"Meadowbrook Polo" Hand-Color c1953 Lithograph by John Groth PoetryMeadowbrook Four Polo Players Art Sz: 10 1 2"H x 13 1 2"W Frame Sz: 11 1 2"H x 13 3 4"W John August Groth (February 26, 1908 June 27, 1988) was an illustrator and teacher. He gained recognition as a war correspondent illustrator, where he incorporated a technique he called the "speed line." He was the first art director of Esquire Magazine and taught at the Art Students League, the Pratt Institute, and the Parsons School of Design.
His words are supported by reproductions of paintings
including works by both famous and less familiar artists
Embellishments by Robert Ball
But from the beginning Dior caused controversy--his New Look shocked many with its apparent insensitivity to the material hardships suffered by many Europeans in the late 1940s--and Diana de Marly balances this portrait of true eclat with some more general insights into Dior as a modeller of women and leader of fashion
This last volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers the years of the Second World War and its aftermath
13"H x 14"W x 6"L
and in the run up we are given a glimpse of a lost generation of courtiers
Includes: Breakfast Cocktail
when her husband Duff Cooper served as Minister of Information and then in various diplomat posts around the world
6 lbs requires 'white glove' delivery @ buyer's $ expense
Original advert artwork "Arpege Perfume" for Lanvin of Paris
Cotton*Cut-out LR corner on page 71*
