By Italian Artist : Titina Rota (1889 - 1978)

1920’s magazine cover by Ernesto García Cabral (1890-1968), Mexican graphic artist.

Erté aka Romain De Tirtoff, Spring Rain, 1920s

1920 Art Deco Sunburst design, Le Bonheur du Jour, by George Barbier. 

A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used. Traditional sunburst motifs usually show the rays narrowing as they get further from the centre; from the later 19th century they often get wider, as in the Japanese Rising Sun Flag, which is more appropriate in optical terms. (x) 

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May the Fourth be with you!

Here’s a glamorous Rodian lady to celebrate, a.k.a doodle-that-turned-into-less-of-a-doodle.

Erté [Romain de Tirtoff] • (Russian-French, 1892-1990) • Angel Harpist in Blues • Design for the revue Rhapsody in Blue • Apollo Theater, New York City • 1926 • © Sevenarts Ltd

Symphony in Black • 1920s • Gouache on paper

La Prêtresse • Costume design for the production, Les Rois des Légendes • 1919

De La Fumee - 1922

by Thayaht pseudonym of artist and designer Ernesto Michahelles (1893–1959) best known for his revolutionary design of the TuTa and his involvement with the Italian Futurist movement.

Ivy and Freckle in the Art Deco wilds. Ivy might have nearly danced them to death. Prints available in the Lackadaisy Online Shop

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The mice belong to the people now. God, I love the public domain.

Inspired by that time singer, dancer, actress and black cultural icon Josephine Baker was sailing across the Atlantic on the SS Normandie to take part in the Ziegfeld Follies Broadway musical revue. She heard her equally famous friend, Billie Burke, was on the ship as well, who was not only Ziegfeld’s widow but also a popular actress - you'd probably know her as Glinda the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz. Josephine invited her to dinner and Billie was said to have agreed.

Josephine entered the first-class dining room in a gown by Erté, causing the room to burst into a standing ovation. Billie arrived shortly after, her entrance gaining an even warmer reception than that of Josephine's. But when she approached Josephine's table, Billie gave her nothing more than a look of distaste and coldly passed her by. But Josephine appeared unbothered and finished her dinner alone. Afterwards, she climbed the grand staircase and caused the audience to once again erupt into another standing ovation as she flashed them a dazzling smile, allegedly saying, “I assume she belongs to the black-hating race.”

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'Sappho Comes!' Jazz : a Flippant Magazine, January 15,1925

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Art Deco illustration by George Barbier, Visez au cœur, belles dames ! (Aim For the Heart, Beautiful Ladies !), Le Bonheur du Jour, ou Les Graces a la Mode, 1920. (Paris: Chez Meynial, 1924).

George Barbier, Les Belles Sauvagesses de 1920, detail, Le Bonheur du Jour, ou Les Graces a la Mode. 1920.

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Art Deco Couple In Front of Black and White Art Deco Architecture, c. 1930s. Charles Perry Weimer. Ink on paper.