Showing posts with label Tony Sarg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Sarg. Show all posts

Sunday, December 1, 2024

Inner Sanctum Picture Puzzles by Peter Arno, Tony Sarg, Otto Soglow, and William Steig

In 1933, Simon & Schuster published four Inner Sanctum Picture Puzzles. These were jigsaw puzzles with interlocking pieces "happily matched" in some unusual but relevant shapes. The black and white images displayed on the box covers teasingly hint at the full color pictures to be seen once the 300-piece puzzles are completed. The comic artists involved in the project were Peter Arno, Tony Sarg, Otto Soglow, and William Steig.


First up is none other than Arno, whose work in The New Yorker was extremely popular. His puzzle is titled Peek-a-Boo! Arno suggestively builds on his reputation as a ribald cartoonist. "This is the story of the Bounder and the Bothered Beauties," the promotional copy on the box cover reads, suggesting something naughty within. 

"Note:  This is a very small section of the picture you will find in the box."








Peter Arno
eBay listing ended November 30, 2024

Peter Arno
eBay item description

[End of eBay listing]

It has since been relisted at a discount.

There is a much better image of the completed puzzle in an old eBay listing archived on Worthpoint:
"Peek-a-boo!"
Peter Arno


Picture Puzzle no. 2, is called Animals in a Speakeasy. The image is by Tony Sarg who was well known as an illustrator and puppeteer.


Tony Sarg's signature indicates a 1932 date of creation.


Animals in a Speakeasy
Tony Sarg

Animals in a Speakeasy
Tony Sarg

An example is currently available on Facebook Marketplace for $29 plus shipping:

Otto Soglow's Little King is featured on the last of the Picture Puzzles, no. 3. It is called King on Roller Skates. Happily, Shay's Puzzle Workshop has great images of the box and the completed puzzle here.


King on Roller Skates
Otto Soglow


No. 4, then, is Oompah! by William Steig. Images of this puzzle are on the flickr account of dajavous. I had to rotate them for your viewing pleasure.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/50241745@N05/30342806614/in/photostream/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/50241745@N05/31020713822/in/photostream/




04811

Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , ,

Friday, February 10, 2023

The Society of Illustrators: Pay-Time and Play-Time

The thirtieth annual exhibition of the Society of Illustrators was held at the Harlow, McDonald Gallery early  in the spring of 1932. It was the time of the Great Depression and, according to an ad found on eBay, many illustrators were out of work. The Society raised money to assist these artists by offering the public fifteen-minute portrait sketches and caricatures by some of the era's most celebrated illustrators. For five dollars ($108.32 in today's money), from March 28 to April 9, visitors could be immortalized by Peter Arno, W. T. Benda, Floyd Davis, James Montgomery Flagg, Rube Goldberg, Jefferson Machamer, Herb Roth, Tony Sarg, Otto Soglow, or C. D. Williams. For those who didn't lose their life savings in the Great Crash, it wasn't a bad deal at all.

What became of these portraits created more than ninety years ago for a good cause? Some of them must still be around, but how are we to recognize if they are from this event?


Society of Illustrators
eBay listing accessed January 29, 2023
Society of Illustrators
eBay item description



Note:  Attempted Bloggery would like to post some of these portraits, so please search your family heirlooms.


The ad is illustrated by W. M. I don't recognize the initials. Could it be Wallace Morgan? Or somebody else?





04226

Posted by at 3 comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Dutch Treat Club Total Offense 1941



Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
—President Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Speaking of infamy on this Pearl Harbor Day, let's take a long look at the artistic selections from the 1941 yearbook of The Dutch Treat Club! It's very timely theme is Dutch Treat Club Total Offense 1941 and surely it lives up to its name. The club's members do what they do every year, privately producing a volume of ribald humor that was too racy for general consumption and staging a one-off public performance—this year with George M. Cohan—that was probably very entertaining and still racy. War was clearly in the offing here. Everyone must have sensed that, even before Pearl Harbor.


Dutch Treat Club Total Offense 1941

Endpaper

Title Page









All for One—One for All
Russell Patterson




Aviation Terms
Frank Godwin

Offense on the Home Front
Fred Cooper

Wait for it... 
Memories
Tony Sarg
Leave it to the puppeteer! 
Memories finger puppet
Tony Sarg









Happy Landing                                             
Dean Cornwell                                             










A pop-up by Tony Sarg:
Tony Sarg

Tony Sarg

Offense Terms
Otto Soglow




Peace—It's Wonderful!
James Montgomery Flagg

At Ease

"The Pursuit of Sappiness"
The 1941 Dutch Treat Club Show


John E. Sheridan







Russell Patterson



The following information has not been independently verified: 

The actual press run was probably 1,250.


Note: This time Stephen Kroninger has really outdone himself, photographing all the visually-compelling pages of the 1941 Dutch Treat Club yearbook. Once again, Stephen, I thank you.


Quick Links to the Attempted Bloggery Archives

The Dutch Treat Club

Stephen Kroninger

Attempted Bloggery's Infamous Index

Attempted Bloggery supports net neutrality.

02391
Posted by at No comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)