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Harold Rosenberg had an enviable part-time job at the Advertising Council, where he created Smokey the [sic] Bear. (The sheer deliciousness of it: this cuddly artifact of commercial folklore as the creature of our unyielding modernist!)The official Smokey Bear website created by the Ad Council does not mention Rosenberg, and no mention is made of Smokey Bear in Rosenberg's obituary at Russell, John (July 13, 1978). "Harold Rosenberg Is Dead at 72 Art Critic for The New Yorker". The New York Times.
There has been so much fire in the pines for centuries that, through the resulting processes of natural selection, the species that grow there are not only highly flammable, but are able to tolerate fire and come back quickly ... It is because of fire that pines are predominant in the Pine Barrens.
Harold Rosenberg had an enviable part-time job at the Advertising Council, where he created Smokey the [sic] Bear. (The sheer deliciousness of it: this cuddly artifact of commercial folklore as the creature of our unyielding modernist!)The official Smokey Bear website created by the Ad Council does not mention Rosenberg, and no mention is made of Smokey Bear in Rosenberg's obituary at Russell, John (July 13, 1978). "Harold Rosenberg Is Dead at 72 Art Critic for The New Yorker". The New York Times.
Harold Rosenberg had an enviable part-time job at the Advertising Council, where he created Smokey the [sic] Bear. (The sheer deliciousness of it: this cuddly artifact of commercial folklore as the creature of our unyielding modernist!)The official Smokey Bear website created by the Ad Council does not mention Rosenberg, and no mention is made of Smokey Bear in Rosenberg's obituary at Russell, John (July 13, 1978). "Harold Rosenberg Is Dead at 72 Art Critic for The New Yorker". The New York Times.
On August 9, 1944, the creation of Smokey Bear was authorized by the Forest Service, and the first poster was delivered on October 10 by artist Albert Staehle.