ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN - TYPED LETTER SIGNED - HFSID 31860

ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN
Saturday Evening Post artist signs this typed letter on the letterhead of the Artists and Writers Golf Association to tell gossip columnist Louis Sobol about a model calendar for the Stork Club and how "words I elected myself art director of the Stork Club".
Typed letter signed "Arthur/William/Brown - ". Pencil marks on page 1 in unknown hand. 2 pages, 8 ½ x 11, single-sided, on letterhead of the Artists and Writers Golf Association. Dated "Saturday". In full: "Dear Louis Sobol: You were elected to the Artist and writers last Thursday, and will probably get a letter from Charlie Williams in a day or soofficially informing you. It's a swell little club and I think you'll enjoy being one of us. Nobody as far as I know has mentioned in print the Stork Club calender [sic]. As I am the father of it, how it happened might make a paragraph. About a year ago Sherman gave an artists and models party. One of the prizes was a drawing of one o fht models by me to be used as a Stork Club postcard. I chose Gorgia Carroll, and when I brought the drawing in Sherman was very taken with it. After a few drinks on the house I got the idea of getting well known illustrators to make drawings to be used as postcards and then have a calender [sic] at the end of the year. In other words I elected myself art director of the Stork Club.The outcome is the calender [sic] and it's been a great success. Here are the artists besides myself who contributed, and for free. The drawings now hang in the new room of the Stork, and the phographs [sic] of the artists by Hal Phyfe hand in the Ladies Powder Rooms. Very pleasant surroundings for us. Here they are besides myself Carolyn Edmundson,Bradshaw Crandell, Dean Cornwell,Earl Cordey, James Montgomery Flagg, John Falter, Gilbert Bundy, Floyd Davis, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, Russell Patterson, John LaGatta Sincerely".New York journalist LOUIS SOBOL (1896-1986) wrote a gossip-oriented entertainment column for 40 years, initially focused on the Broadway stage but also covering film and TV personalities. His books include The Longest Street, a Broadway memoir. He retired in 1967. ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN (1881-1966), an artist for The Saturday Evening Post, wasa school drop-out who got his start in drawing by selling his sketches to newspapers while working on a steamer. He got a job drawing at The Saturday Evening Post after tagging along with a friend who was covering a circus for the magazine. Brown worked for The Saturday Evening Post for 40 years, with his pencils appearing in most issues starting in the late 1910's. He also drew story art for other magazines and book art for books, as well as drawing patriotic posters during World War I. Lightly toned and creased. Light tear in top right corner of page one. Folded once horizontally and twice vertically and unfolded. Otherwise, fine condition.