SEE: MAC CONNOR: A NEW YORK LIFE AT MCNY

Beginning September 10th, Mac Connor: A New York Life at The Museum of the the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.   An upcoming exhibit at MCNY in East Harlem will feature the New York saga of one of the original "Mad Men." McCauley (“Mac”) Conner (born 1913) grew up admiring Norman Rockwell magazine covers in his father’s general store. He arrived in New York as a young man to work on wartime Navy publications and stayed on to make a career in the city’s vibrant publishing industry. The exhibition presents Conner’s hand-painted illustrations for advertising campaigns and women’s magazines like Redbook and McCall’s, made during the years after World War II when commercial artists helped to redefine American style and culture. Co-sponsored by The Modern Graphic History Library at Washington University in St. Louis and the Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies: LINK