"Sunday Visitors, Saturday Evening Post Cover" Lot no. 3238
By George Hughes (1907-1990)
1954 (Estimated)
25.50” x 23.00”, Framed 33.00" x 31.00"
Oil on Board
Signed Lower Left
SOLD
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Cover Illustration, The Saturday Evening Post, February 6, 1954
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
A native New Yorker, George Hughes studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Some of his early work included fashion drawing, and there was a stint as a special designer in the automobile field in Detroit.
For many years, Hughes was one of the most prolific painters of Saturday Evening Post covers; in addition, he painted many editorial illustrations for the Post and other publications, including McCall’s, Woman’s Day, American Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and Cosmopolitan magazines.
Hughes was one of the originators and masters of the “sitcom” magazine cover, and through his efforts, readers would spend minutes rather than seconds looking at the covers.
Also a painter, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Detroit Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In recent years he restricted his work to portraiture.