FORTUNE July 1930
Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Trade with China, Illustrator unknown
Reclining Nude c 1977
Collage Mixed-Media
This is one of one hundred images of Romare Bearden’s work that have been gathered by the Bearden Foundation to celebrate the artist’s 100th birthday, see the entire collection and more at beardencentennial.org
Reclining Nude, c 1977
Collage Mixed-Media
This is one of one hundred images of Romare Bearden’s artwork that have been gathered by the Bearden Foundation as a tribute to celebrate the artist’s 100th birthday… see the entire collection and more at beardencentennial.org
Promotion booklet written and designed by Leo Lionni, 1952
Source: The Daily Heller
Henry Kreis, Artist
Francis Brennan, Art Director
From “FORTUNE’s Wheel” January 1939:
… you’re probably wondering about the cover on this issue. The idea of it originated in FORTUNE’s art department, logically enough, and so far as we know it’s new. We asked that eminent young sculptor, Henry Kreis, if he wouldn’t like to do a complete FORTUNE cover as a bas-relief. He said he’d be delighted and showed up shortly after with four or five pencil sketches. When we picked our favorite he went to work with chisels and gouges, and produced, by the “negative cut” technique, a slab of plaster the exact size of the cover, plus, on the lefthand edge, the “spine”—the portion that wraps around the binding edge of the magazine. It was complete not only with Mr. Kreis’s extremely handsome design, but with the necessary apparatus like the name, the FORTUNE cover frame, the lettering showing price, volume, and number, and date—all cut in reverse. From this negative he then made a positive cast. That was our original. The job was then to light it properly and photograph it for three-color offset reproduction. We had to use some funny inks to get the proper facsimile effect, but everything worked as planned, and we hope you like the result.
Mr. Kreis, a German who had had enough of his homeland in 1923 and has lived in the U.S. since, began as an apprentice stone carver, and in the beginning had to take time out from that to unload freight cars, help dig foundations for statues, and even sell tombstones. In this country he went ahead fast—first as a protege of the late Joseph Urban, later as assistant to Sculptors Carl Paul Jennewein and Paul Manship. On his own now, he has designed sculptures for several U.S. Government buildings, has exhibited widely, and a few years ago won a prize from the National Sculpture society for his bas-reliefs. He has also designed three commemorative half-dollar pieces: the Charter Oak Half Dollar for the Connecticut Tercentenary, the P.T. Barnum Half Dollar for Bridgeport’s centennial, and the Senator Robinson Half Dollar for the Arkansas centennial.
Antonio Petruccelli, Illustrator
Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Antonio Petruccelli, Illustrator
Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
Norman Reeves, Illustrator
Eleanor Treacy, Art Director
