Strauss page three

JULIUS CAESAR STRAUSS -Page 3

Copies courtesy St. Louis Public LIbrary

For many years Strauss mailed out cards for anniversary/special occasions

that bore a characterized likeness of himself by several different artist/

illustrators. The two above, for 1908 & 09and one on right, were done by

Albert Block, then an illustrator for "The Mirror", a St. Louis literary and

provocative weekly magazine published by William Marion Reedy. Reedy

was a regular at the Strauss "Growlery" - the studio's meeting place for Strauss'

coterie of friends and visitors. The illustrator Block, would within a few

years of these cartoons, become the only American Artist who became an

important part of the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter group of progressive/

reactionary German modernists. Block exhibited along side the likes of

Picasso, Klee, Kandinsky and others. Disallusioned with the general

commercial art market, Block later withdrew from showing his work in

general art market venues. He concluded the last 24 years of his

life teaching art at the University of Kansas.

Unidentified boy

Strauss photo

Strauss photo

unidentified

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to see larger photo.

On the left is the Strauss Cabinet card that is dated 1890 on the back (printed, not written)

The Center is a platinum print of the older man. On the right a handcolored image done

on milk glass. These three items came from the Gibson House in Chicago.

John J. Gibson was the official portrait photographer at the Chicago Columbian

Exposition. Its a fact that the Gibsons (Mr & Mrs) knew J.C. Strauss, but why this group was

in the family archives is unknown. Perhaps Gibson was asked to make the colored image

since his Chicago studio had an excellent photo colorist. I suppose its possible that this

group is a photo of an early Strauss family picture. Nothing is concrete yet aside from the

fact that this group survived. Collection author.

STRAUSS & SADAKICHI HARTMAN BY STRAUSS

NOTE: STRAUSS HAS RUBBER BULB IN HAND

LEADING TO CAMERA.

Courtesy Univ. Cal.@ Riverside

Special collections-Hartman Archives

J.C. STRAUSS WITH HIS THREE SONS

L-R , IRVING, J.C., CHARLIE, LOUIS

In courtyard of St. Louis studio

NO DATE BUT DURING WWI

ORIG. NEG COLL. AUTHOR