Artist

Waldo S. Lanchester

Waldo S. Lanchester is an artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Waldo Lanchester spent his life behind the scenes at puppet shows, setting up the wooden booths and painted backdrops that made kids gasp. He turned a camera on the crowd instead of the puppets, catching faces lit by flickering lanterns—some laughing, some bored, all caught mid-blink. Look for his photo in the city gallery’s corner shelf; it’s titled *The audience at Professor Richard Codman III’s Punch and Judy booth, Liverpool, ca.1940*—no costumes, all real life.

Works by Waldo S. Lanchester

Collections represented

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.

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