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MusesHistoryClio2.0001_Yevonde

OGCMA s.v. "Muses: History (Clio)"
Benham Gallery, Seattle

Madame Yevonde [Yevonde Cumbers Middleton] (1893-1975), "(Mrs. Anthony Eden as Clio (Muse of History)", The Historical Pictures series, 1935;

Yevonde Chambers, aka Madame Yevonde, was important as a photographer who explored the edges of color photography. As a socialite, she hosted a party in 1935 where she staged a set of photographs, capturing the guests at the party in costumes evoking classical mythological women.

Woman in a curled wig with a blue bust on a pedestal to her right

Helen Morales: " It would seem apposite for the wife of the then (British) Foreign Secretary to be cast as an inspiration to the makers of history. However, while her husband was travelling to meet Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini, Beatrice was, according to his biographers at least, bored rigid with politics. She was 'utterly unsuited to be the wife of a politician,' froze when in company, and was deemed a 'half-wit' by George VI." Classical Mythology, p. 49

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.