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| birth_name = Burr Edwards Giffen |
| birth_name = Burr Edwards Giffen |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1886|3|3}} |
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| birth_place = [[Rockford, Illinois]] |
| birth_place = [[Rockford, Illinois]] |
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| field = [[Artist]], [[Illustrator]] |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965| |
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1965|4|2|1886|3|3}} |
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| death_place = [[Westchester County, New York]] |
| death_place = [[Westchester County, New York]] |
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| style = [[contemporary art]] |
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Revision as of 21:02, 17 September 2024
Burr Giffen | |
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| Born | Burr Edwards Giffen March 3, 1886 |
| Died | April 2, 1965 (aged 79) |
| Known for | Artist, Illustrator |
| Style | contemporary art |
| Spouse | Bertha Tischler Giffen |
Burr E. Giffen (March 3, 1886 - April 2, 1965) was an American artist and illustrator working in New York City. His most famous creation was while he was working for an Advertising Company in 1906. He created the Fisk Tire Company Boy holding a tire and night candle as a proposal sketch in charcoal. This sketch became the company's well-known registered trademarked image by 1911.[1]
Biography
Burr Giffen was born in Rockford, Illinois. When he reached the age of 4, he moved to Des Moines, Iowa where his father Marvin Q Giffen, was successful in the wholesale furniture business. Burr was noted without an occupation in the 1905 Iowa Census and soon left for New York City.[2]
In 1906, he was a fledgling working for an ad agency known as Wagner and Field. Giffen says he got the inspiration for the drawing at 3 A.M., sat down on his bed and rapidly sketched the little boy with a tire over his right shoulder and a candle held in his left hand. Simultaneously. he coined the slogan: "Time to Re-tire." [3]
The sketch was an instant hit with the Fisk Rubber Co., which a few years earlier had introduced its first pneumatic automobile tire. Its first appearance in an ad was in the March 7, 1914. issue of the Saturday Evening Post.[4][5]
Norman Rockwell was one of the artists whom illustrated the Fisk Tire Boy which only led to the image's popularity.[6]
Over the decades, the tousle-haired, sleepy-time boy appeared on every Fisk car and truck tire, in ads, on all stationery, booklets, posters, TV slides, calendars, tire store displays and even on clock faces.[7]
See also
References
- ^ https://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/items/show/8685#?c=&m=&s=&cv= Chicopee Public Library Archives online
- ^ ancestry.com Iowa State Census Card no. 439
- ^ Transcript Telegram Newspaper May 6, 1956
- ^ https://www.chicopeepubliclibrary.org/archives/items/show/8685#?c=&m=&s=&cv= Chicopee Public Library Archives online
- ^ Morning Union Newapaper June 12, 1956
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=zwAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=%22burr+giffen%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwithvDo_8WIAxXJmYkEHWbeAj0Q6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=%22burr%20giffen%22&f=true Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb 1959
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=zwAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34&dq=%22burr+giffen%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwithvDo_8WIAxXJmYkEHWbeAj0Q6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q=%22burr%20giffen%22&f=true Kiplinger's Personal Finance Feb 1959
External links
- https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/126382/149/37A.pdf Doctoral dissertation, Pau Megano-Drigas University of Barcelona Part 1
- https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/126382/149/37B.pdf Doctoral dissertation, Pau Megano-Drigas University of Barcelona Part 2
- https://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/126382/149/37C.pdf Doctoral dissertation, Pau Megano-Drigas University of Barcelona Part 3
- https://www.pbs.org/video/antiques-roadshow-appraisal-fisk-tire-boy-time-re-tire-sign-ca-1920/ PBS Antiques Roadshow on Fisk Tire Boy