CHAPTER 41
Art and Advertising

In the late 1940s, a very well-known American artist had a connection to Johnson & Johnson first aid products. (And no, it wasn’t because the artist was accident-prone.) This artist had paintings in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and her works were widely exhibited in other places. The artist was Gladys Rockmore Davis, and she was a noted painter of children and other subjects.
In 1948, Johnson & Johnson commissioned Davis to do a series of original paintings of children for an advertising campaign for the Company’s fir