Schmucker Postcards

The art of Samuel Schmucker runs from the very plain to the sublime. The work he submitted to the Winsch Publishing Co. that was associated with Halloween is beautiful, captivating, and adds energy to the holiday. One of the issues that we are presently dealing with concerns itself with the impact of art and artists upon the public mind before the days of television. When you consider that postcards and posters made up 50% or more of the images people saw in their daily lives, it's not hard to imagine that this art had a great deal to do with how Americans saw themselves and their society. As we look at Halloween postcards we see all the basic concepts of Halloween, so is art imitating society, or were the artists drawing images of what they saw as relevant to the holiday. Schmucker certainly seems to be making a statement with his beautiful and stylish witches. Winsch seemingly added the work of Jason Frexias to the work of Schmucker in creating some very interesting cards. If you know anything about Winsch's use of combined artists I'd like to know more. Did the artists know he was going to combine work? Did they work together prior to submission? Was this their idea or something Winsch did on his own?