In 1873 Butterick Publishing Company began publishing a magazine, The Delineator, to show off it's various clothing patterns. The magazine was published until 1937. It was THE women's magazine of its day.
During the 1930s many of the covers were done by the illustrator of the cover below, Dynevor Rhys. I've never been able to find out any information about this illustrator, but these covers are very collectible. To see more of the work from the 1930s click here.
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He also did illustrations for ads within the magazine as shown below. This one is on the inside cover of this issue of Delineator.
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I love these illustrations. They're stylized, vivid, and even if the eyes creep you out they draw you in. And they really do feel like the movies of the 1930s when people wished that life could maybe be truly grand even if their reality was something else. Wishes are like ephemera. Gone in a moment, replaced by something else.
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I love them too, the colours are so vivid. I'm celebrating all the lovely blogs I visit, so there is an award for you on my blog HERE
ReplyDeleteOh Janice, too kind. I'm afraid I've been offline the past couple days getting work done in preparation for going on a short vacation. Would you believe I don't have 7 blogs to send this to? But thank you so much for being so kind.
ReplyDeleteI love those eyes! Not creepy at all and such beautiful detail and coloring.
ReplyDeleteI'll scan some more covers once I'm home. They're all lovely.
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