32.The Glad Hand Press (Robert M. Jones)

The Glad Hand Press was founded in 1953 by Robert M. Jones, an art director of RCA and Columbia Records, and a collector of wood engravings. Jones operated the press out of his home in Stamford, Connecticut. In the early sixties, DePol created a series of hilarious and absurd hand images for Jones as possible press devices. In 1981, DePol added to these, creating fifteen hands altogether. Some were reprinted (fittingly enough) in DePol’s festschrift, John DePol, a Celebration of his Work by Many Hands, and in a gentle card DePol designed for a Typophiles’ Keepsake for the Christmas Luncheon of 1993 as a tribute to Jones who died in February of that year.