William Galbraith Crawford

William Galbraith Crawford (1894-1978) studied at Brigham Young University, Art Students League in New York, School of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and the University of Mexico.  He created movie posters for MGM from 1925 to 1944 and cartoons for Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, Vanity Fair, the Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, and the New Yorker (as well as a few cover illustrations).  Most of his work for the New Yorker featured glamorous young ladies with rich, older men.  His work on “Side Glances,” a family oriented syndicated newspaper cartoon he assumed from 1939 to 1962, was decidedly more wholesome.  He signed his work “Galbraith” (to avoid confusion with cartoonist Bill Crawford).