Playboy : a portfolio of art and satire
odd: label: Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint)
content: New York : Egmont Arens, 1919-1924.
label: General
content: "A portfolio of art and satire."
name: label: Names
content: Arens, Egmont, 1889-1966
label: Names
content: Biddle, George, 1885-1973
label: Names
content: Blum, Jerome, 1884-1956
label: Names
content: Chapin, James, 1887-1975
label: Names
content: Dehn, Adolf, 1895-1968
label: Names
content: Gropper, William, 1897-1977
label: Names
content: Robinson, Boardman, 1876-1952
label: Names
content: Weber, Max, 1881-1961
label: Names
content: Zorach, Marguerite, 1887-1968
label: Names
content: Zorach, William, 1887-1966
title: label: Topic
content: Playboy (New York, N.Y.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Artists
label: Topic
content: Magazine illustration
label: Topic
content: Art publishing
label: Topic
content: Art -- Periodicals
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: One issue (v.2, no.1, 1923) donated 1981 by Irving Burton, an art collector and member of the Archives' Board of Trustees. A complete bound run donated by Mildred Baker, 1993. Baker, in addition to being an assistant to Holger Cahill, who served as director on the Federal Art Project and organizer of several art exhibitions in New York in the 1930s, also worked for the College Art Association and a gallery on 57th Street.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art periodical, New York, N.Y, devoted to the exposition of contemporary literary and artistic expression. Playboy ran from January 1919 to June 1924. Publication was suspended from July 1921 to February 1923. Nos. 4-5 issued in one number. Issue for 1st quarter 1923 called v. 2, no. 1 but would be no. 8 in whole numbering sequence.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Volumes (ill. plates, ports, 30 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1919-1924
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.playboy
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Volumes
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Vol. 2, No. 1 (1923): 35mm microfilm reel 3097 is available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Complete bound run [v.1-9, 1919-1924]. Contains many original hand-pulled woodcuts and linocuts. Among the many contributing artists are George Biddle, Jerome Blum, James Chapin, Adolf Dehn, William Gropper, Alfred Maurer, Boardman Robinson, John Storrs, F. Vollaton, Max Weber, and Marguerite and William Zorach. Ezra Pound, Dorothy Parker, and Robert C. Benchley are among the many well known literary contributors.