Book cover, navy and sepia tones, hardcover landscape orientation, front view
Maud Stevens Wagner: The Mona Lisa of American Tattoo
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Book cover, navy and sepia tones, hardcover landscape orientation, front view
  • Book cover, navy and sepia tones, hardcover landscape orientation, front view
  • Book cover sepia portrait of tattooed performer in sequined leotard posed with stool
  • Book cover mounted on sepia cabinet card showing tattooed man and woman in Victorian studio portrait
  • Book cover featuring black-and-white portrait of heavily tattooed woman in dark costume, front view
  • Antique sepia photograph pair showing tattooed woman front and back views, circa 1906–1907
  • Book cover sepia-toned vintage photograph of woman seated in wooden rowboat outdoors
  • Vintage tattoo flash board featuring roaring leopard with red roses and floral motifs, aged cream and black painted wood panel
  • Book interior spread showing vintage tiger and snake tattoo flash art on aged cream pages with contents listing
  • Book spread showing two sepia portrait photographs of Maud and Gus Wagner circa 1904
  • Book interior spread showing vintage scrapbook pages with tattooed performers and circus advertisement
  • Tattoo flash art pages showing dragon, eagle, and serpent designs on aged paper
  • Vintage tattoo flash pages showing horses, horseshoes, figures, and lucky symbols in traditional style
Maud Stevens Wagner: The Mona Lisa of American Tattoo

Maud Stevens Wagner: The Mona Lisa of American Tattoo

Maud Stevens Wagner, the "Mona Lisa of American tattoo," was an ardent individualist who left home at a young age to pursue a career as a carnival performer, a contortionist, a tattoo model, and an aerialist. She was a thoroughly modern woman who asserted her independence and her own identity. Maud and her husband, Gus (known as the “most artistically marked-up man in America"), traveled the country as the Wagner’s Traveling Museum, exhibiting themselves and making tattoos around the US. This book is the second in the series Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists, detailing the lives of Gus, Maud, and their daughter, Lotteva. Author Alan Govenar brings you Maud’s story with: • Lotteva Wagner's oral history. • clippings and photographs from Gus Wagner’s scrapbooks. • the Wagners' tattoo flash. • newspaper articles and obituaries. 128 pp | 120+ color and black-and-white photographs
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Maud Stevens Wagner, the "Mona Lisa of American tattoo," was an ardent individualist who left home at a young age to pursue a career as a carnival performer, a contortionist, a tattoo model, and an aerialist. She was a thoroughly modern woman who asserted her independence and her own identity. Maud and her husband, Gus (known as the “most artistically marked-up man in America"), traveled the country as the Wagner’s Traveling Museum, exhibiting themselves and making tattoos around the US. This book is the second in the series Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists, detailing the lives of Gus, Maud, and their daughter, Lotteva. Author Alan Govenar brings you Maud’s story with: • Lotteva Wagner's oral history. • clippings and photographs from Gus Wagner’s scrapbooks. • the Wagners' tattoo flash. • newspaper articles and obituaries. 128 pp | 120+ color and black-and-white photographs
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