'Noel' by Mac Harshberger, 1922

Illustration by Mac Harshberger for the 1927 English edition of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier, translated by Hilaire Belloc.

I like Mac Harshberger, he is my favourite Tristan Artist ever. I tried doodling my Tristan more after the image of his Tristan. I quite like it, especially because it goes along well with the way I doodle.

Mac Harshberger   The tennis set    1928

Can feel myself slipping back into an art deco phase lets all look at mac harshbergers art again.

Mac Harshberger "Juggler"

Mac Harshberger

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One of Hollywood’s most famous motion pictures was a story about a giant ape that (literally) falls for a beautiful woman. March 11, 1933 cover by Rea Irvin. New Yorker film critic John Mosher found the premise of King Kong ridiculous, but he also found many of its scenes diverting, especially those featuring Kong and a number of prehistoric creatures (created by Marcel Delgado), miniature models…

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Illustration by Mac Harshberger (1900 – 1975). Source

Mac Harshberger, The Executioner, c. 1921-22; from a series of drawings based on scenes from the play, Salome, by Oscar Wilde

Portrait of a Spy. E. Temple Thurston. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First edition. Original dust jacket by Mac Harshberger.

Fiction based on “Mata Hari, the notorious cabaret dancer whose execution as a spy was the climax of one of the most sensational mysteries of the World War,” set in Paris at the Height of the the First World War.

Illustration by Mac Harshberger for the 1927 English edition of Tristan and Iseult by Joseph Bédier, translated by Hilaire Belloc.

Tristans Outfit - from the Movie Bonus Card called „Friends“ (which gives us a short insight of Tristans and Bediveres past) - reminds me a lot of Mac Harshberger's Painting of Tristan and Isolde. A fun coincidence? Probably.

When we look at Tristans Base Writing (The Base Writer is Higashide, in case you didn’t know) it is very well researched. It has many influences not only from Malory but a lot of Gottfried von Straßburg. It was to my surprise, since I expected them to go down the Wagner Path, since it’s the most modern version and also it seems very popular in Japan. But let’s save this up for another post!

Back to the topic. Let’s just say Mac Harshberger isn’t the most popular Tristan and Isolde/Yseult Artist (I have to say tho, he is my favourite one). So I guess if searching for Tristan References you don’t easily find him there. But I could imagine that Morii would go all out for a proper research! For Morii's Tristan Design in general I will make a proper post one day!

As I said, I guess it’s rather unlikely that this is based on this drawing and just a general take on Tristans casual medieval look when not wearing his Armor. But I really really like the idea of it!

Frank Macoy Harshberger (1900-1975), 'Madonna and Child', 1924 Source

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Yes !!!! Absolutely. Mac harshberger studied in europe for a good long while (mostly under maurice denis if that name means anything to you- incredible french artist). I know he worked a lot with art deco artists at the time and was peobably insanely inspired by beardsley and neilsen. Mac harshberger was one of the first artists to bring the art deco style to america though! Which is so awesome to me. He did a lot its a shame hes mostly forgotten. Theres been some pushes recently especially by lgbt art groups to recognize him though…!

Heres this pic of his partner, his sister, and him (on the right) lmao. Also some art he did of him and his partner and their cat because I love them