"Blessing the Plowshare"   Lot no. 3098

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By Henry James Soulen (American- 1888-1965)

1968 (Estimated)
34.00" x 27.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed in image, Lower Right
SOLD

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A gorgeous canvas by the famed Saturday Evening Post illustrator and specialist of Americana and religious images. He won the Peabody Award for his cover art. This work showcases his signature palette of light-saturated colors and raised paint textured details like the stained glass windows. In Rockwell states in his letter: "For years I admired his work as a cover artist and illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal . . . His sense of color was extraordinarily brilliant, but expressive."



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ABOUT THE ARTIST

            The work of Henry James Soulen is richly colored and strongly patterned. Each of his pictures is treated in a manner appropriate to the lack of pictorial depth of mural painting, and equally, to a magazine cover. He was given a Peabody Award for his magazine cover designs.

            Soulen was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and later studied with Howard Pyle. For many years, his work appeared regularly in most of the quality magazines, and usually in color - even when the use of color was restricted - because of the brilliance of his pallet.

            During World War II, he gave free art lessons at the Valley Forge Military Hospital, a rehabilitation center for veterans.