1940s paintings

USO Drawing of Carole 1945

Mary Sullivan

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Let us have homes crowned with the clambering vine, amid the cooling shade of trees, surrounded with the verdant lawn, with pendant berries, with golden fruits, and cluster of purple grapes. Homes graced with pictures, refined by books, and gladdened with song. Homes in which there shall be no scorching blasts of passion, no polar storms of coldness and hate. Homes in which the wife and mother shall not lose all her attractive charms by unremitting drudgery and toil, nor the husband starve…

Sir Luke Fildes (1843-1927), The Village Wedding, 1883. Fildes himself was married to the artist Fanny Woods When I was young and slightly less foolish, I once had a brief fling with an extremely talented woman painter from one of those Western European countries who told me, “Don’t get your hopes up.” So I didn’t. I’ve always done what a woman tells me to do, starting with my mother. This artist went on to an exciting career back home and I stayed lost in a fog stateside. Probably would…

Mrs Philip Astley, (née Madeleine Carroll, 1906-1987)