Description: DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: THIS POSTERPRINT IS REPRODUCED FROM A VINTAGE CHICAGOAN MAGAZINE COVER. THE ARTIST IS CLAYTON RAWSON, BEST KNOWN FOR HIS MYSTERY WRITING AND PEFORMANCES AS AN AMATEUR MAGICIAN....EARLY IN HIS CAREER, 1929, HE MOVED TO CHICAGO AND WORKED AS AN ILLUSTRATOR. THIS PIECE IS VERY COOL - VERY COLORFUL...A GREAT ART DECO STYLE SHOWING SUMMER SPORTS IN CHICAGO - SWIMMING, TENNIS, GOLF, POLO, HORSE RACING, WATER SKIING, NAUTICAL , BOATING, SAILING, AND THE DANCING NIGHT LIFE OF THE CITY! The Chicagoan was an American magazine modeled after the New Yorker published from June 1926 until April 1935. Focusing on the cultural life of the city of Chicago, each issue of the Chicagoan contained art, music, and drama reviews, profiles of personalities and institutions, commentaries on the local scene, and editorials, along with cartoons and original art. The magazine aimed to portray the city as a cultural hub and counter its image as a place of violence and vice. ARTIST: Clayton Rawson (August 15, 1906 – March 1, 1971) was an American mystery writer, editor, and amateur magician. His four novels frequently invoke his great knowledge of stage magic and feature as their fictional detective The Great Merlini, a professional magician who runs a shop selling magic supplies. He also wrote four short stories in 1940 about a stage magician named Don Diavolo, who appears as a minor character in one of the novels featuring The Great Merlini. "Don Diavolo is a magician who perfects his tricks in a Greenwich Village basement where he is frequently visited by the harried Inspector Church of Homicide, either to arrest the Don for an impossible crime or to ask him to solve it." Rawson was born in Elyria, Ohio, the son of Clarence D. and Clara (Smith) Rawson. He became a magician when he was 8 years old. He married Catherine Stone in 1929, the same year he graduated from Ohio State University, and they had four children. He moved to Chicago and worked there as an illustrator. His first novel, Death from a Top Hat, appeared in 1938. He was one of the four founding members of the Mystery Writers of America, which presents the annual Edgar Awards in various categories of mystery writing. All of his novels were written before the founding of this group, but in 1949 and 1967 Rawson received Special Edgar Awards for his various contributions to mystery writing and the MWA, including the founding of the organization's first newsletter, "The Third Degree". Rawson is also credited with writing the organization's first slogan: "Crime Does Not Pay—Enough". Rawson was widely admired by his mystery-writing colleagues, and John Dickson Carr, master of "impossible crime" stories, dedicated the 1965 novel "The House at Satan's Elbow" to him. Rawson was managing editor of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine between 1963 and his death in the United Hospital, Port Chester, N.Y., in 1971. Rawson's burial was apparently in New York. Sometime between 2006 and 2011, his name was inscribed on his parents' double gravestone at a cemetery in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio, noting the family connection and honoring a hometown boy who achieved fame. However, he is not buried there. The date of his death in this added inscription is incorrectly listed as 1970. At least two movies were made based on the Merlini books. One of them, Miracles for Sale (1939), was based on Death from a Top Hat but had no character named Merlini. Instead, Robert Young played the character as "The Great Morgan". The movie The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942), starring Lloyd Nolan, was based on No Coffin for the Corpse, but the Merlini character was replaced by Michael Shayne, a popular fictional private eye at the time, created by the writer Brett Halliday. A 30-minute pilot for a television series was created in 1951, but no further episodes were made. The Transparent Man, written by Rawson, starred Jerome Thor as The Great Merlini — who in this incarnation was a stage magician — with Barbara Cook as his assistant Julie, and featuring E. G. Marshall as a criminal. PLEASE SEE PHOTO FOR DETAILS AND CONDITION OF THIS NEW POSTER SIZE OF POSTER PRINT - 12 X 18 INCHES DATE OF ORIGINAL PRINT, POSTER OR ADVERT - 1930At PosterPrint Shop we look for rare & unusual ITEMS OF commercial graphics from throughout the world. We purchase them and add to our collection. We use our collection to photograph items for production of PosterPrints. The PosterPrints are printed on high quality 48 # acid free PREMIUM GLOSSY PHOTO PAPER (to insure high depth ink holding and wrinkle free product) Most of the PosterPrints have APPROX 1/4" border MARGINS for framing, to use in framing without matting. MOST POSTERPRINTS HAVE IMAGE SIZE OF 11.5 X 17.5. 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