The Etude Cover Gallery now shows 365 items, starting with the earliest cover from my collection -- January, 1901 -- and ending with the December, 1955 issue.
I did not expect to make such a concerted project of the covers, but the more I looked at them the more appealing they became to me. It reminded me of LP records and how generously endowed some were with large poster-size prints and artwork. Compact Discs, by comparison, generally offer impossible-to-read booklets if they provide any supplementary material at all.
These Etude Magazine covers seem lavish compared to modern products, though the quality of the Etude covers as art took a hit starting with the April, 1951 cover, featuring a new logo and a garish banner across the top.
An interesting cover I wanted to share appeared on the August, 1945 edition. Signed by an artist named Morgan this strange cover features an audience of insects enjoying the performance of a violin/cello cricket duo. Or are these performers another type of insect? My entymology is not so sharp as my other skills, but whatever these little creatures are they found their stage on a mushroom and are seen here making music in a thicket.
There is no information about this cover within the pages of The Etude, so the only extra detail I can glean is that artist's name is "Morgan" -- at least I think that's what the signature in the lower-right corner says.
