The Snickersnee Press

Our book feature a 22-inch two-page spread of six George Grosz drawings about the United States and Chicago rendered between 1915 and 1923.

Additionally, the reader will find picturers of Ben Hecht, Grosz and Karl Dohmann, aka Diamonides, together in Berlin 1919 and an elaborate film still title for which Grosz did the artwork.

The Snickersnee Press book includes two Hecht pieces about George Grosz not reprinted since their original publication in the early 1920s: Hoch Das Dadaismus for a Milwaukee publication and Enchanted Exiles, the latter about George Grosz's fascination with America.

In Hecht's story, Enchanted Exiles we learn of Grosz's thrill to American skyscrapers, especially Chicago's new Wrigley Building. Hecht tells the story in an interview with Georg Grosz's American agent, Herman Sachs, who then lived in Chicago and became part of Hollywood's creative scene.

The story is illustrated by a picture of the Wrigley building and by an image of the Sach's mural Spirit of Transportation for Bullocks Wilshire department store in Los Angeles. One of George Grosz's obscure works, Dresden Puff, illustrates "Hoch das Dadaismus," Hecht's tribute to Dada and Grosz.