Talk:Tony Sarg
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OK, look: the first thing i gotta say about him is the least important, let's get it out of the way:
- His "google test" is a wretched "106 of about 187".
But he died over sixty years ago; your mother probably never heard of him, and how many Web pages has she created, in case it happens she does remember who he was?
Bil Baird worked for him 5 years before going out on his own; he did the first balloons for the Macy's Day Parade; his cumulative audience at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair was 3 million; he's got a 1988 small-press bio (but spiral bound, i'm afraid, out of print, and about 2/3 of that is appendices). (And he's in the NYT crossword for yesterday (Saturday).) But there is no mention of even his last name in the article space.
If no one with an interest in puppets expands my stub, maybe i will. Here's enough to base the stub on, and then some:
- Tony Sarg "Puppeteer Profile" by Karen Backes
--Jerzy (t) 02:35, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
Caution: the Madison Square Garden mentioned in the ext ref above is one of the first two, not either of the more recent uptown ones. --Jerzy (t) 05:56, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know if I am doing this properly; I welcome any coaching. The Nantucket Historical Association has a small but wonderful collection, much of which is available online in facsimile. Tony Sarg was a summer resident of that island for many years and is represented in the NHA online collection with a variety of work; writing, drawings, paintings, designs and objects. They are all documented and dated, often with commentary. Anyone who wants to know more about this fascinating, if minor, artist would find much that is interesting there. Would a link to that site be appropriate? http://www.nha.org/
Also, there is a direct link to a long article originally published in Historic Nantucket magazine, vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2004) which includes more biographical information and the text of a long letter, complete with illustrations, written in 1906 by Mr. Sarg to his future wife, Bertha McGowan. That link is http://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNsarg.htm
In many ways he was the Jim Henson or Dr. Suess of his day, although without as much economic success!
I await the input of someone with more experience than I.
--Kguido (talk) 21:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Darn it--I just figured out how to access the page about the NHA Tony Sarg exhibition. It is http://www.nha.org/digitalexhibits/sarg/index.html. Again, would this be considered an appropriate link?
--Kguido (talk) 22:16, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
