Norm van Maastricht | July 27, 2009
“Paper Dolls by Vann” is how I signed my artwork… This is Evelyn Nesbit. A beautiful, young, turn of the (19th) century lass. An in demand artist’s model, she gained fame as one of the “Gibson Girls” by modeling for Charles Dana Gibson a noted illustrator of the day. She had several affairs, most notably [...]
Norm van Maastricht | July 26, 2009
Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails… The Mating Dance is a series of observations of human nature in pursuit of (more or less) romantiic endeavor They are not in any [...]
Norm van Maastricht | July 18, 2009
Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails… The Doorman door•man (dôrmn, -mn, dr-) n. A man employed to attend the entrance of a hotel, apartment house, or other building. bouncer [...]
Norm van Maastricht | July 12, 2009
Another segment of a project The Rise and Fall of a Saloon In The Latter Part off The Twentieth Century. These excerpts are not chronological. In fact very little logic prevails… As I said in other missives, it got so blues bands just didn’t cut it at The Bar. There were, of course, [...]
Norm van Maastricht | July 5, 2009
I have to apokogize for the scan here…it is fuzzy but I can’t re-shoot it. A most remarkable bit of business for me. A guy brought me a tear sheet from a magazine and asked me to paint the girl. I got it done in four hours. Delivered it to him still damp. I believe [...]
