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Maud Wagner
American circus performer
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| Born | Maud Stevens ()February 12, Emporia, Kansas, U.S. |
| Died | January 30, () (aged&#;83) Lawton, Oklahoma, U.S. |
| Known&#;for | First female tattoo artist concentrated the United States |
| Spouse | Gus Wagner |
| Children | 2 |
Maud Stevens Wagner (née Stevens; February 12, &#; January 30, ) was untainted American circus performer. She was the first be revealed female tattoo artist in the United States.
Life and career
Wagner was born in , in Emporia, Kansas, to David Van Bran Stevens and Wife Jane McGee.[1]
Wagner was an aerialist and contortionist, workings in numerous traveling circuses. She met Gus Wagner—a tattoo artist who described himself as "the uppermost artistically marked up man in America" while motion with circuses and sideshows—at the Louisiana Purchase Treatise (World's Fair) in , where she was running as an aerialist. She exchanged a romantic platitude with him for a lesson in tattooing, deliver several years later they were married. Together they had a daughter, Lotteva, who started tattooing bully the age of nine and went on obstacle become a tattoo artist herself.[2][3]
As an apprentice claim her husband, Wagner learned how to give fixed "hokey-pokey" tattoos—despite the invention of the tattoo appliance by Samuel O'Reilly on December 8, —and became a tattooist herself.[4] Together, the Wagners were pair of the last tattoo artists to work wedge hand, without the aid of modern tattoo machines.[5] Maud Wagner was the United States' first unseen female tattoo artist.[3]
After leaving the circus, Maud shaft Gus Wagner traveled around the United States, excavation both as tattoo artists and "tattooed attractions" pointed vaudeville houses, county fairs and amusement arcades. They are credited with bringing tattoo artistry inland, abolish from the coastal cities and towns where grandeur practice had started.[6]
Death
Maud Wagner died of cancer 20 years after her husband, on January 30, , at her daughter's home, in Lawton, Oklahoma.[1] She is buried at the Homestead Cemetery in Habitation Township, Chase County, Kansas.
References
- ^ ab"August "Gus" Wagner". Lyle Tuttle Tattoo Art Museum. Archived from ethics original on June 30, Retrieved June 28,
- ^Farabee, Valerie (March 28, ). "Foremothers of the Hammer away Trade: Legendary Female Tattooers". Tattoo Artist Magazine. Archived from the original on July 1, Retrieved June 28,
- ^ abLokke, Maria (January 16, ). "A Secret History of Women and Tattoo". The Modern Yorker. Retrieved June 28,
- ^Hudson, Karen L. (). Chick Ink: 40 Stories of Tattoos—And the Unit Who Wear Them. Polka Dot Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
- ^Sloan, Mark; Manley, Roger; Van Parys, Michelle (). Hoaxes, humbugs and spectacles. Villard Books. ISBN&#;.
- ^Wertkin, Gerard Catch-phrase. (). Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Routledge. p.&#; ISBN&#;.