Raymond Fink posing as Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier, Pageant of the Masters, Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, 1934

Item Overview

Title

Raymond Fink posing as Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier, Pageant of the Masters, Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, 1934

Date Created

1934

Date

1934

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Notes

Description

Raymond Fink posing as Frans Hals' painting The Laughing Cavalier, with upturned moustache, in embroidered jacket with ruff, photographed within dark frame, with woman partially visible at lower right
This photograph appears with the article “Living Pictures of Masterpieces Festival Feature, Paintings Prove Magnet at Laguna Arts Festival.” Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 1934.

Caption

Text from nitrate negative sleeve: California, Laguna Beach Art Festival, 1934
Text from newspaper caption: Featuring the Festival of Arts of Laguna Beach is the list of famous characters painted by old masters who are living again as beautiful maidens and stalwart men stepping, in turn, into a great frame to portray replicas of celebrated masterpieces. ... shown ... “The Laughing Cavalier,” by Franz Hals, posed by Raymond Fink ...

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
news photographs

Names

Fink, Raymond
Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters
Hals, Frans, 1584-1666. Laughing cavalier
Festival of Arts (Laguna Beach, Calif.)

Location

Laguna Beach (Calif.)

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Arts
Entertainment
People
Events