All Puppet Orchestra - Large Restored Photo Print - Jazz Age - Art Deco - Streamline Modern - Russell Patterson s Personettos

Treasures from THE FILM & THEATRE COLLECTION at The Willing Mind.  By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.

Print size 20 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 20 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.  For further easy, inexpensive framing options, please feel free to contact us.

From the Jack Benny comedy ARTISTS & MODELS, here featuring Ben Blue with Russell Patterson's Personettos.

This is on my must see list.  Not only the first film featuring Jack Benny in the lead role, but lots of segments spotlighting some great popular cartoonists and illustrators of the day including Peter Arno and Rube Goldberg.  Yeah!

Remarkably, the film makers invited 1920s and 30s cultural colossus, now entirely obscure flapper and pinup artist Russell Patterson to create a puppet orchestra and choreograph a big stage number.  Nutsville!

As big as John Held in visually defining an era of youthful fashion and exuberance, there was even a 'Patterson Girl' representing the style of the time, just like the Petty Girl 15 years later, and the Gibson Girl 15 years earlier..

SHIPPING

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.

Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.