ww1collector Posted January 20, 2013 Share #176 Posted January 20, 2013 Peirce painted it long before his death. His paintings are signed with a simple WP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted January 20, 2013 Share #177 Posted January 20, 2013 Peirce painted it long before his death. His paintings are signed with a simple WP. Thats amazing.Something like that would freak me out if it had my name on it.Thank you for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted February 5, 2013 Author Share #178 Posted February 5, 2013 Might have to talk you out of that someday Dave! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
normaninvasion Posted March 18, 2013 Share #179 Posted March 18, 2013 Bumping one of my favorite threads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted March 19, 2013 Share #180 Posted March 19, 2013 One of my favorite threads too!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry K. Posted March 19, 2013 Share #181 Posted March 19, 2013 I can't believe I never read this post before, WOW! Thank you much for posting. Hope to read more. Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share #182 Posted March 21, 2013 I can't believe I never read this post before, WOW! Thank you much for posting. Hope to read more. Terry Thank you Terry, I'm glad you liked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 22, 2013 Author Share #183 Posted March 22, 2013 This is a cool photo I just came across. It shows Waldo and Ernest Hemingway down in the Florida Keys sometime in the late twenties. Note that Hemingway is still sporting a bandage on his right knee from his would in Italy in 1918. They didn't meet during the war but met soon after in Paris. They were life long friends and their families would often meet to vacation together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchbuff Posted March 22, 2013 Share #184 Posted March 22, 2013 Is that one of Waldo's kids in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share #185 Posted March 23, 2013 Is that one of Waldo's kids in the background? No, no idea who that little urchin might have been. WP's kids were younger than that fella. Here they are from a photo taken around the same time. The children are Mike, Bill and Anna Gabby. Anna passed away years ago. Mike and Bill are still very much alive. They were from WP's third marriage. He married again later and had two more children, Johnny and Karin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share #186 Posted March 23, 2013 No, no idea who that little urchin might have been. WP's kids were younger than that fella. Here they are from a photo taken around the same time. The children are Mike, Bill and Anna Gabby. Anna passed away years ago. Mike and Bill are still very much alive. They were from WP's third marriage. He married again later and had two more children, Johnny and Karin. Waldo, the children, local nannies and his wife Alzira Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share #187 Posted March 23, 2013 A painting by Waldo from this time period: Sloppy Joes at Key West. WP can be seen standing wearing the hat holding a beer and his pipe. Alzira is sitting at the bar and Hemingway is in the foreground in the short sleeved shirt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted March 23, 2013 Author Share #188 Posted March 23, 2013 No, no idea who that little urchin might have been. WP's kids were younger than that fella. Here they are from a photo taken around the same time. The children are Mike, Bill and Anna Gabby. Anna passed away years ago. Mike and Bill are still very much alive. They were from WP's third marriage. He married again later and had two more children, Johnny and Karin. In a letter written in the mid-1930s, Ernest Hemingway described a visit by Peirce to his home in Key West, Florida: "Waldo is here with his kids like untrained hyenas and him as domesticated as a cow. Lives only for the children and with the time he puts on them they should have good manners and be well trained but instead they never obey, destroy everything, don't even answer when spoken to, and he is like an old hen with a litter of apehyenas. I doubt if he will go out in the boat while he is here. Can't leave the children. They have a nurse and a housekeeper too, but he is only really happy when trying to paint with one setting fire to his beard and the other rubbing mashed potato into his canvasses. That represents fatherhood."[2] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted September 9, 2013 Author Share #189 Posted September 9, 2013 Now that is a grouping !!! Excellent poem and very pretty girl. Nothing like getting into the head of Mr Peirce. Here is the poem in its entireity: TITILLATIONS, AN ODE by Waldo Peirce Breasts and bosoms have I known, of various shapes and sizes, From poignant disillusionments to jubilant surprises, But none excited me to sweat, recoil, shrink, cringe, nay shudder, As the sight of Mrs. Isaac Rice's prehistoric udder. Did I say sweat? I sweat great drops of deep vermilion gore. Did I say shrink? I shrank to nought, till I could shrink no more. Did I say cringe? I cringed indeed; I actually did cower At sight of Mrs. Isaac Rice's mamillary dower. It palpitated in the sun, it polka'd in the breeze. It spread itself when she sat down, like lava on the knees. It undulated when she walked, it quivered when she wept. It throbbed and wobbled when she ate, and heaved the while she slept. The Redwood or Sequoia's trunk, when levelled to the earth, Fell short in full diameter; presented no such girth. The greatest Tidal Wave yet known did not provoke the ripple That rolled majestically around this charming lady's nipple. No drowning crew of fishermen swamped north of Fifty-three Could crisp their hands for object of a greater buoyancy, Nor cast themselves more heartily upon a friendly strand Than Mrs. Rice's offspring on this mammoth lacteal gland. The tawny milk-gourd of the Yak, under the Polar Star, The mother Rhino's deep-set dug, in darkest Zanzibar, The laden and distended pouch upon the pregnant Camel, Were warts to Mrs. Isaac Rice's monumental mammal. No early twittering sparrow, up with the morning sun, Could plunge its small proboscis in an equine fallen bun, With any fractional decimal of Dorothy's exuberance When she torpedoes Mrs. Rice's pectoral protuberance. From this teat gelatinous, with animal persistence A swarming crawling litter eked a tropical existence. Some scaled its altitudinous slopes, some at the base did settle Of Mrs. Isaac Rice's potent Popocatepetl. This heaving Himalayan mass of red maternal meat, Projected in its radius so damnable a heat, That paper withered on the wall, paint blistered on the door, Within the proud Ansonia, upon the fourteenth floor. Above these twin Vesuvii great smoke-rings used to curdle, To mystify topographers, twixt nipple and the girdle. A glacier would have turned aside, lest it should lose its ice, By coming into contact with Mrs. Isaac Rice. Oh, Mrs. Isaac Rice, were I to see you in the nude, And face those fearsome batteries of milk and platitude, If I should glimpse that bosom once, --just scan that belly twice, I should not live to see the rest, my dearest Mrs. Rice. Or were I blind as Homer was, or had you but your breath To test asphyxiation as modicum of death, I think a little of your talk, poured deftly in mine ears, Would herald forth the coroner for Mr. Waldo Peirce. These gentle verses have I writ from some two thousand mile From the Goddess of Suppression of Anything Worth While But still I goose the flesh, I cringe, I quake, recoil and shudder At thought of Mrs. Isaac Rice's Elephantine Udder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jguy1986 Posted September 12, 2013 Share #190 Posted September 12, 2013 Astonishingly, Waldo Pierce passed away one town over from where I grew up (and still visit regularly). Next time I'm there, I'll try to find out where his house is located. What a small world, and what an OUTSTANDING grouping. It is a pleasure to view something with a local connection belonging to such a prominent figure. Thank you for sharing it. -- Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted December 17, 2014 Author Share #191 Posted December 17, 2014 Joyeux anniversaire mon ami Waldo ! December 17, 1884 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hartsmanns Posted December 21, 2014 Share #192 Posted December 21, 2014 Happy Christmas and New Year-- and do you have an update on your book? I am looking forward to it so much..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share #193 Posted December 22, 2014 Still working on it. Hope to have it wrapped by the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieony Posted December 23, 2014 Share #194 Posted December 23, 2014 An exceptionally rare and complete group...thank you for posting for all to see and study! Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share #195 Posted December 30, 2014 Two old ambulanciers, Waldo Peirce and Jon Dos Passos. Photo taken at Key West while both were visiting with Ernest Hemingway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennessee Posted July 8, 2016 Share #196 Posted July 8, 2016 Hey Tom, This is a fantastic thread also! I'm sure looking forward to your books- be sure to count me among the "12" you were planning! Maybe you'll make me the Lucky 13th!! I'm amazed there's not an exploding interest in the American experience in WWI with the Great War Centennial already begun. These type groups really are worth what someone will pay, and an investment in saving them for posterity. Thanks for all the work you have done and are doing! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croix de Guerre Posted October 10, 2016 Author Share #197 Posted October 10, 2016 Hey Tom, This is a fantastic thread also! I'm sure looking forward to your books- be sure to count me among the "12" you were planning! Maybe you'll make me the Lucky 13th!! I'm amazed there's not an exploding interest in the American experience in WWI with the Great War Centennial already begun. These type groups really are worth what someone will pay, and an investment in saving them for posterity. Thanks for all the work you have done and are doing! David Thanks for your kind words and enthusiasm David! I'm on the verge of getting my first book published and hopefully my publisher will be interested in this project as well. Sincerely, Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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