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MAXWELL FOSTER. "The Best in Ameerikay." Oil on canvas. 813x610 mm; 32x24 inches. Signed, titled, and dated 1927 by Foster in image, lower left. Advertisement for the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. On original stretcher; canvas pulled and slightly buckled, some surface soiling and craquelure, three minor areas of abrasion and one 1-inch puncture to canvas.
A detailed folk painting advertisement by Foster of a mid-Atlantic tobacco farmer chewing on a cigar. A strong image in need of some restoration. Listed in Library of Congress copyright for 1927.
