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Friday, February 1, 2013

The Picnic

Because I will be out of touch for the next two months, I hope you will understand that I feel you will enjoy this old (1916) photo of my family so I'm publishing one more for this week's Flashback.

We always got a big kick seeing that these dressed up people had fun eating and drinking and enjoying a road trip and picnic. It explains itself.

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My mother is the baby, and I have no idea who took this photo.

click here for more flashbacks:

http://seasidesimplicity.blogspot.com/2013/01/flahsback-friday.html

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Long Lost Sculpture

My mother submitted photos of me to a library solicitation for consideration in the choosing of a model for a well known sculptor and artist of the times.

Artist: Haynsworth Baldrey - 1885-1946

Collections

Location: Art & Artist files at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/ National Portrait Gallery Library

DATA: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Newspaper clipping (was glued into scrapbook and then later torn out)

He sent this letter with a photo of the finished art

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Back of photo

Fountain Figure

Go here for more on Haynsworth Baldrey

http://nookworm-oldstuff.blogspot.com/2013/01/haynsworth-baldrey.html

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http://seasidesimplicity.blogspot.com/

This is all the biological information about Mr. Baldrey, I could find to date:

Methods

* Printmaking, Graphic Design

* Sculpture, Sculptor

Media

* Etching, Etcher

Associations

* National Sculpture Society

Some Exhibitions

* National Sculpture Society

* Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Chronology

* Early 20th Century Before 1950

And these are the only photos of his works with some information I have been able to find (without joining a website and paying for more detailed and informative knowledge and enlightenment!

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885-1946). Young Boy, bronze

Young Boy, bronze verdigris bronze figure of child seated on rock, signed in cast "Haynsworth Baldrey 1928," 21 1/2 in. H.

HAYNSWORTH BALDREY, LISTED NJ, "Flat Brook Valley Winter" Water Color, signed W/ EXHIBITION LABEL

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885-1946). "View of the Washington Monument Looking Down Charles Street, Baltimore" etching, signed "Haynsworth Baldrey" Ir, 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in., framed.

Haynsworth Baldrey (American, 1885 to 1946), an oil on canvas painting, winter landscape scene titled verso Rhododendrons Winter, signed lower right H. Baldrey and verso on stretcher and canvas Haynsworth Baldrey and Newton, N.J. 1938.

Haynsworth Baldrey, American, 1885-1946, Baltimore Flower Mart, etching, 6 x 8 in., framed (no photo)

Saturday, January 26, 2013

66 Years Ago

In 1947 I was visiting my grandmother and drawing all sorts of images. At 11 years old, I loved to draw and color. Thankfully, my mother saved this in my "packet" of photos, report cards, certificates and art.

Today, I was looking through the packet, getting lots of laughs when reading the teacher comments on the report cards, and came across this drawing. It was on really old and thin paper, looked like plain store wrapping, but the thing that got my attention was the LAMP! I don't know how the pertinent information came to be on the bottom of the drawing, bit it definitely looks like my grandma.

Yes, I have that same old and useful reading lamp right in the cabin living area. It has traveled many miles and had become a part of several homes before becoming now at rest here. It IS the same lamp, I just know it. I remember it being in the home I lived in when I was a teenager.