Featured Original 1932 New York Advertising Artwork

I stopped into the Habitat store today and they had gotten in about 30-40 pictures, so I went through them and pulled out a few that were original stuff and worth buying. One of the pieces, which I got for $1.00, is an original advertising artwork. The artwork is on a piece of Strathmore paper, it is blind stamped. When I took it apart I found some info written on the back. I was hoping that people could help me sort out the last name and figure out if there was a commercial studio at this address.

 

Sweet Art! Thanks...!

 

Are these two separate clippings mounted on board? If so, I'd say you are in with a chance. The frame looks like a document frame to be purchased at any office supply store, so... maybe not a framer's note. But it could be student work.

Name looks to me like Marie Tarjieu?

 

Both mounted on the same piece of paper. The top one is a watercolor on a separate piece of paper glued to the substrate. The lower illustration is directly painted on the substrate.

 

Do you think those were a class project? Jahn's was a chain of ice cream parlors and can't find a G.I. Fischer piano maker/retailer.

Debora

 

Think it's "Marie Tarjan."

Debora

 

That is a possibility, I also didn’t have any luck with the businesses.

 

Here's Mary or Marie Tarjan at that address. Armenian. 34 in 1930.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/6...c=1810731&personaUrl=/ark:/61903/1:1:X4P3-W1P

 

Compare to this Ludwig Hohlwein poster:

 

There is an oral history by their son Armen Charles Tarjan at Rutgers. He talks about his mom being musical and artistic, she liked to paint.

 

This is interesting ...
https://www.ebth.com/items/6591462-...rcolor-illustrations-on-paper-and-paper-board

Leaning towards art school exercises.

The art pottery is the winner and I'd frame it separately.

 

That really is interesting. It is on the same Strathmore paper and annotated in a similar fashion. My piece and those were done 10 years apart. Maybe correspondence art school?

 

I'd bet anything these both were done as exercises for correspondence school courses. That would explain the five digit numbers they both carry. (Student ids.)

https://designobserver.com/feature/draw-me-schools-of-commercial-art/7687/

Debora

 

One of those schools was in my hometown of Kalamazoo.

 

A lot of grand piano adverts look very similar.

 

I found and read part of it. So interesting! She was also a skilled pastry chef, according to the interview. And Armen Charles Tarjan was apparently well known in his academic life. Found quite a bit about him online.