Adrien Delovincourt, French Fashion Art Cover, Art Gout Beaute: Feuillets De L'Elegance Feminine, Art Deco, Vintage Fashion Magazine Cover, 1928
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The Many Illustrators of
A Tale of Two Cities
4: Curtiss Sprague
...& a guest book editor...
This week's is a special one.
We'll dive right into this 1930 edition by first admiring all the silhouette art of its illustrator, Curtiss Sprague - but see if you notice something extra along the way:
And to highlight the last one for its marvelous misquote:
Alright, have you noticed it? There's more than just ink coloring some of these pages!
Yes, this week we're not just taking a look at this 1930 edition - we are taking a look at this particular copy of this 1930 edition, which features not just Sprague's beautiful work...
...but also the work of William*, a high school sophomore 92 years ago who clearly learned the lesson from my last post!
*although perhaps not clearly enough because I personally can't tell for certain what his surname is by his signature😅
Besides his coloring in Sprague's silhouettes, there isn't a lot more of his work written throughout the book - he did make sure to take plenty of notes in the blank pages, though!
There is also this brief note (please comment if you can make out the word above the date!):
As well as this subtle substitution (whoever C.E.S. is...oof!):
William's work made searching through and scanning this particular book an absolute delight - it was a grounding and beautiful reminder that students have been idly writing in their schoolbooks for as long as school has existed.
Thank you, William!
& the standard endnote for all posts in this series:
This post is intended to act as the start of a forum on the given illustrator, so if anyone has anything to add - requests to see certain drawings in higher definition (since Tumblr compresses images), corrections to factual errors, sources for better-quality versions of the illustrations, further reading, fun facts, any questions, or just general commentary - simply do so on this post, be it in a comment/tags or the replies!💫
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George Barbier, Art Deco Cover illustration for the French magazine Art, Goût, Beauté: Feuillets d'Elégance Feminine, published by Éditions D'Art. Paris, France, 1925.
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Cover for the French magazine Art, Goût, Beauté: Feuillets d'Elégance Feminine, published by Éditions D'Art. Print. Paris, France, 1925.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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Hera Roberts and Adrian Feint - Cover artwork for The Home magazine, 1928
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When ppl in person realize i can draw, and i mention im writing, theyre like: oh are you making a comic? Then when i say no, it took me 30 days to do a 30 page 1 chapter comic last time I tried at 4-6 hours of work a day and ideally id like a turnaround of like one 30 page chapter per 1-2 weeks if i was going to do it long term so. No. I am not making comics any more.
Then theyre like: are u gonna illustrate ur book???
And while i deeply appreciate the sentiment. Its also like... well my good sir madam elder, do u typically... look for adult novels with illustration pages? I mean yes i love illustrations too but im not sure why id draw extra, when im already gonna probably make my own cover, and i want my books to be enough within confines of expected that ppl idk... give em a chance? Idk. Food for thought. Do i illustrate my book chapters mm
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Conrado Walter Massaguer (Conrado W. Massaguer, Conrado Massaguer, C. W. Massaguer, Massaguer), Travel Illustration for the Cover of Social Magazine, Cuba, 1926.
Massaguer (Cuban, 1889-1965) was Art Director of the magazine Social (founded in 1916), he had many of his caricatures published in American magazines (Life, Cosmopolitan, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair) and designed artwork for Cuba's pavilion at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. (x)
Photo: Halloween HJB
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you said you take map commissions, and i'm in the process of creating a wcrp server. could you give your prices? i've never commissioned a map before and i'd like to be able to get one entire map, plus camp maps. thank you!
Thanks for your interest! Territory maps 50GBP (paypal only), I'll need a description of the territory (a google doc with any descriptions, pictures, etc works great!) and camp/territory pieces like this or this (these were for another RP i did, each piece is of a specific area in the territory) or this camp are 40. I've got no restrictions for any type of territory, desert, forest, city, etc whatever! av size is 2500 x 1800 but if you have specific sizes for a forum or website i'm happy to do those to : )
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