Russell Patterson
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Russell Patterson was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style know
Russell Patterson arrives in Hollywood in 1937 for the filming of Artists and Models.
One of Patterson's rough scenic designs, for the film Give Me a Sailor (1938).
Russell Patterson's Mamie (December 13, 1953)
"Where there's smoke there's fire" by Russell Patterson, an example of the "girl-goddess" that influenced many artists.
Flapper
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Flappers were a subculture of young Western women prominent after the First World War and through the 1920s who wore knee-length skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain
Russell Patterson
…and scenic designer. Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper. Russell H. Patterson was born in Omaha, Nebraska. Although he claimed he knew at age 17 that he wanted to be a magazine cover artist, he took a…
Actress Louise Brooks (1927)
A flapper on a ship (1929)
Violet Romer in a flapper dress c. 1915
An advertisement for the 1920 silent film comedy The Flapper, with Olive Thomas, before the look of the flapper had started to coalesce.