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In the early part of the 20th century, Nesbit’s figure and face appeared frequently in mass circulation newspapers and magazine advertisements, on souvenir items, and in calendars, making her a celebrity. Her career began in her early teens in Philadelphia and continued in New York, where she posed for a cadre of respected artists of the era, including James Carroll Beckwith, Frederick S. Church, and notably Charles Dana Gibson, who idealized her as a “Gibson Girl”. She had the distinction of being an early fashion and artists’ model in an era when both fashion photography (as an advertising medium) and the pin-up (as an art genre) were just beginning their ascendancy.
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Nesbit received further worldwide attention when her husband, the mentally unstable multimillionaire Harry Kendall Thaw, shot and killed the prominent architect and New York socialite Stanford White in front of hundreds of witnesses at the rooftop theatre of Madison Square Garden on the evening of June 25, 1906, leading to what the press would call the “Trial of the Century”. During the trial, Nesbit testified that five years earlier, when she was a stage performer at the age of 15 or 16, she had attracted the attention of White, who first gained her and her mother’s trust, then sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious, and then had a subsequent romantic and sexual relationship with her that continued for some period of time.
Thaw, her husband, sexually assaulted her as well and beat her in the past. He was obsessed with women’s chastity and became furious when he learnt what happened with Stanford White.
Evelyn became the proverbial “bird in a gilded cage" when she moved out to the Thaw family home.
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In 1916, she married Jack Clifford, it was not a successful marriage.
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During the 1930s, Nesbit struggled with alcoholism and morphine addiction. She worked on burlesque stages throughout the country, though not as a stripper.
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Thaw, who as late as 1926 was still keeping his ex-wife under surveillance by private detectives, went to Chicago where Nesbit was hospitalized. He learned his ex-wife, despondent after losing her job dancing at the Moulin Rouge Café, had swallowed a disinfectant in a suicide attempt.
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During the years of World War II, Nesbit lived in Los Angeles, teaching ceramics and sculpting at the Grant Beach School of Arts and Crafts.
WE WERE GOING THROUGH STORAGE TO GET A STURDY BINDER FROM THE 80S FOR SCHOOL AND MULTIPLE COPIES OF THIS FELL OUT OF ONE OF MY MOMS JOURNALS IM SHITTING
im making photo copies of this when i get home
Pls upload a scan to let others make copies
i kept the vintage effects in. this is from the 80s, if not the late 70s
more art that I’ve done while I was gone. Admist a lot troubles and lower moments last year I started incorporating music into my art. These are some of my favorites <3
