Friday, May 20, 2011

Dry Cleaning, 1946

And I thought at-home dry cleaning products were a recent invention! Great era for illustrations, before photography took over the ad pages. It's a busy page for an ad, lots of text, but the lively drawing and color draws me right in. Click image to read.

2 comments:

  1. Sure wish we knew who the illustrator of the woman's face was. Style is so familiar.

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  2. I want to say Jack Davis, who did some Mad magazine stuff too, but I'm not sure.

    Have you seen Today's Inspiration, a blog devoted to illustrators?:
    http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/

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