{"id":6085,"date":"2007-03-08T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T16:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6085"},"modified":"2022-10-12T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T19:27:04","slug":"high-stepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=6085","title":{"rendered":"High-stepper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI am in love with that. It’s from 1922 – and it’s done by Frank Xavier Leyendecker <\/a>(brother of the dude in the post below this one). Quite a talented family. I love Frank Xavier’s stuff a bit more because of his bohemian subjects – the almost circus-y quality – Harlequins, ballerinas – like Madeleine and Pepito being kidnapped by gypsies and joining the circus (which, surprise, surprise, was my favorite of the Madeleine books). Instead of portraying just mainstream folks … he portrays the fringe-dwellers, the artists, the freaks, the contortionists, the burlesques. My peeps.<\/p>\n

Like this, too, from 1921:<\/p>\n

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I am in love with that. It’s from 1922 – and it’s done by Frank Xavier Leyendecker (brother of the dude in the post below this one). Quite a talented family. I love Frank Xavier’s stuff a bit more because … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2088],"tags":[1514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6085"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180253,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6085\/revisions\/180253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}