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ELMER SIMMS CAMPBELL.

“I used to know her - four checkbooks

ago.” Watercolor, gouache, and pencil on

board. 380X250 mm; 15x9

3

/

4

inches.

Signed in image, lower right, dated

September 1936 on verso, likely for

Esquire. Matted.

[1,200/1,800]

Simms Campbell was one of the highest paid

illustrators in the United States from the

1930s and into the 1960s and was one of the

only African-American illustrators working in

the field. As the creator of Esquire’s mascot

“Esky,” nearly every issue of Esquire during

his heyday included one of his works. He also

contributed to Playboy and the NewYorker.