Wesley Morse provided program and promotional illustrations for Owney Madden’s Cotton Club throughout the 1930′s at its 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue location in Harlem. The club closed in 1936 and relocated downtown at Broadway and 48th Street, Morse came along, continuing to illustrate the club’s programs. The Cotton Club closed its doors for good in 1940.
Famed nightclub impresario Lou Walters opened The Latin Quarter in 1942 in its place, and Morse become that club’s premier image maker throughout the 40′s and 50′s.