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(MUSIC.) CAMPBELL, E. SIMMS.
A Night-Club Map of Harlem.
Pen and
brush, 19
1
/
4
x 30 inches, on Whatman Drawing Board (24
1
/
2
x 34
1
/
2
inches). Some smudges
and a few pencil marks here and there to the wide blank margins, rubber-stamp “MAN-
HATTAN” in the upper left margin. Pencil jottings on the reverse. Signed, in ink in the
lower right corner of the map in a small box: “Engraved (sic) and copyrighted 1932 by E.
Simms Campbell light wines and beer.”
New York, 1932
[40,000/60,000]
The original artwork for a map that was to appear as the centerfold of Volume 1, Number 1 of the
1932 Manhattan Magazine. The map appeared once again in Esquire, nine months later. Examples
of both are quite scarce. Campbell (1906-1971) started drawing regularly for Esquire in 1933, and
was the magazine’s resident illustrator until the end of the 1950s, becoming famed for drawings that
often featured pin-up women—his “Harlem Girls”—and that had a satirical take on upper-crust