My last post on the 1936 GM brochures got me fired up to look at more pre-war Automotive illustrations. I came across this interesting gem from the then 3 year old magazine Esquire, touting it's 1935... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
The demise of commercial illustration like this is tragic. Computers and photography just cannot make their subjects as intriguing.
Man this art is fantastic! I really like the Studebaker. The roof line is just perfect. Hood is a bit long but just fine! Thanks for bringing this to us!
I love this kinda stuff! Thanks for posting! The mid thirties is my favorite period for American Automobile styling because cars then were just morphing from square boxes to streamlined design, influenced by aviation, new technology, art deco elements, etc. The Esquire illustrations are very cool, however stylized, with slightly exagerated proportions, giving the cars a more rakish look. Interesting to compare the 35 Ford illustration above with this photo I picked off the internet.
Awesome pictures. We had a set of old encyclopedias when I was a kid that had illustations like those. Cool stuff By the way, with a girl like that with her bathing suit at her ankles, I think I would forget breakfast!!!
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