Medium: Gouache on paper
Subject: Cover design for Marion Strobel's Kiss and Kill (1935)
Dimensions: 12" W x 15" H (sight)
Frame: New blond wood frame, matted under glass
Condition: Used condition; wear consistent with age
Original gouache spec painting produced for the cover of Marion Strobel's 1935 novel Kiss and Kill. It is not known which edition this design was ultimately used for, or if this was solely a comp. The work is in used condition with wear consistent with age. Housed under glass in a new blond wood frame and matted.
Marion Strobel (1895–1967) was an American poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor based in Chicago. She served as associate editor of Poetry magazine from 1920 to 1925 and remained associated with the publication for more than four decades. Her poetry collections include Once in a Blue Moon (1925) and Lost City (1928); her novels include Saturday Afternoon (1930), A Woman of Fashion (1931), Silvia's in Town (1933), Kiss and Kill (1935), and Ice Before Killing (1943).
Strobel married Dr. James Herbert Mitchell in 1922, and the couple had two daughters, one of whom was the Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell.
Medium: Gouache on paper
Subject: Cover design for Marion Strobel's Kiss and Kill (1935)
Dimensions: 12" W x 15" H (sight)
Frame: New blond wood frame, matted under glass
Condition: Used condition; wear consistent with age
Original gouache spec painting produced for the cover of Marion Strobel's 1935 novel Kiss and Kill. It is not known which edition this design was ultimately used for, or if this was solely a comp. The work is in used condition with wear consistent with age. Housed under glass in a new blond wood frame and matted.
Marion Strobel (1895–1967) was an American poet, fiction writer, critic, and editor based in Chicago. She served as associate editor of Poetry magazine from 1920 to 1925 and remained associated with the publication for more than four decades. Her poetry collections include Once in a Blue Moon (1925) and Lost City (1928); her novels include Saturday Afternoon (1930), A Woman of Fashion (1931), Silvia's in Town (1933), Kiss and Kill (1935), and Ice Before Killing (1943).
Strobel married Dr. James Herbert Mitchell in 1922, and the couple had two daughters, one of whom was the Abstract Expressionist painter Joan Mitchell.
