Colorful image from a series of “College Curses” by Hibberd Van Buren Kline. Entitled “Beauty,” it shows a young man in a red and white striped suit with a small dog, hat, cigarette, fancy shoes, and cane with tied ribbon bow. He is wearing a beauty meet medal on his right lapel. A powder duster is to his left bears the motto “Vanitas,” a joke on college emblems that incorporate the word “Veritas.”<\/p>\n
Hibberd Van Buren Kline was an illustrator, etcher and painter. He was a member of the Salamagundi Club and American Federation of the Arts, and a professor at Syracuse University. Kline created book illustrations, posters, and contributed to national magazines. Among his book illustrations were those for A Geography of Man<\/strong> by noted geographer Preston E. James, first published in 1949, and reissued several times. His works are in the collection of the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n Reference:<\/p>\n Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art<\/i>. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p. 342.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hibberd V. B. Kline (1885-) (after) Colorful image from a series of “College Curses” by Hibberd Van Buren Kline. Entitled “Beauty,” it shows a young man in a red and white striped suit with a small dog, hat, cigarette, fancy shoes, and cane with tied ribbon bow. He is wearing a beauty meet medal on his right lapel. A powder duster is to his left bears the motto “Vanitas,” a joke on college emblems that incorporate the word “Veritas.”<\/p>\n Product description continues below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5947,"template":"","meta":{"wds_primary_product_brand":0,"wds_primary_product_cat":0,"footnotes":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5051],"product_tag":[61,5804,1571,1645,2817,2815,1610,2816,2813,1673,2140,1820,2201],"class_list":{"0":"post-5946","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-archive-sold-history-people","7":"product_tag-20th-century","8":"product_tag-beauty","9":"product_tag-chromolithograph","10":"product_tag-college","11":"product_tag-curses","12":"product_tag-hibberd","13":"product_tag-humor","14":"product_tag-kline","15":"product_tag-poster","16":"product_tag-print","17":"product_tag-satire","18":"product_tag-student","19":"product_tag-vanity","20":"post","21":"post-with-thumbnail","22":"post-with-thumbnail-large","24":"first","25":"instock","26":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16941,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5946\/revisions\/16941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5946"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nCollege Curses – Beauty<\/strong>
\nClose, Graham & Scully Inc., New York: 1909
\nChromolithograph
\n22.5 x 14 inches, overall
\n21 x 12 inches, image<\/p>\n