Artist: Mac Conner (1913- 2019)
D. B. Dowd, 2015:
“...Florence and Richard Lockridge’s noir tale “There’s Death
for Remembrance” typifies the assignments Mac received from This Week. This
two-part story centers on the murder of Fern Hartley, shown here in mid-air,
falling down a flight of stairs to her death. Hartley had been attending a
dinner party and reunion of high school friends when her incessant reminiscing
provoked someone to silence her. The following week Conner’s illustration shows
dinner guests looking down at Fern’s lifeless body.
This Week Magazine was a syndicated free newspaper
supplement inserted into local Sunday newspapers. Published from 1935-1969, at
This Week’s height it appeared in 42 papers nationwide. As many as 13 million
people may have seen this image in print, dwarfing the audience for Conner’s
magazine work. It’s appropriate that his biggest audience would see such a
representative work–featuring the trademark Conner inventive point-of-view.”
