Edmund Joseph Sullivan

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Edmund Joseph Sullivan
1869-1933
What an Awful Fag! Why Don't You Smoke Players? Players Navy Cut
1920s?
Brown ink and graphite on paper.
19 15/16 x 14 15/16 inches (507 x 380 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.1666
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Original preliminary sketch by Edmund J. Sullivan for a design for an advertisement for Players cigarettes.

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In ink at top, "Players "Navy Cut"; captioned in ink below image, "What an Awful Fag! Why Don't You Smoke Players? Players Navy Cut"; in pen at lower right, "By Edmund J. Sullivan A.R.W.S. / A.R.E.".

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Sketch shows two naval officers on the deck of a ship, one with a cigarette in his mouth.

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