Starr Wood
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Starr Wood
1870-1944
Very Thick, or, Too Much of an Auburn Beard
1894.
Pen and black ink on card.
7 1/2 x 3 11/16 inches (190 x 94 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2237
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Notes:
Drawing for a humorous illustration published without caption in The studio, 1894, v. 3, p. 64.
Initialed "S.W. 94" at lower right.
Title from unpublished caption.
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Captioned in pencil, "Very Thick, or, Too Much of an Auburn Beard"; in ink on verso, "Starr Wood"; guide marks in pencil on recto and verso.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Parody in the style of Aubrey Beardsley, showing a barber standing over a bearded customer in a chair, with a mans head at lower right, shorn to stubble with his face covered with band aids.
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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