Krazy Kat *
Photograph shows the Krazy Kat, an art club on Green Court (near Thomas Circle), Washington. D.C. (Source: Washington Times, July 31, 1921) * Description: 23-year-old artist Cleon "The Throck" Throckmorton (1897–1965) (left) paints barefooted 18-year-old model and fellow artist Kathryn Marie "Kat" Mullin (1902–1994) (middle) on the external premises of Throckmorton's illegal speakeasy, The Krazy Kat, in Washington, D.C.'s bohemian Latin Quarter circa 1921. Sitting on a nearby table and balancing a color palette in her lap, 26-year-old illustrator Inez Hogan (1895–1973) (right) wears a painter's smock and cleans a paint brush. During the Jazz Age, Throckmorton, Mullin, and Hogan were affiliated with an avante-garde circle of libertine bohemian artists known as the Provincetown Players. In this photograph, a fencing saber in its scabbard hangs from Kathryn Mullin's waist. At this time, Mullin was a renowned national champion in women's saber fencing and gave public exhibitions in New York City attended by hundreds of spectators. Mullin was also known for her virtuoso radio and stage performances as a ukulele player with Harry Crandall's Saturday Nighters. For her stage performances
- Date
- 1921-07-31
- Collection
- National Photo Company
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 5,334 × 4,339 pixels
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