Thursday, May 26, 2011

Happy Birthday
JOHN WAYNE
May 26, 1907 ~ June 11, 1979

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5 comments:

Ron Scheer said...

Wow, what a collection. Such great poster art in the 1930s. And I'd forgotten that "Duke" was originally John Wayne's horse...Big thanks!

4:16 AM
Tamfos said...

A fitting tribute to the Duke. Thanks!

5:37 PM
Gojira2006 said...

A fabulous collection & tribute to The Duke . . . !

7:38 PM
borky said...

Mr. Door Tree, in the past people've given me titchy, postage stamp sized images of people they want portraits painted of, often much smaller than the original photo, not to mention out of focus; and one of the earliest lessons I learned was people don't want accurate depictions, they want a sort of caricature based on the vague and fuzzy image they carry round in their head.

I say this in defence of the artists here, whose representations often barely look like John Wayne the icon, yet're clearly accurate copies of the photos they're based on.

I'm also struck by the enormously ruddy, almost clown-like red cheeks many images seem to have.

Since, in all likelihood the original photos were b/w, is this evidence these particular artists were on set and actually witnessed the performers in their movie equivalent of stage make-up?

10:55 AM
film_maven said...

Incredible!!

8:23 AM

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