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JIM LINDERMAN BLOG ABOUT SURFACE, WEAR, FORM AND AUTHENTICITY IN ART, ANTIQUES AND PHOTOGRAPHY. DULL TOOL AND DIM BULB WERE THE ONLY SWEAR WORDS MY FATHER EVER USED. ITEMS FROM THE JIM LINDERMAN COLLECTION OF VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, FOLK ART, EPHEMERA AND CURIOSITIES. (NOTE: IF ANYONE BELIEVES AN IMAGE CONTAINED VIOLATES THEIR RIGHTS OR INSULTS THEIR INTELLIGENCE, SIMPLY POINT IT OUT AND I WILL REMOVE) Elmer Anderson Returns with a Powerful Show of Incomprehensible Images! Art of the Lowest Order!
My second staggering post devoted to the most remarkable talentless artist in postcard history. Previous Post is HERE. (Collect them all!)Group of Elmer Anderson Postcards, circa 1950 Collection Jim LindermanElmer Anderson, The Third Worst Cartoonist in History Postcards
(Click to Enlarge)The esteemed Elmer Anderson. Or as he is known anywhere a stamp would reach, the GENUINE Elmer Anderson. Biographical information on the prolific post card Picasso is precious... but his primary genres have been identified:
Tit Jokes
Stinky Things
Why did I get Married?
Occupationals and Situationals (Bars, Fisherman, Doctors)
Animal Kingdom (Peeing Dogs and Unwelcome Storks)And most notable, the renowned "Ugly People" series done at the peak of his Elmer powers in 1951. (Interestingly, the year before Mad Magazine debuted) Early Elmers were self-published with a plain reverse. As his fame spread, Elmer created a "stamp here" logo, presumably a self-portrait. All seem to have come from Waterloo, Iowa, certainly an artistic hotbed of the 1950's.Group of Genuine Elmer Anderson Postcards, c. 1950 Collection Jim Linderman
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