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Edward Everett Henry was an illustrator and muralist based in New York City, and later resided in New Canaan, Connecticut, and East Hampton, Long Island. Henry studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts and by 1917 he was teaching there. He enlisted in the army during World War I and applied his artistic talent to working in the Camouflage Corps. After the war, he worked regularly as an illustrator for advertising campaigns, books, and magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post<\/strong> and Collier’s.<\/strong> In 1935 he was commissioned by Ford Motor Company to produce a large world map mural for its building at the San Diego World’s Fair. He then entered into partnership with artists Louis Bouch\u00e9 and Allen Saalburg to design and paint murals for other corporate and commercial projects \u2014 the Pennsylvania Railroad and the 1939 New York World’s Fair, among others. Beginning in 1928 until the end of this life he also produced a number of pictorial maps: a double hemisphere world map for the Washington Square Book Shop (1928), a map of the United States for Rand McNally (1930), a map of Trinidad for Barber Asphalt Company (c. 1936-38), a map of the United States showing “your premium dollars at work” for the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (1958), a map of East Hampton for the Chamber of Commerce (1960), and a series of nine literary maps related to classic works such as Moby Dick and Robin Hood (1953-1961). He also made pictorial estate plans for private clients. As author Stephen Hornbsy notes in his history of pictorial maps, Henry had a gift for “successfully combining text and image” of complex subjects in a manner that is highly effective at conveying information with clarity and visual appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cDesigned by Edward Everett Henry.\u00a0 Pub. by the Washington Square Book Shop.\u00a0 27 West 8th Street, New York City.\u00a0 Copyright 1928 by W.S.B.S.\u00a0 All rights reserved in all countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

\u201cE. Everett Henry.\u201d AskArt.com. 2000-2008. http:\/\/www.askart.com\/askart\/h\/e_everett_henry\/e_everett_henry.aspx (3 November 2008).<\/p>\n

“Edward Evertt Henry [1893-1961]: artist, camoufleur & cartographer.” Barron Maps Blog.<\/em> 9 October 2017. http:\/\/www.barronmaps.com\/edward-everett-henry-1893-1961\/ (4 May 2020).<\/p>\n

Hornsby, Stephen J. Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps<\/em>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. pp. 16, 79, 99, 108-109, 119, 183, 243-244, 251.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edward Everett Henry (1893-1961) (after)
\nThe New Map of the World<\/strong>
\nWashington Square Bookshop, New York: 1928
\nColor process print
\n31.5 x 36 inches overall<\/p>\n

Colorful Art Deco double hemisphere map of the world, richly decorated with illustrations of scenes from world history.\u00a0 The geographic entities are colored according to national and colonial divisions (prior to their independence after World War II), with a key in the lower part of the cartouche. The illustrations show scenes of the prehistoric eras of the dinosaurs and Neolithic peoples, ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, knights on horseback in Medieval Europe and the Middle East, the founding and settling of the United States of America, the Napoleonic Wars, and World War I.\u00a0 The hemispheres are surmounted by an anthropomorphized sun and the cartouche lower center shows a gleaming city, with skyscrapers, bridges, railways, airplanes, and factories, all distinctly in the Art Deco taste.\u00a0 The map is colored pink, blue, yellow, brown, green, gray and tan, outlined in black, and surrounded by a scalloped border. Another example of this map, from the collection of the Library of Congress, is illustrated on a full page in Hornsby\u2019s definitive book, Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps.<\/strong> Hornsby observes that “Everett Henry’s spectacular double-hemisphere map shows the influence of art deco, particularly the radiant sun and skyscraper city.\u00a0 The border designs show the advance of civilization from the stone age to the modern age.”<\/p>\n

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