Poodles On Wheels

Today, we are taking part in two blog hops. We have never done this before and so will see how it works. The two hops are Barks And Bytes Blog Hop kindly hosted by 2 Brown Dawgs and Heart Like A Dog and Thoughtless Thursday by Ruckus the Eskie.

Daydreaming About Cruising With My Dogs On This Cold Winter Day

Dogs and cars just go together. Most dogs love to go on a ride with you. When my three even think I am taking off, they are ready to go along. 

Jack Lemmon and his Poodle in his Ferrari

Mustang Poodle-I found this in a vintage Poodle care book-The Poodle Book
by Jeff Griffen

Let's Go!

Just a cute vintage photograph of a girl, her tri-cycle, and her Poodle.

Winston Churchill in route with one of his Poodles.  He had two during his life time and they were both named Rufus.

Photo by John Rawlings, definitely 50's but don't have the exact date.

A pink Poodle in what I think is a pink Thunderbird, during the 50's.

And that pooch happens to be a Poodle. I 'm not sure where I got this but place it in the late 40's.

Mom, when I said we should get a cool sports car, I meant something larger than this!
You can give this one to the cat.

And end closing, remember the Bud commercial? 

Click Here to see it.

La Gimblette

 First of all, I want to thank 2Brown Dawgs and Heart Like A Dog for sponsoring Bark and Bytes. And also, I want to thank them for the Amazon gift card. With a rather long wish list, I will put it to good use! Now, to my post.....

In great anticipation (for me anyway) of George Clooney's "Monument Men" opening, I am republishing this post.

It was originally published  9/5/12 on my art and fiber blog The MeadowTree Journal.


Today's post is a bit Art and WW II history. I am a newly retired teacher. To be specific, an art teacher.  For many years I had "Art History Wednesday". Today's post feels like those Wednesdays (although I do realize it is Monday!).

One of my earlier research items for my Pinterest Poodle! Board was a painting entitled Young Girl with Poodle (La Gimblette). The painting was created by François Boucher (September 29, 1703 – May 30,1770), one of the foremost painters of the French Rococo period. He is known for his rich and atmospheric works portraying the French upper class. Boucher also painted several portraits of his very famous patroness, Madame de Pompadour.

I thought at the time that I would eventually find a color version of the painting, but research found the sad truth. The Nazis stole La Gimblette for Adolph Hitler during World War II. The work originally belonged to the Jacques Stern Collection in Paris. Hitler, a failed artist himself, had dreams of creating an art museum in his hometown of Litz, Austria. He was going to use his stolen art to do this.

The Nazis looted 20% of the art of Europe. As they plundered, they would photograph and catalogue each item in an album for their Fürer. It is said that about 100 albums of photographs of art were created. Forty-five were recovered at the end of the war by the allies. Occasionally a new album turns up. An album with a photo of La Gimblette was donated to the National Archives in 2007. 

One hundred thousand pieces of original art are still missing from the art pillage during World War II. At this point, La Gimblette is still among the missing. One can only guess what beautiful colors Boucher used because all we have is this small black and white photo.  Maybe someday the beautiful girl and her dancing Poodle will find their way back home.  

In my research last winter, I was able to find a 300 dpi download of this work of art. This time around, I could not locate it, but have it on my computer. It would make a nice print. If anyone wants the larger version, email me and I will send it to you.  

The organization that has been active since World War II in stolen art recovery is the Monuments Men Foundation. Their website has up to the minute information of the efforts being made to recover still missing work.  

That Research Was Hard Work-Time For A Nap

Wordless Wednesday-Happy Halloween Eve!

Happy Halloween Eve!

Art That Has Been Inspired By Poodles

Every dog at sometime has probably inspired artists. Today's post has just a few works that has been inspired by

POODLES

 This is part one of a multi part series because Poodles have done a lot of inspiring! Let's begin our tour...........................

Two Miniature Black Poodles- Frederick Thomas Daws. R.A. (British, 1878-1949) was

One of Britin's premier animal painters. For the money you can still get his work at auctions. 

 Check out Encore Editions

Roxy by Tom Corbin, a Kansas City based artist.

"Since 1983, colourful giant animals have been spotted around the world. Some seem to emerge right out of the water, while others hang in the balance like some kind of animal laundry between close-knit buildings. Still others stand guard atop historic landmarks and downtown balconies. Created using recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group, these animals represent the art collective's strong social and environmental ethic while bringing accessible contemporary art to the masses.

Read and see more animals here.

The Blue Boy, One of the great mosaics by KG Studio in
Oakland California

Pomp by Jennifer Davis

Niko hopes you have enjoyed our first art tour.

Poodles In Fashion

 Today's post is much lighter in spirit than the last two I have written. I am bringing it over from The Journal. I wrote it when the fall fashion week was going on in New York. But every week is fashion week for me. So, here we go. 

Designers and fashion photographers have understood that Poodles complement good design. Poodles have shown up in fashion since the 19th century. Today's post will have fairly modern overview. Here are a few. 

I am starting out with the most recent. Isaac Mizrahi has again featured a Poodle with his designs. This time around, in promotion of his newest fragrance Fabulous. The campaign was photographed by Terry Richardson.

Ad campaign for Isaac Mizrazi's Fabulous. This was released past this Summer.  Isaac doesn't own a Poodle but seems to use them a lot in his work. 

Model Coco Rocca. Vogue 2008

Model Audrey Marnay in white Dior with a white Poodle. Vogue, 1999

Natalia Semanova, Arthur Elgort, 1999. Vogue UK,  2009

Vogue Brazil

Model Natalia Vodianova-July Vogue, 2007

So, until next week-Fashionably Yours, Sophia

Poodles And Cola Ads

Poodles and Cola=Stylin' in Mid-Century

Pepsi equated active, modern, and stylish people with drinking Pepsi Cola, and of course, it helped to own a Poodle.

1954-If you went to the beach, had a Poodle and had style, you had to drink Pepsi.
This is probably my favorite ad of the group and I was able to snag one on eBay.

1959-If you dress to the nines, have Poodles, you must drink Pepsi.

Coca-Cola had the more family approach with their ads.

 If you are in the hospital and can't have your favorite Poodle with you,

 a stuffed one will have to do. This is an ad designed by William A Smith.  In fact, I believe his daughter was the little girl.  I could not find a date.  However, she is probably in there to get her tonsils taken out.  Back then, if you so much as sneezed, out came the tonsils.

1964-Even Santa drank Coke and brought Poodles for Christmas.
This is the original oil painting for the ad by Haddon Hubbard "Sunny" Sundblom.
The painting's title  is Things Go  Better With Coke.