Sunday, May 01, 2022
Wish You Were Here, from a Grace Drayton Imitator
Here's another Campbell Soup Kids card, this one #1 from the series. As with the previous card featured here, I would once again wonder out loud if this was penned by Drayton herself or an imitator. However, the girl holding the pot wears an expression I can't imagine Drayton would have drawn in a million years.
Labels: Wish You Were Here
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Hello Allan-
Yes, you are right, it sure isn't Grace Drayton. It isn't even a good fake. I would suppose the Campbell company decided that the moppets were their property, and didn't need to have her do all the art for all the ads, just use her stuff as a style guide. Some of the kids shown here appear to be closer approximations, even traces, of actual Drayton figures, but others don't resemble any effort to copy her.
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Yes, you are right, it sure isn't Grace Drayton. It isn't even a good fake. I would suppose the Campbell company decided that the moppets were their property, and didn't need to have her do all the art for all the ads, just use her stuff as a style guide. Some of the kids shown here appear to be closer approximations, even traces, of actual Drayton figures, but others don't resemble any effort to copy her.
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