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Book John La Gatta

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  • Author : Jill Bossert
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  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780942604825
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book John La Gatta written by Jill Bossert and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glamour, grace, and beauty epitomized John La Gatta's work and life. This book tells the extraordinary story of the artist's career and the loving partnership he shared with Florence, his wife of fifty-eight years. As one looks at La Gatta's illustrations from the 1920s and 1930s, one cannot help but feel the nostalgic tug of a time when a life of elegance and glamour was the fantasy harbored by the American masses. What was fantasy for the many, however, was reality for only a select few. While America was in the grip of the Great Depression, John La Gatta's ability to portray the well-bred, the refined, and the sensual afforded him a life that reflected the characters he created for the pages of America's most popular magazines.John La Gatta's story is classically American -- an immigrant's successful rise to wealth and fame by dint of his talent, ambition, some luck and extremely hard work. As a small child, La Gatta moved from Naples to New York's rough-and-tumble Lower East side, where his early aptitude in art was recognized and nurtured, so that by his teens he was already a working illustrator. When he moved to Cleveland to join one of that city's burgeoning art studios, he met Florence Olds, an art student herself, whom he wooed and wed, and whose judgment he would forever trust.Although La Gatta's early advertising work often featured working men in overalls, he longed to illustrate women. Taking a six-month sabbatical, he produced a portfolio filled with revolutionary illustrations that would change his life and career, making him one of the most sought after artists in the world. His illustrations of sensuous, elegant women in posh settings would fill the pages of topperiodicals, such as the Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan among many others. Later in his distinguished career, La Gatta became a respected teacher, and was inducted into the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in 1984.As their son, John Hawley Olds La Gatta writes in his preface, To say my parents were in relentless pursuit of beauty and art would be an understatement; it was their world and their life. This book is to honor their wonderful union and to share their story with others. It is a love story, the story of an artist's life, and provides a glimpse of their glamorous world.

Book La Gatta  John

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  • Pages : pages

Download or read book La Gatta John written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The folder may include clippings, announcements, small exhibition catalogs, and other ephemeral items.

Book The Studio

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  • Release : 1925
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book The Studio written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life

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  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life

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  • Release : 1933
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  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Release : 1937-08-02
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  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1937-08-02 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Printers  Ink Monthly

Download or read book Printers Ink Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac

Download or read book Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchant Vessels of the United States

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Woman s Home Companion

Download or read book Woman s Home Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merchant Vessels of the United States

Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by United States. Coast Guard and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 1234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The record of each copyright registration listed in the Catalog includes a description of the work copyrighted and data relating to the copyright claim (the name of the copyright claimant as given in the application for registration, the copyright date, the copyright registration number, etc.).

Book Fables of Mr  John Gay  with an Italian translation  by Gian Francesco Giorgetti

Download or read book Fables of Mr John Gay with an Italian translation by Gian Francesco Giorgetti written by John Gay and published by . This book was released on 1773 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edition bilingue italien-anglais

Book American Art Directory

Download or read book American Art Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical material formerly included in the directory is issued separately as Who's who in American art, 1936/37-

Book American Art Annual

Download or read book American Art Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  New Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1930 with total page 2754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elinor Glyn as Novelist  Moviemaker  Glamour Icon and Businesswoman

Download or read book Elinor Glyn as Novelist Moviemaker Glamour Icon and Businesswoman written by Vincent L. Barnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of the authorial and cross-media practices of the English novelist Elinor Glyn (1864-1943), Elinor Glyn as Novelist, Moviemaker, Glamour Icon and Businesswoman examines Glyn’s work as a novelist in the United Kingdom followed by her success in Hollywood where she adapted her popular romantic novels into films. Making extensive use of newly available archival materials, Vincent L. Barnett and Alexis Weedon explore Glyn’s experiences from multiple perspectives, including the artistic, legal and financial aspects of the adaptation process. At the same time, they document Glyn’s personal and professional relationships with a number of prominent individuals in the Hollywood studio system, including Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg. The authors contextualize Glyn’s involvement in scenario-writing in relationship to other novelists in Hollywood, such as Edgar Wallace and Arnold Bennett, and also show how Glyn worked across Europe and America to transform her stories into other forms of media such as plays and movies. Providing a new perspective from which to understand the historical development of both British and American media industries in the first half of the twentieth century, this book will appeal to historians working in the fields of cultural and film studies, publishing and business history.