#Maud Hunt Squire

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Ethel Mars (1876-1959) & Maud Hunt Squire (1873-1954), ''A Child's Garden of Verses'' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1902 Source

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Artwork: Woman with a Monkey, 1909, which may be a self-portrait

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Ethel Mars (September 19, 1876 – March 23, 1959) was an American woodblock print artist, known for her white-line woodcut prints, also known as Provincetown Prints, and a children's book illustrator. She had a lifelong relationship with fellow artist Maud Hunt Squire, with whom she lived in Paris and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

“Woman with a Monkey” was featured in the April 1909 issue of Harper’s Weekly. This painting, possibly a self-portrait of Mars, now hangs at the Springfield Art Association source

Ethel Mars (center) with her mother and aunt c.1898, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC.

Maud Hunt Squire and Ethel Mars (right), Springfield, Illinois, c.1898, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC.

Maud Hunt Squire (January 30, 1873 – October 25, 1954) was an American painter and printmaker. She had a lifelong relationship with artist Ethel Mars, with whom she traveled and lived in the United States and France. Via W

Ethel Mars, Provincetown, c.1918, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC.

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Baiting-Up, 1921 Maud Hunt Squire

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Early-twentieth century Paris was a hub of lesbian activity

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Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

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"Two men came down the garden path." W.H. Hyde, Reigate Squires (Harper’s Weekly) Characters: Cunningham Sr, Alec Cunningham

"Colonel Moran sprang forward with a snarl of rage." FD Steele, Empty House (Collier’s) Characters: Police, Sebastian Moran, Holmes

"He picked up his hunting-crop and struck Napoleon." FD Steele, Six Napoleons (Collier’s) Characters: Holmes

"The queer thing in the kitchen." FD Steele, Wisteria Lodge (Collier’s) Characters: PC Walters, Sgt Baynes, Holmes, Watson

"We ascended the stairs and viewed the body." Gilbert Holiday, Devil's Foot (The Strand) Characters: Holmes, Watson, Brenda Tregennis

"You'll only get yourself hurt," said the inspector. "Stand still, will you?" Walter Paget, Dying Detective (The Strand) Characters: Holmes,Watson, Culverton Smith, Lestrade

"Give it up, Jack! For my sake - for God's sake,  give it up!" Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Douglas/McMurdo, Ettie Shafter

"The wife was found in the grounds, late at night, with a revolver bullet through her brain." Alfred Gilbert, Thor Bridge (The Strand) Characters: Maria Gibson

"The woman turned her flushed and handsome face towards me." HK Elcock, Sussex Vampire (The Strand) Characters: Dolores, Robert and Mrs Ferguson

"The Adventure of the Three Gables" FD Steele, Three Gables (Liberty) Characters: Holmes

"I turned over the paper. This never came by post, where did you get it?" HK Elcock, Lion's Mane (The Strand) Characters: Maud Bellamy, Holmes, Ian Murdoch

"Holmes had lit his lantern." Frank Wiles, Shoscombe Old Place (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Holmes, John Mason

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The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

Cast: Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot, Nils Poppe, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hanson, Inga Landgré, Gunnel Lindblom, Bertil Anderberg, Anders Ek, Åke Fridell, Gunnar Olsson, Erik Strandmark. Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography: Gunnar Fischer. Production design: P.A. Lundberg. Film editing: Lennart Wallén. Music: Erik Nordgren.

Commentators have sometimes likened the plague that threatens the world of The Seventh Seal to the threat of nuclear annihilation, but I think that misses the point: For the medieval world, the Plague was a test of faith; for the modern world, the Bomb is a test of humanity. The Seventh Seal is, yes, much too talky: Epigrams about God and Death pile up on one another tiresomely. But it's still a great film, succeeding partly because of its setting in perhaps the last age of faith our civilization will ever know, which adds an urgency to the characters' wrangling with it. The key character in the film is not the knight, Antonius Block (Max von Sydow), despite the familiar images of him playing chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot), but his squire, Jöns (Gunnar Björnstrand), the sardonic commentator on the events in the film. Jöns is our surrogate, the skeptic with a decidedly modern view of his era's religious extremism, such as the Crusade he and the knight have just been on. What we're witnessing is the merciful escape from a god that for some reason Bergman's characters in later films like Through a Glass Darkly (1961) and The Silence (1953) keep hunting: the god of certainty -- the kind of certainty that breeds fanaticism and bigotry. In the end, the knight sacrifices himself to Death so that ordinary people -- the players Jof (Nils Poppe) and Mia (Bibi Andersson) and their child -- may live to continue their secular amusements that had earlier been interrupted by fanatics and flagellants. 

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Illustrations from The Heroes: or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Maud Hunt Squire & Ethel Mars (1901)

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Maud Hunt Squire - Andromeda crouched trembling on the rock waiting for what might befall, 1901.

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Untitled (1929). Maud Hunt Squire (American, 1873-1954). Watercolor and graphite on paper.

Squire met Ethel Mars, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life, at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Squire and Mars were great friends of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas while living in France, and the writer's poem "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene", believed to be the first such work to use the word "gay" to describe homosexuality, is meant to describe the couple.

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Maud Hunt Squire, The he hastened away, illustration for The Mysterious Prince

1908

From: Fairy Tales from Folk Lore

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Maud Hunt Squire (1873-1954) & Ethel Mars (1876-1959), ''The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales For My Children '' by Charles Kingsley, 1901 Source

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Lesbian Power Couples From History Who Got Shit Done

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Ethel Mars & Maud Hunt Squire (1894-1954)

These two American artists (top photo) met at the Cincinnati Art Academy in the 1890s and stayed together for 60 years, living for patches in France and in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Maud was known for her book illustrations and color etchings, Ethel for her painting, color woodblock prints and drawings. They collaborated on projects like illustrating the legendary Child’s Garden of Verses. The couple were regulars at Gertrude Stein’s salon in France (and the subject of her word portrait Miss Furr and Miss Skeene). Also, The New York Times says they “loved to behave outrageously.”

Ethel Williams & Ethel Waters (1910s-1920s)

“The Two Ethels” (second photo from top) met at the Alhambra Theater in Harlem — Ethel Waters was a popular blues singer and Ethel Williams was a dancer. They fell in love and summarily merged: Waters got Williams a job working at the cabaret where she worked, they lived together in Harlem and Waters took Williams with her on her first nationwide tour, where Williams would dance to warm up the crowd before Waters’ performances. In the touring revue Oh! Joy! they even did a little bit about being “partners” that winked at queer audience members while refusing mainstream identification. Waters’ managers at Black Swan Records manufactured gossip about Waters, once pushing a piece about how her recording contract stipulated that she couldn’t get married to explain her not having a male partner. Eventually, Ethel Williams left Waters and her job to marry a dancer named Clarence Dotson.

Harriet E. Giles and Sophia B. Packard (1855-1891)

Giles met Packard in in the mid-1850s when Giles was a student at the New Salem Academy in New Salem, Massachusetts, and Packard was the preceptor. They hit it off right away, and shortly thereafter shuttled off to Atlanta to start a school for Black women who had been newly released from slavery. Packard was the first president of the school, then known as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary and now known as Spelman College, when it opened its doors in 1888. Giles took over after Packard’s death in 1891. The two women (third photo from top) are now buried next to each other in Silver Lake Cemetery.

Mabel Hampton and Lilian Foster, 1932-1978

Mabel Hampton, born in 1902, had a tumultuous childhood that took her from North Carolina to New York City to New Jersey and eventually to a job dancing in Coney Island just as the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing. She performed with stars like Moms Mabley and Gladys Bently and lived openly as a lesbian, eventually giving up dancing and becoming a domestic worker — for the family of the now-famous Joan Nestle. She met Lillian Foster in 1932, and they were inseparable until Lilian’s death, living together on 169th street in the Bronx and calling each other husband and wife. They were active in the Gay Rights movement, ran their own laundering business, and worked together to collect and organize a wealth of documents, newspaper clippings, photographs and books, including programs from the opera performances she and Foster loved attending, that would help form the Lesbian Herstory Archives, of which Joan Nestle named Mabel a founding member. Mabel’s oral history was preserved by Joan in the archives. (Fourth photo from top)

Sallie Holley and Caroline Putnam (1848 – 1893)

Sallie and Caroline (bottom photo) met at good ol’ Oberlin College, and the noted “anti-slavery team” became agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society immediately after graduation. They traveled on the abolitionist lecture circuit, often along with the legendary Sojourner Truth. After the Civil War, Sallie stayed up North giving talks, raising money to educate freed slaves in the South, and Putnam went to Virginia to teach freed slaves, eventually starting The Holley School, which became America’s first settlement house. Sallie then joined Caroline in Lottsburg, where they integrated themselves with the community, operated their school year-round and unlike some future suffragettes, were dedicated to enabling, preserving and protecting the right of Black men to vote even when white women could not yet do so. Sallie died in 1893 and Caroline in 1917, at which point the school was deeded to an all-Black board of trustees and continued operating for decades.

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JANUARY 30: Maud Hunt Squire (1873-1954/5)

Hailing from Cincinnatti, Maud Hunt Squire was an American artist famous for her color woodcuts, the technique of which she developed under the guidance of Edna Boies Hopkins.

Maud’s parents died early in her life, but she didn’t forget their encouragements regarding her artistic career. At 21, she enrolled in the Cincinnati Art Academy; she notably studied under Lewis Henry Meakin and Frank Duveneck. She also met at that time fellow student Ethel Mars, with whom she became partners in art, travel, and life (of course Ethel is most often referred to as her ‘friend’ in many of the artist bios I’ve read of them, but we all know what that means). Both quickly launched their careers; in 1900 they were living in NYC, and in 1906, they’d settled in Paris.

Maud & Ethel’s passport photos, source

Once in Paris, they certainly enjoyed the freedom the capital afforded them at the beginning of the century. Within a few months of arriving in the city, Ethel apparently dyed her hair orange, and they’d wear “outrageous” makeup. But it was their talent as artists, even more than their ways of dressing and behaving, that garnered attention. So much so that they were repeatedly invited to Gertrude stein’s very own salon, at 27 rue de Fleurus, where Maud & Ethel met many other prominent artists of their time, like Picasso and Matisse.

There, they notably applied the bold use of color of the Fauvists to their own work (especially Mars’s), and extended their artistic repertoire to printmaking, which had become a popular medium for young artists, especially women, because it was less dangerous than etching and more suited to studio work compared to lithography.

Tea: Ethal Mars & Maud Squire, by Maud Hunt Squire

As WW1 approached, Maud & Ethel headed back to the US and settled in Provincetown, Massachusetts, which had become an artists' colony. There they continued developing printmaking techniques with other famous artists, notably innovating the “Provincetown Print” (a technique which consisted in using a single block for several impressions, separating the color fields by grooves that became white outlines in the finished image). In the 1920s they headed back to Europe, eventually settling in Vence on the French Riviera. There they remained active in the local artists' community, painting, drawing, and collaborating on children's book illustration and each again took up painting and drawing. With the onset of WWII, they had to go into hiding near Grenoble, but returned to their home, La Farigoule, in Vence once the war was over. They died within a few years of each other in the late 50s, and are buried together in Vence.

Fun fact: Gertrude Stein’s “Miss Furr & Miss Skeene” is actually a literary portrait of Maud & Ethel. The text hinges on the insistent repetition of the word ‘gay’ - this is widely believed by linguists to be one of the very first occurrences of the word in its contemporary meaning. (Which indicates two things: lesbians can totally say they’re gay, and saying that Maud & Ethel were gal pals is an understatement.)

Find more of Maud’s art here and here.

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Ethel Mars was an American woodblock print artist, known for her white-line woodcut prints, also known as Provincetown Prints, and a children's book illustrator. She had a lifelong relationship with fellow artist Maud Hunt Squire, with whom she lived in Paris and Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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牛逼家族第三代：承前启后

回「希腊罗马神话」 在 第一代故事 的开始和结尾我们提到过，珀尔修斯（Perseus）出生之前，有一个预言说他的外公，阿戈斯国王阿克里西俄斯（Acrisius）将会死在自己的孙子辈手上。 因此老头才把女儿和外孙赶走，也因此才造就了珀尔修斯的成长，也最终导致了老国王的事故死亡。 在希腊神话中，为了避免某个预言而采取的行动，大概率是导致那个预言终将成真的导火索。古希腊作家最爱的怪圈，百试百爽。 The death of king Acrisius, 1901, by Maud Hunt Squire (1873-1954) 虽说是无心之过，珀尔修斯还是很内疚。他不愿接任外公的王位，就跟他的表哥/表叔 Megapenthes 交换了王国：Megapenthes…

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#1914 HC The Holton-Curry Readers. Fifth Reader. Martha Adelaide Holton Mpls. Public Schools and Charles Madison Curry Prof. Lit. Indiana Beautifully illustrated by Maud Hunt Squire, this charming reader has selections by Emerson, Browning, Hands, Christian Andersen, Longfellow, Hawthorne and Gulliver's Travels by Swift. $15 plus shipping The binding is a bit loose, but overall, a clean and intact copy. Ex-schoolbook with associated markings and attachments. . . #vintageschoolbooks #school #books #vintageschool #retro #antiquetextbook #antiquebooks #antiques #schooldays📚 #schoolprimer #vintage #bookstagram #bookaneer #bookworm #bibliophile #instabook #bookcollector (at Dodge Center, Minnesota)