The signature "ANNE CHUSE" appears in block capitals at lower left on the cover of The Etude Music Magazine for February 1928, beneath an illustration captioned "Mazie's Dream After the Orchestra Concert". The design shows a child in a tam-o'-shanter and plaid coat, holding a tuba mouthpiece and a sheet of music, standing on a floor of oversized piano keys before a seated woman in an orange skirt and lace-cuffed bodice reading from a score; a double bass, harp, tuba, clarinet, organ pipes, a bracket clock and a shelf of books fill the space behind them, with a stave of notation running across the upper register. The manner is linear and decorative — firm contour, flat patterned colour, ornamental rather than illusionistic space. An Anne R. Chuse is recorded as the author and illustrator of Costume Design, published by Bridgman Publishers in 1930, a survey of dress from antiquity to the twentieth century illustrated throughout in black and white. The identification with the signature on this cover is probable but not established. It rests on an uncommon surname, a matching given name, the same period, the same profession, and a specialism in historical costume that this cover's careful period dress would draw on directly. No document connecting the two has been located. Beyond that, nothing is recorded. Nationality, dates and training are unknown, no interior credit for the cover art has been identified, and the extent of the body of work is undetermined. The Record Institute records the signature and states the probable identification as an inference, not as a finding.
Nationality: ีUndocumented
Active period: 1928