Solo

W&B sprinkled some solo shots in their publications, as in this archery shot.

 

Shooter

"Death to all sea gulls!"

 

Archery in Art

Today we look at archers in a variety of art media, 

starting with this bronze sculpture by Otto Lessing.

 

Thomas Nast

American artist Thomas Nast did this drawing of a man with an imaginary bow.

 

Bronze Medal

An online auction website says that this is an early modern Olympic bronze medal, but they gave no date or other provenance.  I would be very careful before bidding on such an item.

 

Mueller Crefeld

 

This 1920 piece is by Mueller Crefeld.

Louvre

Detail from a Greek ceramic in the Louvre dated 510 BC.

Signed by Epiktetos as painter and by Pamphaios as potter.

 

Millais

My source says that The Archer by Millais is from 1847.

 

Julius Schmidt

Nice derriere on this one by Julius Schmidt.

 

Hunting Scene

This 1903 hunting scene is Bogenschutzen (Archers) by Fritz Boehle.

 

Johann Schadow

This early 19th Century relief in bronze is by Johann Schadow.

It's another example of the imaginary bow.

 

Ceramic Plates

               The ceramic plate above was designed by Samara for the Montieres Company in 1929.

                Below, we have a Swedish piece celebrating a Stockholm archery competition in 1942.

 

 

Hercules the Archer

This is a copy of Antoine Bourdelle's Heracles the archer from 1909.

 

Victor Mueller

Our final archery art piece is an academic drawing by Victor Mueller from 1847.

 

Ernst Voller

This chubby archer was photographed by Ernst Voller in 1930.

 

Archer

All it would take for something awful to happen when shooting 

an arrow at that angle is a sudden gust of wind.

 

Jim Stryker

Jim Stryker posed in an archery themed set by Bob Anthony.

 

Archery

Bruce took along a bow and arrow for his outdoor photo shoot with Bill Lamm.

 

Archery

Instead of shooting off fireworks for the Fourth of July, 

let's do arrows instead. We start with a pair of nudists.

 

Tan Line

This guy seems to be tanned only from the waist up,

something I've heard called "ditch digger tan."