Talk About 'Winter Sports'!

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Talk About 'Winter Sports'!

Edward Tennyson Reed (1860-1933)

Price

£1,450

Signed

Inscribed 'we can do a bit of "curling" at home.' and with picture captions

Medium

Pencil

Dimensions

8 ¾ x 11 ½ inches

Illustrated

The Bystander, 18 January 1922, page 115

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1837-2011', November 2011 - January 2012, Chris Beetles Gallery, London, no 91

The post-war period of the early 1920s brought with it great economic prosperity, and saw the rise of the ‘flapper girl’. Inspired by the fashions of Coco Chanel and American jazz music, these young women pioneered a collection of new hairstyles, such as the ‘Bob’, ‘Eton Crop’ and ‘Finger Curls’.
Inspired by this new ‘era’ of hairstyles, ET Reed demonstrates the new popularity for curls on writer and humorist, Israel Zangwill (1864-1926), Secretary of State for the Colonies and future Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874-1965), stage and silent film star Owen Nares (1888-1943), novelist and journalist G K Chesterton (1874-1936) and sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959).

In June 1921, the International Olympic Committee granted its patronage to a first Winter Sports week. This became the first Winter Olympic Games, held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, the same year the Summer Olympics were held in Paris.

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