Brynolf Wennerberg, Swedish
“Wait — That Guy Painting Us Is Brynolf Wennerberg? I Would’ve Guessed It Was Pollock. Or Maybe Keith Herring,” 1914
Photomechanical print
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (Google translated), here (Google translated), and here (Google translated), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Google translated Swedish Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page has more).
/// Their boss netted two fish of such size,
that his bragging was thought to be lies.
“My mere words won’t be counted.
These huge fish must be mounted.”
The girls did what he said. Feast your eyes!
/// Though at fish racing both were beginners,
girl in red and her mount are Both Winners.
The great fish she’s astride
will avoid being fried
like the losers, who’ll end up as dinners.
/// Many people assumed that by snaring
the First Prize, Miss Vermilion showed daring.
Yet, much more than the win,
it’s his great dorsal fin
that Cerise loved when riding that herring.
/// At the race’s end, losers requested
that the two who swam fastest be tested.
Results? Not what some hoped.
They’d been mercury doped.
(The polluters were never arrested.)
/// In the summer of nineteen-fourteen,
on a very well-known magazine
Bathing Beauties are seen
dripping wet (therefore clean),
titillating, but not quite obscene.
/// The reins held in a tight left-hand grip,
in her right she was wielding a whip.
Lashes made her mount buck
on this cover of PUCK*.
Won a race while out taking a dip.
*(The Comic Weekly, an American humor magazine)