Arts Playlist: A firsthand look at the Delaware Art Museum’s immersive “Jazz Age Illustration” exhibit

Kyle McKinnon, DPM

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Delaware Art Museum

The Delaware Art Museum’s new exhibition “Jazz Age Illustration” showcases the Jazz Age of the early 20th Century.

It’s the first major exhibit to highlight the era’s popular illustrative artwork, and features special programming and events around it such as jazz concerts and an era-themed gala.

In this edition of Arts Playlist, Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon sat down with curator Heather Campbell Coyle at the Delaware Art Museum for a firsthand look at “Jazz Age Illustration.”

DPM's Kyle McKinnon explores the new “Jazz Age Illustration" exhibit with curator Heather Campbell Coyle at the Delaware Art Museum

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Douglas Duer (1887–1964)
I'm billed all over Paris to appear with two lions and a tiger, 1931 for "Danger Calling," by Patricia Wentworth, in Pictorial Review, April 1931
Oil on canvas
29 3/4 × 43 5/8 in. (75.6 × 110.8 cm)
Frame: 33 × 47 in. (83.8 × 119.4 cm)
Gift of Grace C. Duer, 1980 © Artist's Estate or Publisher

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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Michael Dolas (1912–2010)
Eric broke through the State line, 1938for “Quitter” by Bob Considine, in Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, December 1938
Oil on canvas
33 × 48 1/8 in. (83.8 × 122.2 cm)
Frame: 34 1/2 × 49 5/8 × 1 1/4 in. (87.6 × 126 × 3.2 cm)
From the collection of Lura J. Dolas and Theodore M. Dolas. © Artist's Estate or Publisher

Kyle McKinnon, DPM

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Harvey T. Dunn (1884–1952)
When the Whaling Fleet Cleared for the Caribes, 1928, for Advertisement for Duco Paint, Saturday Evening Post, September 22, 1928
Oil on canvas
30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Frame: 35 3/4 × 45 3/4 in. (90.8 × 116.2 cm)
Gift of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, 2017 © Artist or Company

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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Gayle Porter Hoskins (1887–1962)
You can't leave her here to suffer.  Whether you want to or not, you'll have to do it., 1925, for "Roads of Doubt," by William MacLeon Raine, in Woman's Home Companion, February 1925
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 in. (66 x 91.4 cm)
Frame: 28 1/8 × 37 1/2 in. (71.4 × 95.3 cm)
Gayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1979

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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Neysa Moran McMein (1888–1949)
The Admirable Hostess, 1921 for Advertisement for Wallace Silver, published in The Saturday Evening Post, January 8, 1921
Pastel on board
30 1/8 × 28 5/8 in. (76.5 × 72.7 cm)
Frame: 34 × 30 in. (86.4 × 76.2 cm)
Acquisition Fund, 2022

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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Winold Reiss (1886–1953)
Roland Hayes, 1924, for The Survey Graphic, March 1, 1925
Pastel on illustration board
Sheet: 19 7/16 × 16 in. (49.4 × 40.6 cm)
Frame: 24 3/4 × 21 5/16 in. (62.8 × 54.2 cm)
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; purchase funded by Lawrence A. Fleischman and Howard Garfinkle with a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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Anne Harriet Fish (1890–1964)
Careers for Our Girls: The Film Star, 1928 for Unpublished illustration for Hearst's International Combined with Cosmopolitan, December 1928
Gouache, ink, and graphite on paper
Sheet (left): 22 13/16 × 15 1/2 in. (57.9 × 39.4 cm)
Sheet (right): 22 5/8 × 15 1/2 in. (57.5 × 39.4 cm)
Acquisition Fund, 2024

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

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E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971)
Enlargement of A Nightclub Map of Harlem, 1932.
For Manhattan: A Weekly for Wakeful New Yorkers, 1933.
Original: pen and brush on board, 19 1/4 x 30 in.
Yale University, Brinker Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Kyle McKinnon, DPM / Delaware Art Museum

To learn more about the Delaware Art Museum, the Year of the Illustrator, and the “Jazz Age Illustration” exhibition, visit their site. Delaware Public Media's arts coverage is made possible, in part, by support from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency dedicated to nurturing and supporting the arts in Delaware, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.