#frank snapp

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Woman in White Seated in a Birch Bark Garden Bench

Frank Snapp (1876-1927)

American Illustrator

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Frank Snapp: The Piano Teacher

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Frank Snapp    Nude playing the piano

[books0977]

The Brute. Frederic Arnold Kummer. New York: W. J. Watt and Company, (1912). First edition. Original dust jacket and illustrations by Frank Snapp.

New York City set novel as a marginal mystery and contemporary expose of the excesses of luxury, living beyond one's means and the price that must be paid. Basis for the 1914 black and white silent film produced by Famous Players. Directed by Thomas Heffron and starring Malcolm Williams and Helen Hilton.

[justineportraits]

Frank Snapp    Nude bathing

[puutterings]

the defects of his qualities and the qualities of his defects

        He kicked his slippers toward Zeb, who was puttering at the suit-case.       “Put those in the suit-case and hand me my black-silk socks.”       Zeb looked everywhere for the black-silk socks.

ex What’s the World Coming To? By Rupert Hughes. Illustrated by Frank Snapp. (1920) : 241 NYPL copy (via hathitrust) : link

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      Mrs. Summerlin ended the nonsense with a word. “Why, nobody posed, of course! Who’d you suppose posed? April had been puttering away at that for months. She began it one day when she had one of her premonitions that you had been killed in France. She called you angel and said she was going to make a gre’t monument for you. And I hope you’re not going to—”       Bob did not wait to find out the end of that “going to.” He broke in:       “Why, of course not, Mrs. Summerlin! I was just thinking it was so fine that she must have had a model.”       [69] Bob had both the defects of his qualities and the qualities of his defects. He had a hair-trigger temper, and he shot off accusations point-blank, but he was just as quick with his apologies, and he fairly riddled himself with them. pp 68-69 : link

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nice section titles : Money Comes In; Money Goes Out; Honor Comes In; Honor Goes Out; Love Goes Out; Love Comes In. : link

and nice “inventory of trouseaus” 1914-1919 : pp 124-126 : link

caption to illustration, facing p340 — She [April Summerlin] decided that sculpture was not for her.  

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Nude Playing the Piano by Frank Snapp, c. 1915.

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Nu Jouant du piano. Frank Snapp (American, 1876-1927). Gouache.

Snapp attended the Art Institute of Chicago and worked in Detroit, New York City, and Chicago, primarily as an illustrator. His gouache works were accomplished and colorful. Here, the lady has set aside her robe and perhaps is working on a short part of a composition as her posture limits her range.