{"id":38523,"date":"2022-08-12T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T11:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=38523"},"modified":"2022-08-12T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T14:44:23","slug":"artists-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/12\/artists-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists&#8217; Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38524\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/12\/artists-corner\/artists-corner-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?fit=640%2C657&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,657\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Artists-corner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Taws newsletter&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?fit=640%2C657&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38524\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?resize=640%2C657&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?resize=292%2C300&amp;ssl=1 292w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Artists-corner.jpg?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThis was a little cartoon I did when I worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/08\/05\/henry-h-has-left-the-building\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Taws<\/em><\/a> which was an art supply store located in Center City Philadelphia. This was for a short-lived newsletter published by the store called <em>100% Rag. <\/em>I thought I had a copy, but I couldn&#8217;t find one. It may have gone only two or three issues. I think my little French man was on the back in the upper corner and was part of a column on technical tips and tricks for artists.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"1527 Walnut circa 1991\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/25494626363\/in\/photolist-HeUv9e-EQSCcv-5JEwTg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/live.staticflickr.com\/1502\/25494626363_a90af3b36a_z.jpg?resize=640%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"1527 Walnut circa 1991\" width=\"640\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Interior of Henry H. Taws as it was in 1991<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a little cartoon I did when I worked at Taws which was an art supply store located in Center City Philadelphia. This was for a short-lived newsletter published by the store called 100% Rag. I thought I had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/12\/artists-corner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,7,104],"tags":[5421,1715,5419,17,5417,5,5420,5418,354,3669,1716,3649],"class_list":["post-38523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-illustration","category-philadelphia","tag-1527-walnut","tag-art-supplies","tag-artist","tag-cartoon","tag-defunct","tag-joe-williams","tag-newsletter","tag-out-of-business","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-store","tag-taws"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-a1l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19374,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/08\/05\/henry-h-has-left-the-building\/","url_meta":{"origin":38523,"position":0},"title":"Henry H Has Left the Building","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"August 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"An art supply store has operated from this locale close to the corner of 16th and Walnut in what's known as Center City Philadelphia since 1897. It has changed hands a number of times through the decades, but it's always been known as Henry H. Taws. When I went to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Taws Artist Materials circa 1988","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/henry-h-taws-1988.jpg?fit=640%2C446&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/henry-h-taws-1988.jpg?fit=640%2C446&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/henry-h-taws-1988.jpg?fit=640%2C446&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":20772,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/06\/15\/near-16th-walnut-circa-1991\/","url_meta":{"origin":38523,"position":1},"title":"Near 16th &#038; Walnut Circa 1991","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 15, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the paper counter of a Philadelphia art supply store I've written about before. Papers and art boards would be ordered as one would order meats and cheeses at a deli counter. A member of the large staff would wrap up the paper or boards and would tally up\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blast from the Past&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blast from the Past","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/blast-from-the-past\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Taws 1991","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7313\/27067985793_cdca43145c_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7313\/27067985793_cdca43145c_z.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/8\/7313\/27067985793_cdca43145c_z.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43419,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/06\/18\/scratching-a-scratchboard-itch\/","url_meta":{"origin":38523,"position":2},"title":"Scratching a Scratchboard Itch","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"June 18, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The recent closure of The University of the Arts has set me careening down memory lane like a runaway train crashing into memories of my days at The Philadelphia College of Art. 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