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Life Magazine – February 28, 1930 (# 2469) – James Montgomery Flagg’s American Ideal
$18.00
Magazine Condition Choices :
Fair (Generally Good, once bound, cover split along spine and loose)
Fair (Generally Good, but has a short edge tear)
Please tell me which you prefer.
Description
Cover : Lovely lady, James Montgomery Flagg’s conception of the Ideal American Beauty, art by James Montgomery Flagg. (A 2Neat ♥ customer reports that the model for the cover art was her mother, Marie Stevens. She became Marie Collier four years later when she married the lucky Wm. Buster Collier, Jr.)
– Full page red Life subscription ad with cutest theme and art by Dr. Seuss.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (It pays to advertise! Disarmament begins at home. Includes Luger gun ad from Outdoor Life and art of a man just killed by a thug), signed but initials illegible (Studebaker ad with interesting line and grey wash art), R.B. Fuller (Archeologist of 3000 AD … we ought to reach street level pretty soon!), Edwina (Sinbad : Saturday interlude … boy and dog both get bathed), Gardner Rea (And this is junior, the scout master tells me he’s coming along wonderfully with his knot work … her skirt is knotted up in the back), Ralph Barton (Katharine Cornell and Hope Williams), Dr. Seuss (Life’s Little Educational Charts : The present scientific situation in Europe).
– Fiction : Willingdrift by Eric Hatch, Grips.
– Two page centerspread art by Kemp Starrett (Suffer little children to come unto me) … not sure what was meant at the time, but this cartoon NOW sure looks like something about the Catholic Priest scandals.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with art by Fred Mizen of Genoa, Italy.
– And much, much more.
– Full page art or cartoon art by Kemp Starrett (It pays to advertise! Disarmament begins at home. Includes Luger gun ad from Outdoor Life and art of a man just killed by a thug), signed but initials illegible (Studebaker ad with interesting line and grey wash art), R.B. Fuller (Archeologist of 3000 AD … we ought to reach street level pretty soon!), Edwina (Sinbad : Saturday interlude … boy and dog both get bathed), Gardner Rea (And this is junior, the scout master tells me he’s coming along wonderfully with his knot work … her skirt is knotted up in the back), Ralph Barton (Katharine Cornell and Hope Williams), Dr. Seuss (Life’s Little Educational Charts : The present scientific situation in Europe).
– Fiction : Willingdrift by Eric Hatch, Grips.
– Two page centerspread art by Kemp Starrett (Suffer little children to come unto me) … not sure what was meant at the time, but this cartoon NOW sure looks like something about the Catholic Priest scandals.
– Full page color Coca-Cola ad with art by Fred Mizen of Genoa, Italy.
– And much, much more.
