[Graphic Design] Warhol, Andy, Living Off The Main Line

[Graphic Design] Warhol, Andy
Living Off The Main Line
New York: The New York Times, ca. 1951. 23 3/8 x 17 7/8 in. reproduction from the September 13, 1951 issue of the paper, featuring a full-page ad for "The Nation's Nightmare" a CBS Radio Network program about teen drug addiction, gambling, and organized crime on the New York City waterfront. The ad was designed by legendary CBS art director, Lou Dorfsman, and features an illustration of a teenage boy shooting heroin, by Andy Warhol, one of his earliest commercial pieces of art to appear in print. The ad won a Gold Medal from the New York Art Director's Club. Rare.
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Ergo:
No place, no date (but 1954). Elephant folio. 16 pp. Cooperative brochure/directory of New York City freelance commercial artists, each with their own page. Apart from Warhol, they include Thomas B. Allen, Jack Wolfgang Beck, Cliff Condak, Sheldon Cotler, Eugene Karlin, Phil Hays, Jules Maidoff, Jerome Martin, (John) McClash, Richard Oldden, Leonard Slonevsky, Arno Sternglass, Bob Sullivan, and R. Weaver. Printed and illustrated wrappers with crease in middle where once folded. Printed by J. W. Field Co. Rare.
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25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy
No place, (1987). Reprint. 12mo. 8 pp. including illustrated wrappers.
Provenance: From the personal archive of Lou Dorfsman thence to current owner.