Showing posts with label 13 August 1955. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 13 August 1955. Show all posts

Friday, May 12, 2017

Claude's Super Hot Dog

The 1950s saw the rise of both fast food and home baking, although these two distinct culinary trends usually did not come up at the same time. Claude Smith's original New Yorker artwork from the August 13, 1955 issue is the exception to that generality.

"Did you ever stop to consider that maybe Duncan Hines doesn't like hot dogs?"
Claude Smith, original art
The New Yorker, August 13, 1955, page 25

Edna Eicke, The New Yorker, August 13, 1955

"Did you ever stop to consider that maybe Duncan Hines doesn't like hot dogs?"
Claude Smith, 
The New Yorker, August 13, 1955, page 25

Verso

Verso, detail

Verso, detail

"Did you ever stop to consider that maybe Duncan Hines doesn't like hot dogs?"
Claude Smith, 
The New Yorker, August 13, 1955, page 25

Verso

Verso, detail

Verso, detail

Claude Smith
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Claude Smith
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"Did you ever stop to consider that maybe
Duncan Hines doesn't like hot dogs?"

Claude Smith, original art
The New Yorker, August 13, 1955, page 25

"Did you ever stop to consider that maybe
Duncan Hines doesn't like hot dogs?"

Claude Smith, 
The New Yorker, August 13, 1955, page 25

Drawings by James Thurber and Claude Smith
The New Yorker,
 August 13, 1955, pages 24-25

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Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Lobster Inn: Edna Eicke New Yorker Cover Art

This luminous painting by Edna Eicke for the cover of The New Yorker shows the Lobster Inn on Long Island after sunset. The artwork is captured on a Kodachrome slide believed to have been shot prior to printing at The New Yorker.

Edna Eicke, Artwork for The New Yorker, August 13, 1955





Note:  The seller reports that the artwork indicates the Lobster Inn was on Long Island. The only Lobster Inn I'm aware of opened in Southampton in 1969 and is today the Lobster Grille Inn under a new owner. Did that restaurant replace an earlier incarnation of the Lobster Inn, or are we talking about two unrelated Long Island restaurants with the same name? Anyone?
 
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