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Life Magazine – June 30, 1921 (# 2017) – Maxfield Parrish – Swiss Admiral
$198.00
Magazine Condition : Very Good (Essentially EXCELLENT but cover has extraordinarily faint central crease.)
Out of stock
Description
Cover : Quirky little military man with spurs “A Swiss Admiral,” art by Maxfield Parrish.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with cartoon art of a crowded village “When Number two from the south pulls in”, not signed.
– Nice full page color Prudential Insurance ad with Crusaders, art by Sweeney.
– List of contributors to Life’s Fresh Air Farm with photo of boys playing baseball.
– Page telling how Life Magazine moved offices from 31st Street to palatial quarters at the corner of 57th and Madison avenue.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Who’s who?), Robert L. Dickey (The Cave man), Henry Raleigh (Another foreign entanglement), George Bellows (The manly art – boxers),
– Two page centerspread art by J. R. Shaver (The Honeymoon couple answer the ad), one of the few J. R. Shaver artworks that is not all dark.
– Some current events include : Admiral Sims will be home before this issue of Life gets around, Sinn Fein, Politics of the Irish question, Mr. Hughes corresponding to good effect with Germany and Mexico, For months a great many private citizens, bankers, lawyers, capitalists, officers of corporations and men of business generally, have been sitting by the beside of business and giving it oxygen and stimulants, another cut in the price of Ford cars, Dr. William Mayo of Rochester speaks in opposition to animal experimentation (vivisection) on dogs.
– Full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with art of 7 passenger touring car by Edward A. Wilson.
– Full page color Orange-Crush soda ad with original art by Norman Rockwell.
– Unusual full page color Williams’ Shaving Cream ad with drawings of lots of male heads, art by William Oberhardt.
– Much more.
– Nice full page color Prudential Insurance ad with Crusaders, art by Sweeney.
– List of contributors to Life’s Fresh Air Farm with photo of boys playing baseball.
– Page telling how Life Magazine moved offices from 31st Street to palatial quarters at the corner of 57th and Madison avenue.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Charles Dana Gibson (Who’s who?), Robert L. Dickey (The Cave man), Henry Raleigh (Another foreign entanglement), George Bellows (The manly art – boxers),
– Two page centerspread art by J. R. Shaver (The Honeymoon couple answer the ad), one of the few J. R. Shaver artworks that is not all dark.
– Some current events include : Admiral Sims will be home before this issue of Life gets around, Sinn Fein, Politics of the Irish question, Mr. Hughes corresponding to good effect with Germany and Mexico, For months a great many private citizens, bankers, lawyers, capitalists, officers of corporations and men of business generally, have been sitting by the beside of business and giving it oxygen and stimulants, another cut in the price of Ford cars, Dr. William Mayo of Rochester speaks in opposition to animal experimentation (vivisection) on dogs.
– Full page color Pierce-Arrow car ad with art of 7 passenger touring car by Edward A. Wilson.
– Full page color Orange-Crush soda ad with original art by Norman Rockwell.
– Unusual full page color Williams’ Shaving Cream ad with drawings of lots of male heads, art by William Oberhardt.
– Much more.
