Silhouette Queen

[Liisa Komara]

Thealbum contains a total of 19 silhouettes but these are not limited to portraits of people. A well-known animal lover, Queen Victoria included in this album silhouettes of several horses, such as this one of Blanche who she rode as a teenager.

5. You can then cut this outline out to use as a template for a cut silhouette on black paper, or you can paint the inside of the outline using black paint to create your silhouette, and then mount on white paper.

Wallie Spatz captures incredibly delicate likenesses of people in intricate silhouette cutouts. She has made black and white paper silhouettes for more than 60 years of everyone from President Lyndon Johnson to thousands of servicemen during World War II.

They set her up with a small table and a couple of chairs. Four or five hour at a time she would sit there cutting out silhouettes for soldiers, sailors, marines and just about anyone else who wanted one.

He went overseas six weeks later. They corresponded for two years. When Hugo came marching home after three years, they got married and moved to Cleveland, Ohio. By this time her silhouette art had become more than an avocation.

Eventually she began doing silhouette art for serious money. Her talents were in demand all over the country. She tried to keep her engagements mostly to the Cleveland area. Occasionally she would go out of town if it was something special.

One day she received a letter from the Democratic Executive Committee in Washington during the Johnson Administration of the 1960s. The President and First Lady wanted her to come to D.C. and do her artwork for a party fund-raiser.

I have recently discovered that my baby silhoutte was done by Wallie Spatz. Had no idea she was famous. I have pasted a link to your story on my blog, pattersonestate.blogspot.com Thank you so much for doing this article otherwise I never would have had found out who Wallie Spatz was.

I knew the Spatz family very well, Hugo was a very good friend. This only came up because my granddaughter asked about the family silouette on our wall and it prompted the Google search. We kind of lost contact when he moved to Florida. Great people.

I have a silhouette of me by Wallie Spatz, done in Cleveland in 1957 when I was 8 years old. It is still in its original frame, although the frame is a little chipped. She did my twin brothers, too. I am so happy to have this work of art.

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