Snap Wyatt (USA, 1905-1984) Banner: 204" x 120"

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Snap Wyatt (USA, 1905-1984) Banner: 204" x 120" (518 x 305 cm) "Strange Girls", paint on canvas, 1960's. Produced for sideshow promoter Dick Best, who in the early/mid 60's toured an all girl show with "born" and "working" (tattooed, fire eaters, sword swallowers, metamorphosis illusions) acts. "Strange Girls" features the Tattooed Lady Betty Broadbent and "Half-Girl" Jeanie Tomaini in the lower panel, and 2 Ubangi/Burmese inspired figures and a "Lobster" Girl in the upper panel. Literature: featured on pages 110-111, Freaks, Geeks & Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway; Hardy Marks Publications, 1994. Provenance Dick Best, by commission of artist; Walter Wanous; Sonya Taylor collection; private collection. Exhibition:ë_Freaks and Flash, Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, Chicago, 2009; The Big Day Out Art and Music Festival, Sydney and Melbourne, 1997.
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