George Brehm (1878-1966), “Do You Mean to Stand There an’ Tell Me You Has Lost my Ring?” for The Malady Lingers On by Octavus Roy Cohen, signed 1945. Charcoal sketch. Graphic Arts Collection GA 2007.00212

George Brehm (1878-1966) gave this sketch to his friend Al Pach in 1945. It was a study for the illustration “Do You Mean to Stand There an’ Tell Me You Has Lost My Ring?” published in the November 12, 1938, Saturday Evening Post with the story The Malady Lingers On by Octavus Roy Cohen (1891-1959).

The Indiana-born artist spent most of his working life in New York City, drawing for a variety of publications, including The American Magazine, Broadway Magazine Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Country Gentleman, The Delineator, Good Housekeeping, Harper’s Monthly, Ladies Home Journal, McCall’s, Metropolitan Magazine, Munsey’s, Pictorial Review, The Red Book Magazine, and Woman’s Home Companion.