{"id":4514,"date":"2009-02-27T01:56:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T01:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2010-10-14T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T16:43:40","slug":"butterfly-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/27\/butterfly-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Butterfly women"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Flapper by Frank X Leyendecker, Life magazine (1922).<\/em><\/p>\n

When I posted this splendid cover last July<\/a> I said that I ought to make a post of Butterfly Women, so here is one. Don’t expect this to be at all comprehensive, women with butterfly wings are as legion as mermaids, these are merely a couple of favourites.<\/p>\n

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Lo\u00efe Fuller by Koloman Moser (1901).<\/em><\/p>\n

The ultimate butterfly woman must be Lo\u00efe Fuller<\/a> (1862\u20131928) whose Serpentine Dance<\/em> inspired a host of fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> paintings and sculptures and was also filmed by the Lumi\u00e8re brothers in 1896. The Internet Archive has a tinted copy of the latter<\/a> while Europa Film Treasures has an Italian short from 1907, Farfale<\/em> (Butterflies<\/em>)<\/a> with a troupe of dancers (also hand-tinted) imitating the Fuller style.<\/p>\n

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Life magazine cover by Wladyslaw Benda (1923).<\/em><\/p>\n

These two pictures were discovered via the wonderful Golden Age Comic Book Stories<\/a> who always has the best scans of vintage art. The Life<\/em> covers are from the humour periodical which expired in 1936, not the later photojournalism magazine. For more Life<\/em> covers, look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Dragonfly by Alberto Vargas (1922).<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, so it’s called Dragonfly<\/em> but those look more like butterfly wings to me. A delicate piece of Vargas cheesecake which echoes the flapper theme of the Leyendecker picture. This Flickr user<\/a> has a whole set of butterfly girl cigarette cards but we don’t get to see them properly without paying. If anyone has seen them elsewhere, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Mermaids<\/a>
\n\u2022 Wladyslaw Benda<\/a>
\n\u2022 Vintage magazine art II<\/a>
\n\u2022 Vintage magazine art<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Flapper by Frank X Leyendecker, Life magazine (1922). When I posted this splendid cover last July I said that I ought to make a post of Butterfly Women, so here is one. Don’t expect this to be at all comprehensive, women with butterfly wings are as legion as mermaids, these are merely a couple … Continue reading “Butterfly women”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,57,7,48,11,44],"tags":[258,136,255,1213,946,256,257],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-fashion","category-film","category-illustrators","category-miscellaneous","category-painting","tag-alberto-vargas","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-frank-x-leyendecker","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-koloman-moser","tag-loie-fuller","tag-wladyslaw-benda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-1aO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}