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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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This is "John the Shoemaker" with a female looking on.
That really is a superb sketch. The woman has that washed out, scraped back look so common in the early 60s in women who always claimed they could never do a thing with their hair, while "John" needs to do nothing with his as he mends her tart trotters in an indifferently appointed kitchen. Please note the six o'clock shadow on the upper lip and the eye lashes. It all captures a moment now lost to history in an England only then slowly emerging from the austerity and deprivation of the Great Depression and WWII. Quite brilliant drawing.
Like a scene from a kitchen sink drama of the British new wave film and their depiction of working-class men. Samuelson made several sketches of John the shoemaker in 1956, perhaps a discreet infatuation. :)
That really is a superb sketch. The woman has that washed out, scraped back look so common in the early 60s in women who always claimed they could never do a thing with their hair, while "John" needs to do nothing with his as he mends her tart trotters in an indifferently appointed kitchen. Please note the six o'clock shadow on the upper lip and the eye lashes. It all captures a moment now lost to history in an England only then slowly emerging from the austerity and deprivation of the Great Depression and WWII. Quite brilliant drawing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your informed and detailed commentary. I have now added "tart trotters" to my vocabulary.
DeleteLike a scene from a kitchen sink drama of the British new wave film and their depiction of working-class men. Samuelson made several sketches of John the shoemaker in 1956, perhaps a discreet infatuation. :)
ReplyDeleteI get the feeling from some of these drawings that there was more than goo-goo looks passing back and forth.
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