Twirling and Bending, Wonderful c. 1940s Snapshot of Two USO Dancers with View of Trees Behind matchstick stars founded in 1954 and still

founded in 1954 and still in operation

as it's one of my favorite new old things

the amazing old chippy green paint still hanging on to it is barely if at all chipping off any more

This folk art miniature watercolor portrait I believe is American

Strung for hanging

Twirling and Bending, Wonderful c. 1940s Snapshot of Two USO Dancers with View of Trees Behind matchstick stars founded in 1954 and stillI love this photo. The seller I purchased it from described it as dancers at a USO event, WW2 era, and surely this dancer with skirt aloft must have pleased the troops! But while that fresh faced young woman and the twirl of her raised skirt are gorgeous, what really makes this photo for me the is the presence of the second dancer, back turned and body bent in a movement that feels much more Martha Graham than Marilyn Monroe. And that very modernist