{"id":20869,"date":"2021-09-20T16:32:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T15:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20869"},"modified":"2021-09-21T20:10:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T19:10:03","slug":"the-art-of-gordon-ertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2021\/09\/20\/the-art-of-gordon-ertz\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of Gordon Ertz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November 1926.<\/em><\/p>\n

After posting a couple of magazine covers by American illustrator Gordon Ertz I thought he deserved a closer look, especially when documentation about his life is lacking; even the Library of Congress only lists his birth year, 1891, while nobody seems to know when he died. (Update:<\/strong> See the comment below by Douglas A. Anderson for biographical details.) Mr TjZ is to thank for this post (thanks!) after identifying one of the Double-Dealer<\/em> covers as an Ertz. I said in a mail to Joe that I’d not seen Gordon Ertz’s name before, but a consequence of writing these posts for so many years is finding that I have<\/em> mentioned somebody a decade or more ago then forgotten all about them. Thus it was with Ertz whose cover for The Golden Book<\/em> first appeared here in 2010.<\/p>\n

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The Inland Printer<\/em> was a magazine for the print trade which commissioned covers from illustrators, all of whom seem to have been given free reign. Or they were until the 1920s when the magazine abandoned this kind of frivolity. Most of the available Ertz oeuvre is magazine covers and book illustrations from the 1910s to the 1920s, but his later work includes this map<\/a> from 1936 intended as a guide for the anglers of North America. The map was designed and annotated by Joe Godfrey Jr, a writer whose subsequent books about fresh-water and salt-water fish were also illustrated by Ertz.<\/p>\n

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Above and below: Green Wings<\/em><\/a> (1921) was a book of poetry which Ertz illustrated throughout.<\/p>\n

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An illustration from Echoes<\/a><\/em> (1921), another book of poetry, this time by Donald Robertson. The book contained as many illustrations as Green Wings<\/em> but the copy at the Internet Archive has suffered from the bane of the illustrated volume, plate theft.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Covers for The Double-Dealer<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Golden Book<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

November 1926. After posting a couple of magazine covers by American illustrator Gordon Ertz I thought he deserved a closer look, especially when documentation about his life is lacking; even the Library of Congress only lists his birth year, 1891, while nobody seems to know when he died. (Update: See the comment below by Douglas … Continue reading “The art of Gordon Ertz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: The art of Gordon Ertz","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,48,43],"tags":[11777,11779,1547,11776,9377],"class_list":["post-20869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-illustrators","category-magazines","tag-donald-robertson","tag-dorothy-leeming","tag-gordon-ertz","tag-joe-godfrey-jr","tag-the-inland-printer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5qB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}