fun vintage cookbook art by lou peters
posted by the scholar on August 10th, 2007filed under: art, artists, illustration
if you have looked at more than one post here in this space, you probably know that my tastes run pretty eclectic. as much as i enjoy modern and contemporary art and craft, i’m also a big fan of mid-century style, so i was grinning ear to ear when i saw these great vintage cookbook illustrations on ward jenkins’ fun blog.
every time i look at drawings from this period, i totally imagine that i’m one of the people in them. everyone looks so cheery and carefree — especially that girl in the green dress sipping a sweet tea!
more of lou’s artwork on ward’s flickr photostream.
dig deep into the interweb, and you might just find the original cookbooks for sale.
via drawn!
August 21st, 2009 at 9:25 pm
Nice to see someone else enjoys Lou Brock’s illustrations from the Culinary Arts Institute Cookbooks from the 40’s and 50’s. I have several boxes full of the original illustrations-copies of most of the cookbooks and NO IDEA WHO HE WAS/IS. Every so often I open the box, look at them and wonder what to do with all these pretty little drawings and watercolors from all the artists that created them!!!