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27th January 2025
This week on the Post we have the work of Canadian photographer Margaret Watkins (1884-1969), one of the first art photographers to work in advertising. Her life story is fascinating, from a cultivated and initially prosperous family life in Ontario, to success and recognition in New York City, to later obscurity in Glasgow. This is 'Untitled (Verna Skelton Posing for Cutex Advertisement), New York, 1924' which illustrates Margaret Watkins' technical and artistic skills. It blends aspects of Jacobean and Pre-Raphaelite portraiture, exquisite textiles, and the element of surprise that this is in fact an advert for nail-care products.
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