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...poster appeared in Manhattan advertising "colored engravings for the people, published by N. Currier, lithographer:"† He either draughted the designs himself or copied famous paintings, lithographed them in cheap, garish colors, sold them by thousands. During the Civil War, with Collaborator J. M. Ives, Nathaniel Currier made battle scenes, gave them to prize-winning essayists and orators in the grammar schools and as premiums in grocery stores to drum up patriotism. After the war the firm exploited and illustrated early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home...
...Story. Gučret was a huge stoop-shouldered young man, his full and sallow face had a fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified...
Because it is delicate rather than garish, scholarly rather than smart, the work of Cleland escapes the casual observer of U. S. advertising pages. But famed was his General Motors series (1924), black and white pictorial decorations for statistics-Labor, Car Sales, Assets, Freight, etc.-drawn with such refinement that they seemed like engravings. Famed also was his Cadillac catalog (1927) in which sleek, pastel-tinted automobiles were pictured in great vaulted salons or beneath the towers of fabulous cities. Most numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils...
Virginio DeMartin in his Mono, Lisa in Paradise Dress had stripped Leonardo's inscrutable model down to a garish French postcard, not nude but naked...
...from the nearby ocean. Hot air arose in the press. A mellow Florida moon lurked behind drifting clouds. Forty thousand men and women in a bowl of raw yellow pine-the Greeks knew how to do these things much better-looked not at the elusive moon but at a garish cone of artificial light in the bowl's bottom...