Vinnorma Shaw McKenzie (1890-1994) American Canal Scene with Boats at a Park. 

“A Kansas girl who is attaining success in advertising poster work and commercial art is Miss Vinnorma Shaw, of Downs, Kansas.  Miss Shaw has been teaching art in the high school at Indianapolis, Indiana, but as a sideline she does all the designing and poster work for the stationary and advertisements for the Missouri State Fair.

Miss Shaw is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shaw, of Downs, and is a graduate of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, the Chicago Institute and the Fine Arts School of Yale.  She also holds a Masters Degree from Yale.

During the war she designed posters for the Red Cross and added not a little money to its treasury from the sale of several of her paintings.  Miss Shaw has been doing the mechanical drawings for the Winchester Rifle Company and has handled the Missouri fair work for two years.  The Montana State Fair Association has asked her for some posters.  She does the artwork for several theatrical associations in the East, and for some time has done all the drawings for the Stafford Engraving Company of Indianapolis.

Although she is at present making a specialty of poster work and artistic advertising, Miss Shaw’s exhibits of landscapes and portraits in New York and Chicago have won favorable criticism.  Miss Shaw’s secret ambition, which she admits reluctantly, is to illustrate a “Best Seller.”  Already she has broken into the magazine field and has designed covers for “The Imprint” and “The Horseman,” a sporting monthly."

Overall Size: 27 1/4 x 36 in.

Sight Size: 19 x 27 in.

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