MARTY THE MAN FROM MARS FUN MASK: An original unused vintage WHEATIES cereal box CUT-OUT MASK. by (Johnson, Fridolf) - [1948].
by (Johnson, Fridolf)
MARTY THE MAN FROM MARS FUN MASK: An original unused vintage WHEATIES cereal box CUT-OUT MASK.
by (Johnson, Fridolf)
- Used
- very good
From the estate of the artist & commercial designer Fridolf Johnson, the graphic artist who designed this Wheaties cereal box.
Starting in 1947, Wheaties offered a series of approximately 60 cut-out masks printed on the box.
An illustrator and artist as well as a fine pressman Fridolf Johnson was an editor of American Artist Magazine until his retirement in the 1970's. As a graphic artist, he designed title panels for Hollywood movies and art & typography for advertising as well as dust jacket illustrations. He wrote and illustrated his own children's books in addition to other works. He compiled and edited the Knopf book "Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Work" and the significant Dover reference work "A Treasury of Bookplates From the Renaissance to the Present".
- Bookseller Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (US)
- Book Condition Used - Very good
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher General Mills, [1948].
- Date Published [1948].
- Keywords ILLUSTRATED; EPHEMERA; ADVERTISING ART; COMMERCIAL ART; WHEATIES; BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS; CEREAL BOX COVER; MARTY THE MAN FROM MARS FUN MASK; CUT-OUT MASK; FRIDOLF JOHNSON; GRAPHIC ARTIST; CHILDREN; TOY; PROMOTION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY.