Showing posts with label life magazine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life magazine. Show all posts

Artists And Their Models

Painter Thomas Hart Benton in his classroom-studio at the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1939.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Jean Negulesco paints a portrait of a nude model in his Hollywood studio.
© Jerry Cooke

Moses Soyer paints a portrait of a woman in his Greenwich Village studio in 1960.

Artist David Fredenthal sketches a model in 1948.
© Gjon Mili

German surrealist Fabius von Gugel sketches a nude outdoors against a backdrop in Rome.
© Jack Birns
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Artists And Their Models

Students at the University of Iowa, 1961.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Artist and model in the American Southwest in 1948.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

A painter prepares a billboard for the 1958 Ava Gardner film, The Naked Maja.
© Bill Bridges

Sculptor Chaim Gross sketches a nude model in 1942.
© Eliot Elisofon

A nude model poses for artist Fletcher Martin in 1940.
© Peter Stackpole
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On The Set Of 'Prehistoric Women', 1950

8 feet 2 inches Johann Peterson embracing the victims in 'Prehistoric Women'


Laurette Luez

Kerry Vaughn

Mara Lynn









Photos by Allan Grant for Life Magazine, June 6, 1950.

Underwater Ballet


Belita doing underwater ballet for a movie, Los Angeles, 1945. 
Photographed by Walter Sanders.
Maria Belita Gladys Olive Lyne Jepson-Turner (25 October 1923 – 18 December 2005), known professionally as Belita, was an British Olympic figure skater, dancer and film actress.





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Lili St. Cyr


Lili St.Cyr on stage, November 1951.
Photographed by Edward Clark for Life Magazine.