ROLF ARMSTRONG (American, 1889-1960). American Sunday cover illustration, November 17, 1912. Pastel on paper. 28 x 22.5 ...

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ROLF ARMSTRONG (American, 1889-1960)
American Sunday cover illustration, November 17, 1912
Pastel on paper
28 x 22.5 in.
Signed lower right

This drawing was reproduced on page 22 of Pin-Up Dreams: The Glamour Art of Rolf Armstrong by Janet Dobson and Michael Wooldridge, Watson-Guptill, 2001. This popular image was also published as an ad for Sunkist California Lemons in 1930, and it was reproduced as a full color frontispiece in the book Advertising in America The First 200 Years by Charles Goodrum and Helen Dalrymple, Harry N. Abrams Inc, N.Y., 1990. The Sunkist California Lemon ad appears on page 131 of this same publication.

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