"Tired Hiker, The Saturday Evening Post Cover" Lot no. 2585
By John Ford Clymer (American- 1907-1989)
1950
36.00" x 28.00", Framed 46.00" x 38.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower left
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Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, April 15, 1950 The Post described, “Father and the boys are ascending a middle-size mountain near Washington State’s Teanaway Canyon, and one member of the party is pleased that their goal is not Mount Stuart, which forms the majestic backdrop. The boys would make the summit a lot sooner without their chaperon, but he has to go along to see that they get there all right. The snow bridge was formed by a slide or by great drifts burying the mountain stream in midwinter and being sculptured into an arch by the spring sun and freshets. John Clymer, who is a veteran snowbridge crosser, says these spans are perfectly safe unless crossed just before Nature has planned to collapse them anyway. Under snow bridges, he testifies, runs ice water.”
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
John Clymer was born in Ellensburg, Washington. His art education was acquired at the Vancouver School of Fine Art, the Ontario College of Art in Port Hope, Canada, as well as at the Wilmington Society of Fine Arts in Delaware, and the Grand Central School of Art in New York. With this background, his loyalties had ever since been divided between the United States and Canada.
Clymer's first illustrations were made for Canadian publications, followed by American Pulps, which lead to editorial assignments for most of the American magazines, numerous advertising campaigns, and an extensive series of the paintings of historic episodes for the United States Marine Corps during World War II.
His paintings have been exhibited widely in both countries as well, with the North West Artists in Seattle, the Ontario Society of Artists, the Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto, Canada (where he was an Associate member), the National Academy in New York, the Salmagundi Club, the Society of Animal Artists, and the Hudson Valley Artists. Clymer was an exhibiting member of the Cowboy Artists and the National Academy of Western Art, winning numerous awards. His biography John Clymer, An Artist's Rendevous with the Frontier West was published by Northland Pree in 1976. He was elected to the society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1982.