"“He’s a dear, but a type you perhaps haven’t met before”" Lot no. 226
By Tom Lovell (1909-1997)
1942 (Estimated)
38.50" x 28.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
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Magazine story illustration for “A Song for Miss Julie” by Michael Foster for Hearst’s International Combined with Cosmopolitan, published March 1944, page 39.
The tale is described as: “A delicious story about a couple of Broadway playwrights who invade the Old South looking for scandal and come up drenched in magnolia.”
The full caption reads: “I think someone should talk to you about men of Stephen’s type, my dear,’ said Mrs. Kimbro. ‘He’s a dear, but a type you perhaps haven’t met before.’ Miss Julie gasped. ‘But Mrs. Kimbro!’”
A Native American finding a Raggedy Ann doll on a lonely western road. A man teaching his blond, gingham-dressed, settler wife how to shoot a rifle. A trio of Indians warming their hands over the chimney of a snow-buried cabin in an otherwise empty landscape. These are just three of the stories told through the art of Tom Lovell, considered by his peers one of the deans of Western art. But that's not all. He was equally famous for his exciting and thought-provoking illustrations for such magazines as Life, The Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic as well as his stirring images of sweeping Civil War battles which were considered so definitive that they were telecast as part of the famous Public Television documentary on the conflict and published in the accompanying best-selling book.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Had an extreme attention for detail and rarely completed more then a dozen major oil paintings a year. He was a Freelance illustrator for many well-known magazines including Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and become known as a pulp illustrator. His work depicting life in the old west earned him his reputation of Dean of Western Art and allowed him to win just about every major Western Art prize that exist. He was voted into the Society of Illustrators in 1974 and was chosen to receive two Gold Metals.