Maud Stevens Wagner: The Mona Lisa of American Tattoo

Colophon

Author

Alan Govenar

Publisher

Schiffer Publishing

Language

English

ISBN

9780764369308

Pages

128

The volume

The second book in Alan Govenar's Last of the Hand Tattoo Artists series, telling the story of Maud Wagner, the Mona Lisa of American tattoo. A carnival contortionist and aerial performer who became one of the first known female tattoo artists in the United States, her life is traced through an oral history from her daughter, archival photographs, flash from Gus Wagner's notebooks and period newspaper clippings.