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...swastika (see cut) was released this week by Associated American Artists. Where the shadow comes from is an art problem that plain observers are left to guess. McKnight Kauffer's abstract Steel! Not Bread poster (see cut} would probably confuse even sophisticated observers. Illustrator Jean Carlu's mechanistic Give 'Em Both Barrels ( see cut} is modern chewing-gum art, minus the latter's peppermint flavor. Workers in five New Jersey plants on whom it was tested came up with the conclusion that Illustrator Carlu meant to depict the FBI's fight against crime...
...with the aid of N. W. Ayer's Art Director Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...
With more jobs as slick as Carlu's, OEM's poster outfit may become a central art bureau working for all defense agencies. Besides the OPM assignment, it is doing jobs for the Agriculture and Interior Departments and the Civil Service Commission. Proud of its products, it pays artists $250 for big color posters. Trade fee for such work would...
...FORTUNE, in its forthcoming August issue, will present a portfolio of privately devised defense posters by Joseph Binder, George Giusti, Herbert Bayer, Howard Liberman, Jean Carlu, Edward Steichen...
Architect Carlu is now head professor of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but the Carlus live and practice in Manhattan. Their home is her studio, and more homelike than studious. But there was nothing amateur about the pictures she exhibited last week. They were gay, finely drawn, cleverly decorative in bright dressmaker's colors. They seemed eminently salable. Artist Carlu dimples as she admits that she was responsible for the sophisticated murals in the second floor lounge of Boston's Ritz-Carlton. "I did the figures," she says, "and my husband put in the landscape...