What can you tell me about these images?

May 5, 2017 8:58 PM

Imgur link to both. One is obviously derived from the other (not sure which).

The first is all over the internet but with no context. I can see a signature "Schroeder"- can the artist be identified? I found the second image on newspapers.com by searching for the caption "Oven's eye view of the world's best cook" (El Paso Herald-Post and a few other newspapers, February 22 1956). Which is the original image? Was one plagiarized from the other?

posted by dilaudid to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

The second one looks like they've all been smoking weed, so I'd say the first is the original and the second is a badly rendered derivative for a newspaper advert.
posted by Thella at 9:22 PM on May 5, 2017

It looks like Schroeder was an artist for Greyhound for a few decades. Here's one. (You can just barely make out the signature, but it looks similar.) Here's another. (No signature I can see, but it's listed as a Schroeder by the seller.) I find references to Schroeder Greyhound ads as early as 1938, so if this is all the same artist they were active for at least a couple of decades. I agree with Thella that your second image looks like a rip-off of the first.
posted by Ursula Hitler at 11:42 PM on May 5, 2017

Here's the original ad
posted by belladonna at 5:52 AM on May 6, 2017

I suspect the artist is Ernie Schroeder, who worked as a commercial illustrator around the 1950s.
posted by belladonna at 6:45 AM on May 6, 2017