Billy cuts loose: "Count me out of this! I'm no magician and I'm no ghost tamer."

© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum…
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN.
Billy cuts loose: "Count me out of this! I'm no magician and I'm no ghost tamer."
© SEPS: Curtis Publishing, Indianapolis, IN. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Billy cuts loose: "Count me out of this! I'm no magician and I'm no ghost tamer."

Date1940
Artist (American artist, 1884–1969)
Illustration Citation"Micrometer Fever," by Ray Millholland, in The Saturday Evening Post, October 12, 1940
MediumInk, gouache, charcoal, and crayon on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 14 13/16 × 21 3/4 in. (37.6 × 55.2 cm)
sheet: 19 3/8 × 25 5/8 in. (49.2 × 65.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of F. Marsden and Zenna Mae London, 1988
Object number1988-96
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this illustration, tension erupts among a group of aviation mechanics, including the disillusioned seated figure who has lost his patience with his arguing co-workers.

Earle Winslow studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit School of Fine Arts, and atthe Art Students League with George Bellows. The latter also guided him during the summers at Woodstock (NY). From 1921 to 1924, Winslow created and drew the Bingville Bugle comic strip at the Woodstock's Invisible Ink Studios. By 1929 he had his own studio in New York City. He illustrated for The Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Women's Home Companion, Liberty, and Outdoor Life. During World War II, the US Marines and the Forestry Service commissioned him for posters and instructional manuasl. Beginning in 1948 he was an instructor at Pratt Institute and at other visual arts and cartoon schools before moving permanently to Woodstock.


IMLS Logo