Madden’s Majorettes and Drum Major Ann Dinwiddie Madden is a photographer and mixed media artist whose work gives new life to vintage photographs. Using collage, paint, and found materials, she creates one-of-a-kind pieces that honor the people and stories captured in old images. Her work...
It’s been nearly 25 years since Charles Fréger photographed 60 Majorette Clubs in France. When French photographer Charles Fréger began his Majorettes series in 2000, he expected to photograph a handful of clubs. Instead, the project grew into a two-year survey of majorette organizations...
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For generations of Americans, baton twirlers and majorettes appeared not only on football fields and in parades, but also in comic books and newspaper strips. Few franchises reflected that more consistently than Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper and Veronica Lodge. Throughout the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s...
This baton twirler sculpture by artist Duane Hanson (1925-1996) fetched $182,500 at a Sothebys auction in 2011. Hanson, who was famous for creating life-sized, realistic scultpures of people, created Baton Twirler in 1971. Baton Twirler Sculpture Details The sculpture is made out of polyester...
The Cathedrals of Wall Street, 1939Florine Stettheimer (American, 18711944)Oil on canvas; 60 x 50 in. (152.4 x 127 cm)The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkGift of Ettie Stettheimer, 1953 (53.24.2) More than depicting an isolated moment in time, Stettheimer’s paintings depict competing...
Twirling at Ole Miss Cover Art (Film Short) In 1963, Esquire Magazine commissoned the late Terry Southern to write a story about a baton twirling camp in Oxford, Mississippi. The name of the camp was the Dixie National Baton Twirling Institute. Esquire’s editors wanted Southern to address...
Photo Restored by the Vintage Twirler The City of Muskegon Michigan will honor Floyd Cook, Jr. with a public art display. Cook became Muskegon Heights High School’s first Black drum major in 1958. According to the City of Muskegon, the project, “Band Together,” includes a 12-foot-tall,...
“Twirler” by Jane Martin Jane Martin’s essay Twirler is a short but pointed work that uses the figure of a baton twirler to examine race, visibility, and social boundaries in mid-20th-century America. Rather than focusing solely on performance, the piece situates the twirler within a...
Crackerjack Junk Company Miss Twirl inspired sign. The Crackerjack Junk Company of Navosota, Texas, has created a new-vintage sign inspired by the 1981 movie Twirl and the 1989 movie Miss Firecracker. The character in the sign is the company’s latest patriotic girl creation. She twirls a...
