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“Anna May Moaney” by Ruth Starr Rose (American) - Oil on Masonite / 1930 - Water’s Edge Museum (Oxford, Maryland) #WomenInArt #RuthStarrRose #WatersEdgeMuseum #BlackPortraiture #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #BlueskyArt #AmericanArtist #AmericanArt #1930sArt #WomenPaintingWomen
Painted in 1930, this portrait belongs to a remarkable group of paintings in which American artist Ruth Starr Rose recorded the daily lives of Black families on Maryland’s Eastern Shore at a time when mainstream imagery often relied on caricature. The sitter, Anna May Moaney, worked as a domestic worker and Rose depicts her with the visual language typically reserved for “privileged” subjects including careful modeling, a poised posture, and psychological depth that suggests self-possession. Anna May is presented as a young Black woman with almost glowing brown skin shown from the chest up, turned slightly to our left. Her short hair is styled in glossy finger-waves, with a curl resting on her forehead and a bright red bow tucked behind her left ear. Wide, amber-brown almond eyes look off to our left giving her expression an alertness as well as calm authority. Soft light models her cheekbones and the bridge of her nose. Rose uses warm tans and olive shadows rather than harsh contrast, so her face seems to glow from within. She wears a patterned dress in muted blues and rose tones with ruffled white sleeves and neckline, edged in pale yellow. Behind her, a pale grid of a window and a wash of rust-red wall are loosely brushed, keeping attention on Anna May’s steady presence. The Water’s Edge Museum notes her “strong outward gaze,” and links her self-assurance to Gertrude Stein’s character Melanctha Herbert. Later nicknamed “the Black Mona Lisa,” Moaney’s look holds the room as not decorative nor compliant, but sovereign. Rose lived fewer than twenty miles from Oxford and returned again and again to families in Copperville and Unionville, building an archive of work, worship, and family life. Today, the portrait helps ask us to widen the story of who “founded” or “built” America and recognize those whose labor and lineage shaped the nation, even when the record often tried to forget them.
December 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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“Self Portrait” by Mary Adshead (British) - Oil on canvas / 1931 - Graves Gallery, Sheffield Museums (Sheffield, England) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #MaryAdshead #Adshead #SheffieldMuseums #GravesGallery #selfportrait #WomanArtist #WomensArt #WomenArtists #BritishArtist #BlueskyArt #1930sArt
A female artist sits close to us in a cramped studio, body turned toward an unseen canvas while her face swivels directly to meet our gaze. She is a light-skinned woman in her late twenties, with dark hair tucked under a white woven hat banded in glossy black. A slim red cord necklace circles her neck above a ruffled white blouse and spotted grey dress, wrapped in a black coat trimmed with a sharp white fur collar. One hand steadies the edge of the easel, the other holds a fine brush mid-stroke, poised between decisions. Behind her, a red mural study glows on the wall, echoed by a red curtain on the right that presses in on the scene. A wooden chair, paintbox, books, and a metal canister cluster at her side, quiet evidence of sustained work. Smooth light, crisp edges and her unblinking dark eyes convey a composed, unsentimental self-scrutiny. Painted in 1931, the year of her first child, this self-portrait shows Mary Adshead claiming space as a modern professional artist at a moment when family life and public commissions were pulling equally on her time. Trained at London’s Slade School under Henry Tonks, Adshead had already made her name with ambitious murals, from a boys’ club in Wapping and “A Tropical Fantasy” island to satirical racing scenes for Lord Beaverbrook and panels for the British Empire Exhibition. Here, the theatricality of those schemes is pared back with a stylish hat and fur collar signaling metropolitan confidence, yet the tight framing forces us to confront the alert, slightly guarded woman who controls how she is seen. Adshead would go on to design posters and stamps, create wartime murals for canteens and British Restaurants, and champion women’s work through groups such as the Women’s International Art Club. Now in the Graves Gallery collection in Sheffield and included in later retrospectives of her art, this self portrait painting helps restore Adshead as a key figure in interwar British mural and portrait painting.
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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“The Round Pond” by Esther Borough Johnson (British) - Oil on canvas / 1934 - Wolverhampton Art Gallery (England) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #EstherBoroughJohnson #WomenArtists #ModernBritishArt #art #ArtText #BritishArt #DogArt #1930sArt #WolverhamptonArtGallery #blueskyArt #WomensArt #BritishArtist
Painted in 1934, this scene of Kensington Gardens captures interwar urban leisure as distinctly feminine, sociable, and modern. Two women settle on the close-cropped grass beside London’s Round Pond, their pale dresses and hats catching the milky summer light. The nearer figure, in a softly patterned gown with a red sash and bow, turns toward us with a composed, knowing half-smile. Behind her, a friend lounges in a bright blue dress and brimmed hat playing with a small white and black terrier who stands upright to beg for food at the edge of a white picnic cloth. A pink teapot, cups, and sliced fruit sit carefully arranged in the foreground. Beyond, the still pond, toy sailing boats, strolling figures, and dense green trees complete a shimmering, open-air London park scene. The women’s relaxed postures, fashionable dress, and companionable dog suggest autonomy and pleasure in public space, while the tea service and play of boats tie domestic ritual to cosmopolitan outdoors. Johnson’s light, broken brushwork and high-keyed palette emphasize movement and reflected light rather than strict detail, aligning her with contemporaries who translated Impressionist-inflected color into British park and garden subjects. The painting invites us into a gentle spectacle of everyday joy at a moment when such calm was historically fragile. Esther Borough Johnson, a British painter trained at Birmingham School of Art, Chelsea Art School, and Hubert von Herkomer’s school at Bushey, built her career with portraits, genre scenes, and floral studies that foregrounded women, children, and cultivated landscapes. A regular exhibitor at major London societies, she negotiated a male-dominated art world while working in close dialogue with her husband, Ernest Borough Johnson, yet maintained a distinct sensibility rooted in observational intimacy and luminous color. Her style was attentive to place, affectionate towards sitters, and quietly highlighted women’s everyday lives and leisure.
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
A spooky Halloween version of Dusty!! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
October 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
She got herself in a sticky situation! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
October 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
She loves cake. :3 #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
September 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
Dusty enjoying her day off! :3 #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
August 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
A minimalist version of Dusty! Kinda looks like a children’s book illustration #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
August 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
magicmurphy2002.bsky.social
First up is my OC Dusty! A cheerful and chipper train conductor! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
August 27, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Introducing El Gato Gris y La Pícara Justina. Mago de Matanzas!
#art #occultart #stagemagic #afrocuban #weirdart #vintageposter #witchsky #symbolicart #magick #illustration #picara #1930sart #tarot
June 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
Thought I’d redraw this vintage Mickey Mouse poster with Dusty! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
June 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
She’s flying!! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
May 19, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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La femme tatouée
Médias mixtes sur papier
#TattooedWomen #1930sArt #MixedMediaArt #InkAndPaper #VintageTattoo #TattooArt #RetroTattoo #TattooedLady #ArtDeLaRue #TraditionalTattoo #OldSchoolTattoo #WomanArt #TattooCulture #ArtisticWomen #TattooedBeauty #HistoricalTattoo #WomenInArt #InkedArt
May 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
Working hard or hardly working? #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
April 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Introducing the Eric Ravilious High Street Collection (No. 1) – £5.99 for six rather good postcards depicting high street scenes from the late 1930s.
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#ericravilious #ericravilious #ravilious #postcards #1930sart #highstreet #rathergoodart
April 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
Stupid April Fools sketch. #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
April 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
She’s having a fun night out! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
March 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
A massive redesign for Dusty! She’s now a female character, and here’s her reference page! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
March 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
Quite the artist! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
February 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Jean Hugo
La Conversation au Puits
1934
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#JeanHugo #1930sart #LaConversationauPuits #art
February 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
It’s been a very busy day for Dusty #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
January 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
magicmurphy02.bsky.social
It’s Dusty!! #characterdesign #rubberhose #rubberhoseanimation #rubberhoseartstyle #1930sart #oc #ocart #ocdrawing #cuteart
January 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Dorette (1933)
By Gerald Leslie Brockhurst

#art #painting #portrait #1930sart #geraldbrockhurst #britishart
December 31, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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Snow at the Ukimido, Katada' by Tsuchiya Koitsu (1934). Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870–1949) was known for his expertise in creating atmospheric landscapes, often focusing on light and shadow.
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#TsuchiyaKoitsu #JapaneseArt #Ukimido #WoodblockPrint #1930sArt #Japan #ArtHistory #BlueskyArt
December 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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Head of young Parisian (c1930)
By Gerardo Sacristán Torralba

#art #painting #spanishart #paris #1930sart
December 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM