There are few resources regarding Content on the Internet, perhaps the best of the lot being here. As it notes, he eased out of illustration into art direction, including a stint at Benton & Bowles, a major advertising agency at the time. This was probably a good career move, given the slow decline in high-paying illustration jobs. As an art director, Content got a steady paycheck and didn't have to worry about altering his painting style to keep up with changing illustration fashions.
Content did good, solid work, but remains somewhat obscure perhaps due to his stylistic similarity to much better-known Cornwell.
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A complete set of images for this project can be found here.
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Thanks for featuring Content's work. You can see the great influence of Dean Cornwell's earlier work.
It is interesting that he switched to art direction in his later career. He would have been only 36 in 1938. That was about the time when Cornwell himself changed to a more slick-looking, less painterly style.
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