Randomly V

(It's been two months and five days since I've had time to scrape together a blog post. We're all moved into the new house, but we're far from set up yet; so much more to do. So I thought I'd make it easy on myself and start off with a simple-to-assemble "randomly" post. It's good to be back.)

Margherita Gonzaga, Duchess of Lorraine, by Frans Pourbus the Younger, 1606.

Unknown subject, photographer unknown, ND.

Moonrise, by Stanisław Masłowski, 1884.

Marie-Hélène Arnaud and Joanna McCormick in Lanvin, photograph by Henry Clarke, 1957.

Unknown subject, unknown miniaturist, circa 1770s.

Arturo López-Willshaw, by Alexandre Jacovleff, 1923.

Unknown model,  photograph by Studio Arax, ND.

Mademoiselle Vaughan, by Paul César Helleu, 1905 (?).

Family portrait (On the Balcony), by Fyodor Slavyansky, 1851.

L'Amour et l'Hymen buvant dans la coupe de l'Amitié (Cupid and Hymen Drink from the Cup of Friendship),
by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1820.

Madame Spranza, Mathew Brady Studio, New York City, circa 1855-60.

Unknown subject, Josiah Johnson Hawes and Albert Sands Southworth, circa 1850.

Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers, 1934. (Film still?)

Anna Pavlova, circa 1911-12.

Portrait of a Monk of the Benedictine Order Holding a Skull, by Sir Anthony van Dyck, ND.

Portrait d'homme, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, circa 1760.

New Moon, by Isaac Brodsky, 1912.

"French pet store", photographer unknown, circa 1925.

Antoinette-Pauline de Montet-Duchambge, by Robert Lefèvre, circa 1810.

Jimmy Martin, photograph by Kris Studios, ND.

Cordelia, by Sir Walter Westley Russell, 1930.

Polonaise, Ted Shawn's Men Dancers, 1933

Ted Shawn - early photographs

Ted Shawn (October 21, 1891, Kansas City, Missouri — January 9, 1972, Orlando, Florida), born Edwin Myers Shawn, an important male pioneer of American Modern dance.  With his wife, Ruth St. Denis, he formed a dance company and the influential  Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts.  After both the school and the marriage foundered, he formed an all male company, his goal being to help bring acceptance of the male dancer in the United States.  In 1933 Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers had their premiere performance at Shawn's farm in Massachusetts.  With the dance company came the formation of Jacob's Pillow, a theatre, school, and retreat.  This eventually led to the internationally known Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, which exists to this day.

With Ruth St. Denis

With Ruth St. Denis

Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn by Nickolas Muray, circa 1925