poses intended for artists, illustrators, animators or anyone who wants a high quality figure reference. Instant download.

Rudolph Ackerman - Prints

Print of Eve published by Rudolph Ackerman for sale on Ebay.

Posture Pictures

 In the 1940s, the US Navy Preflight training school took identity/posture photographs of recruits. Other examples of these type of photos called somatotypes  at somatotypes. This was a system of characterizing people by 3 different body types invented by Dr. William Sheldon, who took thousands of these pictures. Here's another link to a description of the system. This link takes it further and describes the personality types predicted by the physical characteristics. Similar pictures were taken by the Ivy League schools and the Seven Sisters probably to support research and theories into body types and social hierarchy. See the Wikipedia entry.

The image on the right is from Erika Gentry's blog

The whole business of measurement was closely linked to another study, that of anthropometry. This is a photo of a demonstration of the system of measurement in anthropometry from a early twentieth century conference from a wikipedia. Anthropometry as a system of measurement still has its uses but as a system of classifying personality types it is discredited just as Petrus Camper's system of classifying people by facial measurement is discredited.

 

 This type of photo has been a staple of photographers since the camera was invented from photographers taking pictures at camera clubs, which are celebrated in this book by Jim Linderman Camera Club Girls to Akira Gomi's photographs of women and Jo Schwab's modern prints.

It was also a pose used in those picture books of female bodies which were characterized as figure studies in the 30s, 40s and 50s.


It is rare to produce drawings or paintings with this pose because they can appear static. Some artists succeed though.

Compare this drawing by Janet E. Davis, from her blog, to Pierre-Paul Prudhon's.

 Lance Richlin has another successful painting of this pose, compare it to Zinaida Serebriakova's drawing.

Here is another an example from a Facebook page about W.R. Watkins.

The Female Nude I: A Pose Book For Artists
The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body

 

Art Models: Life Nudes for Drawing Painting and Sculpting

Art Models Ultra Becca (Art Models Series)

Becca335 Pose (Art Models) for Kindle

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This is a collection of figure model photos in a variety of poses intended for artists, illustrators, animators or anyone who wants a high quality figure reference. Instant download.

Article about the use of posture pictures at Vassar. Another article about the pictures at University of Washington. An article about the growth of children citing similar pictures.

Early sculpture was characterized by the pose. On the left  Egyptian wooden sculpture 2nd millennium b.c.  and the right a Jain tirthankara from the 9th century.

Marchesa Casati

Introduction from Infinite Variety, The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati:

“She was the most scandalous woman of her day.”

The Marchesa Luisa Casati was Europe’s most notorious celebrity, and its most eccentric. For the first three decades of the twentieth century she astounded the continent. Nude servants gilded in gold leaf attended her. Bizarre wax mannequins sat as guests at her dining table. She wore live snakes as jewelry. And she was infamous for her evening strolls, naked beneath her furs, parading cheetahs on diamond-studded leashes.

Blog link.  Another blog.

Another link: Style Icons: Marchesa Luisa Casati

An Italian Fashion Legend: The Marchesa Casati

The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse

Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati (Definitive Edition)

Augustus John: The Marchesa Casati

Die göttliche Marchesa. Leben und Legende der Luisa Casati

1919 Paintings: Marchesa Casati

20th-Century Portraits: Marchesa Casati, Study for a Self-Portrait-triptych, 1985-86,