There's really no information about Andy Virgil that I've been able to find. He seems to have arrived on the scene around 1955 out of nowhere. Perhaps he was honing his skills, uncredited, on advertising work? But where and for whom remains a mystery at this point.
Great illustration...that pose says everything it needs to. Terrific!
ReplyDelete(Am I the only one who reads the stories that go with the illustrations and wish that the rest of it were available somewhere? I'm always wondering what happened next... :))
lynsa; I've heard from the ever knowledgable David Apatoff, of Illustration Art blog fame ( see my sidebar) that many illustrators who did this type of work haunted the antique shops of New York City for props like this chair. Its very likely that the artist posed his model on that actual chair and didn't just "fake" it from a photo.
ReplyDeletechrissie a; you are not alone! the afore mentioned Mr. Apatoff (and others) have lamented the fact that my scans leave them hanging - but I'd be scanning all night as well as all day if I provided all the remaining story pages! I'm sorry I can't help all you readers out there, but I encourage you to put your pent-up creativity to use and write your own ending. ;-)
Leif, if one purpose of a good illustration is to make you want to turn the page and read the story, you are heartless to show us all these great illustrations and thwart us from finding out what happens!
ReplyDelete(On the other hand, I have to tell Chrissie A that my wife and I once bought a romantic John Gannam illustration and we were so curious about the story that we got the 1954 Good Housekeeping magazine in which it appeared. The story turned out to have such a terrible ending that my wife can't stand the painting any more. So sometimes we're better off not knowing!)
Ha! That's a funny story, David - and just confirms my suspicions that I'm sparing you all from lame and unhappy endings. ;-)
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