“Pure Milk” (undated)
by Robert Lynn (RL) Lambdin (1886-1981)
18 x 22 in., ink and guache on heavy board
Coppola Collection

Lambdin, a Kansas native, studied for a year at the Denver (CO) School of Art with Henry Read and at the Kansas City Art institute with Charles A. Wilimovsky. He began in the art department of the Rocky Mountain News. After working for the Denver Republican, moved to the Kansas City Star as illustrator of feature stories. He settled in New York City in 1917 as a freelance illustrator for magazines and juvenile books. Much of Lambdin’s early work was done in pen and ink but as line drawing went out of style, he worked in watercolor washes and oils. He painted a number of public murals in the 1930s as a WPA artist.

He has a number of illustrations in this spread out sort of composition, which makes me think that this is the way they were printed and encircled by text as part of a story.

There are no clues for the date on this, but it is indicative of his earlier illustration work, so ca. 1920.

https://ctstatelibrary.org/lambdin-robert/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Federal_Art_Project_artists