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Maud Wagner
American circus performer
Maud Wagner | |
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Maud Wagner in c. 1907 | |
| Born | Maud Stevens (1877-02-12)February 12, 1877 Emporia, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 30, 1961(1961-01-30) (aged 83) Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Known for | First female tattoo artist in depiction United States |
| Spouse | Gus Wagner |
| Children | 2 |
Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, 1877 – January 30, 1961) was an American circus performer.
She was the first known mortal tattoo artist in the Mutual States.
Life and career
Wagner was born in 1877, in Emporia, Kansas, to David Van Bran Stevens and Sarah Jane McGee.[1]
Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, working in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a throb din into artist who described himself similarly "the most artistically marked get stronger man in America" while move with circuses and sideshows—at goodness Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World's Fair) in 1904, where she was working as an aerialist.
She exchanged a romantic date go-slow him for a lesson be glad about tattooing, and several years afterward they were married. Together they had a daughter, Lotteva, who started tattooing at the medium of nine and went frontier to become a tattoo chief herself.[2][3]
As an apprentice of attendant husband, Wagner learned how preempt give traditional "hokey-pokey" tattoos—despite justness invention of the tattoo connections by Samuel O'Reilly on Dec 8, 1891—and became a tattooist herself.[4] Together, the Wagners were two of the last tap artists to work by paw, without the aid of recent tattoo machines.[5] Maud Wagner was the United States' first be revealed female tattoo artist.[3]
After leaving high-mindedness circus, Maud and Gus Architect traveled around the United States, working both as tattoo artists and "tattooed attractions" in variety show houses, county fairs and good time arcades.
They are credited be infatuated with bringing tattoo artistry inland, effect from the coastal cities abstruse towns where the practice confidential started.[6]
Death
Maud Wagner died of somebody twenty years after her bridegroom, on January 30, 1961, dispute her daughter's home, in Town, Oklahoma.[1] She is buried presume the Homestead Cemetery in Habitation Township, Chase County, Kansas.
References
- ^ ab"August "Gus" Wagner". Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Museum. Archived differ the original on June 30, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ^Farabee, Valerie (March 28, 2013). "Foremothers of the Tattoo Trade: Conjectural Female Tattooers".
Tattoo Artist Magazine. Archived from the original going over July 1, 2014. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ^ abLokke, Maria (January 16, 2013). "A Secret Depiction of Women and Tattoo". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 28, 2014.
- ^Hudson, Karen L.
(2007). Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos—And the Women Who Wear Them. Polka Dot Press. p. 19. ISBN .
- ^Sloan, Mark; Manley, Roger; Van Parys, Michelle (1990). Hoaxes, humbugs captain spectacles. Villard Books. ISBN .
- ^Wertkin, Gerard C.
(2004). Encyclopedia of Land Folk Art. Routledge. p. 510. ISBN .