Samuel Nelson Abbott advertisement illustration for Hart Schaffner & Marx: a beautifully framed antique

Advertisement: Hart Schaffner & Marx    "What Satisfies you in Clothes?"    By Samuel Nelson Abbott    Centerfold in The Saturday Evening Post     March 19, 1921 Issue    IMAGE INFORMATION    Image Size: H 13.25” x W 20.50”    Matted & Framed:  H 20.25” x W 27.50”    Framed Price: $325.00      Packaging and shipping approximately $28.00   SNA went to France at the age of twenty where, like other American artists, he studied at the Academy Julian. He received reportedly instruction from Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.  Laurens is remembered as “one of the last major exponents of the French Academic style." (His most celebrated student, George Barbier, was, however, pioneer in the Art Deco, a bold new mode of graphic design that was antithetical to Lauren’s academic formalism.) Benjamin-Constant was a celebrated figurist (Reclining Odalisque, 1879) and orientalist (Les nuits arabes, undated) Upon his return from France, in about 1898, SNA settled in New Yo