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In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly. The contract lasted nearly 30 years.From the 1920’s onward, Dulac’s income came primarily from his American Weekly work. . Dulac painted 106 watercolors from 19241951 for thirteen different series for The American Weekly, until his final ‘Tales from the Arabian Nights’ in 1951.The three series featured here are “Famous Vamps of History” from 1929, “Follies That Destroyed Famous Queens” from 1934 and “Fighting Women” from 1938. The Vamps series was the first to