Above: "Burlesque Characters," a lithograph by Lloyd William Wulf (1913-1965), created while he was in the WPA's Federal Art Project, 1938. According to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Wulf was known "for his late 1930's work on the California Federal Art Project in the San Francisco area" and specialized in "paintings, drawings, and prints on human characters in spatial settings... burlesque clowns, and carnival settings." According to Wikipedia, Burlesque shows "were popular from the 1860s to the 1940s, [performed] in cabarets and clubs, as well as theatres, and featured bawdy comedy and female striptease." Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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