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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Buried Treasure Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1909
Artwork images are copyright of the artist or assignee
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| Illustrator and landscape painter John Newton Howitt (1885-1958) was born in White Plains, New York. His is the classic case of an artist torn between the divergent worlds of commercial and fine artand between what he considered the higher and lower levels of commercial illustration. After a successful career in major magazine illustration, he was forced by the Depression to paint for the pulp magazines, which activity he disliked intensely. He would return, at the beginning of World War II, to (showing 500 of 3539 characters). |
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