Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Owned by Mrs Frenchy herself

Owned by Mrs Frenchy herself - also called Mamie Richards - it was a cheap place for burgers

Despite Matulay's wide ranging career and position as one of New York's most sought after illustrators in the mid-to late-20th century — one of the most pivotal eras in graphic design history — his name is relatively unknown today

If you look carefully at the image you can see that the vast majority of the people are in uniforms

Ladies with rosy cheeks and beefy men think only of pleasure

Cafe Society, New York 1943 Sizes:A3+ (329x483mm, 13x19 inch) Archival Print (Unframed) Owned by Mrs Frenchy herselfRestaurateur Barney Josephson already owned the trailblazing Cafe Society in Greenwich Village the interracial nightclub where black and white musicians performed for mixed audiences in the 1930s and 40s. The nightclub was also the scene of Billie Holidays first public performance of Strange Fruit, the haunting protest song about black lynchings in the South. Politically astute and an ardent supporter of civil rights, Josephson instructed the great