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18 Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. specimen stock certificate, with portrait of Mary Kay engraved by Ken Guy
in 1981. This portrait and the Mrs. Roland Sahlm portrait are among Ken Guy’s leading engravings.
19 Fleet Financial Group Inc. special vignette, 1982.
achieving a photographic effect. Picture
engraving, especially portraits, involve
translating a continuous form medium, in
this case a photograph, into a dot-and-line
medium in a way that will trick the eye
into perceiving the image as photographic.
That certainly happens with Guy’s engraving of Mary Kay.
Fleet Financial Group Inc. in 1982 provided Guy with artwork of a sailor at
the helm that became one of his favorite
vignettes (Figure 19). Filled with sailing
ships, great clouds, choppy water and a
weathered captain, the vignette with its rope
border achieves a strong nautical effect.
It is a good example of fine artwork (an
appealing subject) combining with excellent
engraving to make a memorable vignette.
An outstanding vignette requires both.
Guy retired in 1985 when American
Bank Note was leaving its