Over a 27 year period American freelance graphic designer, Morton Bartlett, constructed a family of 15 child-like plaster dolls. He studied anatomy books to ensure everything from the toes to the tongue was anatomically correct. He then placed his work into tableaux, and took photographs of them individually and in groups.
His work became public in an article in Yankee Magazine in 1962 titled ‘The Sweethearts of Mr Bartlett’.
He never married and had no real children but his plaster creations provided him with the fantasy family he may have yearned for.
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