The little galleries of commercial art which constitute the advertising sections of the better magazines become yearly more creative. Last week, when the Ninth Annual Exhibition of Advertising Art was shown in Manhattan's Art Center, there was scarcely a picture which would not have seemed startling in the prosy advertising pages of a decade ago. Among the medallists:
Miguel Covarrubias, famed young Mexican caricaturist; for his figure painting for Steinway pianos symbolizing George Gershwin's tone poem "An American in Paris"a bright pastiche of cafe awnings, waiters, cocottes, gendarmes, public lavabos, seltzer bottles,...
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