1890s Art Model

Artist Model 1920s

Performance Artist Milo Moiré

„Respektiert uns! Wir sind kein Freiwild, selbst wenn wir nackt sind!“
Respect us! We are not fair game even if we're naked!

http://www.milomoire.com/?lang=en

Charles Grignion the Elder

Duchess of Kingston

This is an antique hand colored engraving from The Life and Memoirs of Elizabeth Chudleigh, published in 1788. The inscription reads "Miss Chuldeigh in the character of Iphigenia at the Venetian Ambassador's Masquerade" which caused a major SCANDAL at the time and caught the Duke of Kingstons eye causing him to marry her. She was already married. More scandal.

Society of Dilettanti

These prints are from a rare first edition elephant folio, stipple engravings are from Specimens of Antient Sculpture, Aegyptian, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman by the Society of Dilettanti. The work was printed in London by T. Bensley for T. Payne and J. White in 1809. The work was only one of 200 published. Only 60 of these were printed on large-paper and reserved for the society. This particular engraving is larger than those in the Royal Academy and is likely one of the 60 that were for the society members. Many of the illustrations for this work came from the collections of Richard Payne Knight and Charles Townley. Knight wrote the text for this work. The illustrations pay tribute to the best classical sculptures in England.

19th Century Italian Anatomy Study

Jack Kramer

Biography at Childs Gallery

He wrote Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing

Earl MacPherson - Artist's Sketchpad

Drawings

From  various figure drawing sessions.

Virginia Mull - California Artist

Virginia Mull, California Artist, on Ebay.

She lived in Los Angeles her entire life, 1913-1977.

AskArt page

Joe Waano-Gano Figure Studies

Joe Waano-Gano, painter of western subjects and American natives. Drawings are for sale on Ebay.

Another drawing at 1stdibs, seated male nude also at 1stdibs, wrestling male nudes also at 1stdibs

Wikipedia page

Using a Figure Drawing Book as Inspiration

This model is posing for a photo session in an artist's studio. She takes her inspiration for the pose from a figure drawing book. It looks like it is Andrew Loomis' Figure Drawing for All It's Worth.

The open page in the first photo looks like page 194, which illustrates distributed weight in a figure.

The nearest page in the second photo looks like a combination of 2 illustrations, page 102 and 106, which illustrate twisting and turning of the figure.

Andrew Loomis was born in 1892. After school he moved to Chicago, and worked in editorial and advertising for most of the top clients at the time including Kellogg's, Coca Cola, Lucky Strike and more. He published Fun With A Pencil in 1939 and his hugely influential Figure Drawing for All It's Worth in 1943.


Figure Drawing for All It's Worth 2011 edition


Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (How to draw and paint) 1971 edition


Fun With A Pencil