Sara Carles Johns sketches

Collection — Folder: 1

Identifier: SC.228

Scope and Contents

This collection is comprised of three undated sketches only, all executed in ink, marker and/or paint; a signed full length figure of a woman in outdoor winter wear (skiing perhaps), with leopard print gloves and a blue jacket, with "Harpers" handwritten on the back; an unsigned full length figure of a woman in a bright blue overcoat with red lining and red shoes; and an unsigned black and white drawing of a woman from the waist up, wearing an ornate jeweled choker, earrings, and a large textured turban.

Dates

Creation: circa 1950

Creator

Johns, Sara Carles, 1894-1965 (1894-1965) (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

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Conditions Governing Use

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Biographical / Historical

Sara Carles Johns (1894-1965) was an American artist and fashion illustrator. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1916-1921, where she won the 1919 William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship. She exhibited at the PAFA annual exhibitions in 1919, 1920, and 1925. In the 1940s Johns studies at Parsons, where she met Akexey Brodovitch and produced several covers for Harper's Bazaar, in the 1940s and 1950s.