For over 50 years, the famed Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the symbol for the Northwest Paper division of Potlatch Corporation. The examples here are from 1939. There is a collection of many more at the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
The campaign, which compares with Coca Cola’s Haddon Sundblom advertising art, started at the outset of the Great Depression, “when the then-struggling Minnesota Paper Company sought an advertising theme that would establish its product as strong, dependable and consistently able to do the job well.”
The most prolific of the artists was Arnold Friberg (1913–2010), a successful historical illustrator who is represented below and here. I found these in vintage issues of The American Printer and they stood right out.
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