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Saturday, August 6, 2022

Mantlepiece


I feel like I should recognize the model in this 1943 photo, but I don't

 

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  1. I have another shot of this model on that mantle, but sitting on its ledge instead of lying down. My info says "Francis Burton Harrison III - 5 St Lukes Place, NYC - 1943." I don't remember where I got the info, so I can't be 100% certain it's correct.

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    1. That is correct 2W. I have the same photo of him on the edge of the mantel, and even the date matches. Thanks!

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  2. Lovely mantle piece; never occurred to me to have one like that.

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  3. The book "Collaboration: The Photographs of Paul Cadmus, Margaret French and Jared French" has several other photos from the same photo shoot. All of them identify the model as Francis Harrison, with the place as NYC and the year as 1943. One of the photos also has Donald Windham in it with Mr. Harrison.
    -Tom

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  4. Thanks to 2W and Tom for identifying the model as Francis Burton 'Kiko' Harrison as I didn't recognise him here. 'Kiko' also posed for a number of photos with George Platt Lynes, a particular favourite of mine being the one that you posted last December of him laying nude on a settee in Lynes' living room.

    Peter

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    1. Kiko was the son and namesake of Francis Burton Harrison, Sr., an American politician and Governor General of the Philippines in the early 20th C. Kiko met Lynes through his half sister, Barbara who ran a small publishing house and was married to Glenway Wescott's brother. It was a tight and highly interwoven social group.

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    2. Thanks Jerry. I'd forgotten about the connection to Lynes via Barbara and her husband Lloyd Wescott. The connections continue as Kiko married Dora Maxwell who was Lynes' studio manager in 1943 shortly before joining the US Navy in the submarine service. Kiko majored in Physics at Princeton and after the was he moved to Los Alamos in New Mexico where he worked on various Government projects. He died in 2014.

      Peter

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    3. Los Alamos? Wow, that's a strange and interesting place.

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    4. A long way in all respects from New York City and the artistic circles around Lynes, PaJaMa etc.

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