During his tenure from 1951-1955 at the New York City-based ad agency Abbott Kimball Co., Inc. (1937 – present), Walter Ferro made four woodcuts in this series of monks in various scenes for Schieffelin & Co.’s La Grande Chartreuse advertisement, which ran from November 1953 to January 1954 in the following magazines: New Yorker, Gourmet, Cosmopolitan, Fortnight, Saturday Review, Promenade, Esquire, House & Garden, and House Beautiful.