Fair Rosamond by John Presco 6/2/23

On June 2, 2023, John Presco and Royal Rosamond Press entered the realm of Artificial Intelligence, and rendered works of art, that will be published as Royal Rosamond Art. I generated images from a photograph of Rena Easton who wanted to be place in my Muse Hall of Fame. The art piece of Rena getting a cat out of a tree, is superb. I have pondered many times about putting an object in her hand. A lantern was one choice. That a computer can ponder over this puzzle, and come up with a solution, with no prompt from me, convinces me that AI is real – and creative! What was done with the images of the Rosamond Daughters, reminds me of Fanny Corey, who encouraged Royal Rosamond to write. The name Rosamond is connected to Grimm, and Walt Disney. I am their realm.

Ten years ago I set out to do a painting of Fair Rosamond because I liked nothing that I had seen, so far. I started a painting from the photograph Rena Christensen had given me, but never completed it. Today, I have finished rendering that truly inspires me! Below are my creations as I learned my computer craft.

All my images are copyrighted.

John Presco

President: Royal Rosamond Art & Press

To Rosemounde: A Balade

BY GEOFFREY CHAUCER

Madame, ye ben of al beaute shryne

As fer as cercled is the mapamounde,

For as the cristal glorious ye shyne,

And lyke ruby ben your chekes rounde.

Therwith ye ben so mery and so jocounde

That at a revel whan that I see you daunce,

It is an oynement unto my wounde,

Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce.

For thogh I wepe of teres ful a tyne,

Yet may that wo myn herte nat confounde;

Your semy voys that ye so smal out twyne

Maketh my thoght in joy and blis habounde.

So curtaysly I go with love bounde

That to myself I sey in my penaunce,

“Suffyseth me to love you, Rosemounde,

Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce.”

Nas neuer pyk walwed in galauntyne

As I in love am walwed and ywounde,

For which ful ofte I of myself devyne

That I am trew Tristam the secounde.

My love may not refreyde nor affounde,

I brenne ay in an amorous plesaunce.

Do what you lyst, I wyl your thral be founde,

Thogh ye to me ne do no daliaunce.

Rose of the World Fashion Show

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press

I suspect George Wharton James took the photos of the Rosamond family, and may have taken photos of Eutrophia, Mary’s tragic sister. These sisters were very poor. James had become the publisher of Out West magazine. He was a collector of baskets like the ones we see Bonnie and June with. The four Rosamond sisters seem ill at ease. James was an eccentric. That is him carrying a cross.

We are talking about a family of models. Christine became her image model. Rena’s image graced a poster for Oktoberfest at the University of Nebraska. Did she do more modeling? Her parents had four daughters – who modeled. I am now seeking a publisher, and would like tosee more photos of Rena for my book.

If Rena had become my wife, then we would be an updated version of Royal and Mary Rosamond. This would be the merger of a modeling family. Think of how many beautiful daughters we could have brought into the world. What a great responsibility that would have been. We are not talking about clay statues.

I think Royal took the shots of Eutrophia while James set up his shoot. Note white backdrop. Eutrophia was murdered by her husband. I believe his family nearly starved to death on their farm in the Ojai Valley. Did Eutrophia’s photos appear in Out West magazine?

Jon Presco

George Wharton James (27 September 1858[1] – 1923) was a prolific popular lecturer, photographer and journalist, writing more than 40 books and many articles and pamphlets on California and the American Southwest.

Contents
[hide] 1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links

Biography[edit]

James was born in Lincolnshire, England. He was ordained as a Methodist minister and came to the United States in 1881, serving in parishes in Nevada and southern California. However, in 1889 he was sued for divorce, accused by his wife with committing numerous acts of adultery. He subsequently underwent an ecclesiastical trial, charged with real estate fraud, using faked credentials, and sexual misconduct. He was defrocked, although he was later reinstated. He had a long-running feud with Charles Fletcher Lummis, another writer with similar regional interests.[2]

James’ books included the well received[3] The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (1906), Through Ramona’s Country (1909), In and Out of the Old Missions of California (1905), and The Lake of the Sky (1915). Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and health faddism. He was associate editor of The Craftsman 1904-05, editor of Out West[4] 1912-14, and lectured at the Panama-Pacific and Panama-California expositions 1915-16.[5]

The California State Library and the University of California, Berkeley have collections of James’ books and pamphlets. A collection of his photographs is on file at the University of New Mexico. The Southwest Museum in Los Angeles also has some of his papers and photographs.

Bibliography[edit]
The Wonders of the Colorado Desert. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1906. ISBN 978-1-103-73361-3. OCLC 3313620. LCC F868.S15 J2 (with illustrations by Carl Eytel[6])
Indian basketry. Henry Malkan. 1909. ISBN 0-486-21712-4.
Indian blankets and their makers. A.C. McClurg and Co. 1914. ISBN 0-486-22996-3.
The Old Franciscan Missions of California (Illustrated Edition). The echo library. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4068-2950-1.
The Lake of the Sky. The echo library. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4068-2952-5.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It. The echo library. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4068-5328-5.
In and Out of the Old Missions of California. 2003.
Quit Your Worrying!. The echo library. 2009. ISBN 978-1-4068-5330-8.
Indian Basketry, and How to Make Indian and Other Baskets. BiblioBazaar. 2011. ISBN 978-1-178-58712-8.
New Mexico, the land of the delight makers. The Page Company. 1929.
The Legend of Tauquitch and Algoot. Forgotten Books. 2008.

Black Mask Authors

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press

This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.

Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight Babcock, Eric Taylor and Dashiell Hammett. In the front row, again from left to right, are Arthur Barnes (?), John K. Butler, W. T. Ballard, Horace McCoy and Norbert Davis.

Rosemary told me her father, Royal Rosamond, used to sail to the Channel Islands and camp with his friend, Dashiell Hammett who is seen standing on the right in the photo above.

Aunt Lillian told me she would fall asleep listening to Royal and Erle Stanley Gardner on the typewriter in the living room. Royal was Gardner’s teacher and a member of the Black Mask. I believe I can almost recoginize Black Mask authors under the tree on Santa Cruz Island sitting under a tree with my grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, who does not look very happy as she embraces a black dog. Who is that woman? Is she a writer? She looks a bit crazed, as does the guy holding a gun. Is Mary hearing some far-out and weird ideas around the campfire?

When I was fifteen Rosemary showed me about six magazines wherein her father’s stories appeared. There were several mysteries. I am going to send the camping photo to some experts. That looks like Raymond Chandler in front of the tent. Is he the guy packing heat?

Hammett wrote the Maltese Falcon that begins with a story about the Knight Templars. Was this a tale passed around the campfire on Santa Cruz Island?

Jon Presco

Fanny Corey

Posted on August 4, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press

Fanny Corey could have worked for Walt Disney. Were they aware on one another? Fanny and her brother encouraged my grandfather to become a writer. Fanny’s magical illustrations were known all over the world. Her books came out about 1920. The Hobbit was published in 1937. The Chronicles of Nania were published around 1954. I will be putting Fanny in the Liz Taylor Society I am forming.