THE CHARLES E. COOPER STUDIO.

The Charles E. Cooper Studio rented three floors in the high rent district of New York. When the magazines started to go out of business, one after another, the money was just not there to pay the overhead, the rent. So when Charles E. Cooper had to down size, one of his salesmen, Bill Erlacher, started his own group, Artists Associates.

While most agents had scores of artists that mostly starved doing a rare job,  Bill worked with a relatively few artists who were the best at what they did, and so he could always find work to keep them busy. 

While the images Charles E Cooper  put in his flyers did not make much difference to his business; the images Bill Erlacher put into his Artists Associates flyers made a huge difference for his business. 

One of the first advertising flyers for Artists Associates.

There is Norman Adams’ art on this flyer and then there is the art of Murray Tinkelman on the Charles E. Cooper flyer.