Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, June 1921 · page 65 of 67
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang #21 — page 65: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is an advertising page—not a political cartoon. The American Art Company of Wisconsin is marketing art books and related products, primarily focused on nude figure studies presented as serious artistic instruction and reference materials. The listings emphasize comprehensiveness and educational value. Key offerings include a 350-image collection of masterpieces, anatomical studies of nude subjects (female, male, and child), and high-quality reproductions. There's also a celebrity photo book and movie-star playing cards capitalizing on 1920s-era film industry fascination. The marketing language ("divine expression of beauty," "luxuriant settings") uses fine-art rhetoric to legitimize what may have been perceived as risqué content for the era. The high prices ($7.50-$10) suggest these were marketed as premium, respectable products to serious art students and collectors rather than general consumers.
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World Famous Art Pictures “WORLD FAMOUS ART PICTURES” in book album, size 8x11, handsomely cloth bound, containing 350 photographic reproductions of masterpieces by the world’s greatest artists. The various pictures of the nude, semi-nude, single figures, and groups comprise the largest collection of nude female, male and child subjects ever published in a single volume, and the most complete work of its kind in existence. Printed on heavy enamel paper, in double toned gravures. Weight five pounds. Price $7.50 per copy. Shipped by express only. “STUDIES OF THE HUMAN FIGURE.” A beautiful imported book, size 6x9, containing 78 full page plates, comprising 108 photo-graphic studies from life of the female, male and child subjects, in the nude, with Anatomical Diagrams and Artists’ Studies in all mediums. In artistic ornamental binding. Price $10.00 per copy. Shipped by express. “ALO STUDIES.” The first edition of Alo Nude Studies published in book form, size 5x8, just off the press. Printed in an edition de luxe, with thirty-two full page illustrations and forepiece in elaborate color plates. In these compositions the purity and charm of the nude has been blended amid the luxuriant settings of nature, imparting a divine expression of beauty. A collection of beautiful nudes in book form. Price $2.00 per copy. “WHO’S WHO ON THE SCREEN.” For Motion Picture Fans. Contains 424 pages of beautiful photographs and complete biogra-phies of all the Stars in Screenland. A full page is devoted to each star! Artistically printed on finest coated paper; handsomely bound in Navy Blue Shantung cloth with splendid three-color jacket. Post-paid to any address in the world for $3.50. “MOVIE” Souvenir Playing Cards. This pack is a veritable picture gallery of the celebrities of the “Movie Stage.” The faces show fifty-three beautiful half-tone portraits of the “WORLD’S GREAT-EST MOTION PICTURE STARS.” The pack has regular Playing Card Indexes, 52 Cards and Joker. Highly enameled, flexible, with a high slip and beautiful ivory finish, which makes it a delight to handle. Gold edged cards in handsome telescope cases. Price $1.00 per pack, prepaid. Remit by money order or bank draft. Shipment made within twenty-four hours after receipt of order. THE AMERICAN ART COMPANY Wholesale and Retail JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN, U. S. A.