American Gas Association advertisement; "Ladies, here's how you can help cook a tank!..."

George  Withers (1911-1959) -  artist and illustrator from Witicha, Kansas.  He graduated from Kansas University with a B.A. in Art. Withers attended the Art Students League in New  York on an art scholarship and studied under the great anatomist George  Bridgeman. His commercial career began in Philadelphia working with the  advertising agency, N.W. Ayer &Company. He moved on to the work with  several agencies in New York – McCann-Erickson, Young and Rubicam, Rahl &  Co., Sutton and O’Brien. Withers illustrated stories for many artists including  J.D. Salinger in The Saturday Evening Post, Robert Ruark in Colliers Magazine,  and many others in Redbook Magazine, Field and Stream, Bluebook, Good  Housekeeping, the New York Herald Tribune, Holiday Magazine, and Look. He did  work for commercial and government accounts such as Arrow Shirts, Birdseye,  Presto cake mix, Kolynos, Swan Soap, Smith Corona, Chase & Sanborn,  Campbell’s Soups, Calverts, Bakers Chocolate, Ny Bell, Conoco, Citgo, Ford  Motor Company, Schenleys, Hartford Insurance Company, US War Bonds, FTD  Florists, Syracuse China, Pan Am, Weber and Heilbroner, and the War Advertising  Council. As a war artist he served in the United Kingdom and at European  Theater of Operations in Paris under General Eisenhower. His papers are at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

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