Above: Detail

Above: Full view of gouache painting

An unusual and impacting Edwin Georgi interior illustration that appeared in the March 1952 edition of Cosmopolitan magazine in a story titled “The Coward.” A luminous and other wordly Georgi-girl seemingly kissing an enlisted soldier engaged in fierce combat goodbye.

Above: Detail

Above: The artist’s signature and frame profile

Edwin Georgi is our favorite late period illustrator his style is inventive, original and unique. Numerous examples of his “Georgi Girl” depictions hang in the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Above: Framed in fine gallery frame behind glass

Above: Verso Cosmopolitan Magazine Inkstamp

Above: Artist’s medium instructions on verso