Attempted Bloggery: Easter Parade

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Friday, April 15, 2022

Helen E. Hokinson: Easter Parade for a WAC?

Oh, I could write a sonnet about Helen E. Hokinson's cover for the April 1943 Woman's Home Companion.

Helen E. Hokinson
Woman's Home Companion, April 1943
https://www.ebay.com/itm/224327039588

A similar idea appears on an undated wartime postcard by an anonymous illustrator. In this case, the garish colors are distracting compared with Hokinson's limited palette.

World War II-era postcard

https://www.hippostcard.com/listing/wwii-military-comic-postcard-wac-just-looking-art-tone-linen-c1940s-unused/13237300

Woman's Home Companion once again, this time without the address label:

Helen E. Hokinson
Woman's Home Companion, April 1943

https://www.ebay.com/i/284292943337?....

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Saturday, April 11, 2020

Louis M. Glackens: Easter 1908

Louis M. Glackens (1866-1933) provided the cover illustration of Puck for Easter 1908. The artist, brother of Ashcan School founder and American Impressionist William Glackens, did work for the satirical magazine from the 1890s until its sale in 1914. The 1908 Easter cover is a bit quirky. It depicts a rainswept Easter Parade and one older gentleman's odd predicament because "his wife was ill."

HIS WIFE WAS ILL.
Louis Glackens
Puck, April 15, 1908

Scan by Dick Buchanan

Somewhat more cryptic are the figures prancing about the border. There seem to be an octet of red devils chasing and tormenting an octet of robed blue witches. At the top are two Easter Bunnies matching the color schemes of the devils and witches—and the very act of pursuit as well.

Note: My thanks to Dick Buchanan for this, his fifty-third contribution to Attempted Bloggery. That's one for every week of the year and one more for good luck. Dick, to his everlasting credit, maintains the monumental Dick Buchanan Cartoon Clip Files. He also contributes regularly to Mike Lynch Cartoons, most recently a splendid post entitled "From the Dick Buchanan Files: New Yorker Cartoonists 1935 - 1962." You won't want to miss this one.

Louis M. Glackens, I confess, is new to me and hence new to this blog.

I want to identify that church on the Glackens cover as Trinity Church, but I'm not completely sure. What of the armory-like building in the background? Can any reader identify these architectural elements as they existed in 1908 New York?

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Constantin Alajálov for Naturalizer Shoes

In 1947 and 1948, illustrator Constantin Alajálov lent his talents to an advertising campaign for Naturalizer shoes. They were called "The shoe with the beautiful fit" and the illustrations have a beautiful fit as well.

Constantin Alajálov, Easter on Fifth Avenue, Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1947.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/EASTER-ON-FIFTH-AVENUE-ART-IN-1947-NATURALIZER-SHOES-AD-/360952779627?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item540a76536b

Constantin Alajálov, Graduation, Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1947.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GRADUATION-ART-BY-CALET-IN-1947-NATURALIZER-SHOES-AD-/360951572728?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item540a63e8f8

Constantin Alajálov, The Horse Show, Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1947.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1947-NATURALIZER-Shoes-Ad-THE-HORSE-SHOW-Alajalov-art-Campbells-Soup-Ad-/310976299144?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4867a1c088

Constantin Alajálov, Fall Fit Parade, Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1947.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPER-FULL-COLOR-1947-NATURALIZER-WOMENS-SHOES-AD-/360929675862?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item540915ca56

Constantin Alajálov, Spring Fit Parade, Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1948.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/454300681131460012/

Constantin Alajálov, [Easter], Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1948.

http://www.atticpaper.com/proddetail.php?prod=1948-naturalizer-shoes-ad-alajalov

Constantin Alajálov, [Golf], Advertisement, Naturalizer, 1948.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-NATURALIZER-Womens-Shoe-RETRO-STYLE-Golf-Golfing-Girl-PUTTING-GREEN-Ad-/351085286118?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51be5052e6

Note: Put on your best shoes and go check out the artwork of Constantin Alajálov on this very blog.

Not getting sufficient product placement? I know the feeling. Fortunately, a number of posts about advertising are at the ready.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Constantin Alajálov's Easter Bonnet

The illustrator Constantin Alajálov created the New Yorker's charming 1946 Easter cover. Hours before dawn, there is a single light on at the bedroom vanity....

Constantin Alajálov, The New Yorker, April 20, 1946

Note: Other Easter posts may be seen here.

Constantin Alajálov posts may be found here.

You can still read my posts about Passover here.

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

Peter Arno's Easter Parade

On a 1931 New Yorker cover, Peter Arno's gangly jogger disrupts the pomp and pageantry of Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade.

Peter Arno, The New Yorker, April 11, 1931

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Irving Berlin's Easter Parade

Judy Garland and Fred Astaire prepare to step out onto Fifth Avenue in all their finery at the conclusion of MGM's "Easter Parade" (1948). Now if only Irving Berlin would write a great song to go with this.