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The Permanent Wave Wall Art
ART BY: William Ely Hill
The Permanent Wave Wall Art
ART BY: William Ely Hill
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About this artwork
The Permanent Wave is a public-domain artwork by William Ely Hill (1887–1962), dated 1926. The artist is catalogued as American. The high-resolution file measures 3340 × 4404 px (3.9 MB). You will find it among Illustration and Art Deco, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 83 works by William Ely Hill, an American artist.
William Ely Hill was an American cartoonist and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his weekly full-page illustration series "Among Us Mortals" published in the New York Tribune from 1916 to 1922, and for creating the most popular iteration of the optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law (1915).
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by William Ely Hill →
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