"The minute you scare 'em, it's ten to one on the undertaker."
Date1948
Artist
Hy Rubin
(American illustrator, 1905–1960)
Illustration Citation"No Escape," by Clarence Budington Kelland, in The Saturday Evening Post, June 12, 1948
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 12 1/8 × 10 in. (30.8 × 25.4 cm)
sheet: 13 1/2 × 11 1/16 in. (34.3 × 28.1 cm)
sheet: 13 1/2 × 11 1/16 in. (34.3 × 28.1 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1987
Object number1987-6
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this story about political machinations, an earnest young undercover assistant to a governor has learned that his employer is corrupt. Here, he chats with a savvy acquaintance who warns him not to reveal his covert position or violence will result.Hy Rubin illustrated numerous stories for The Saturday Evening Post; he also wrote a book about his techniques, which was used in art schools.
Arthur Ignatius Keller
1901
