"Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover" Lot no. 3306
By Stevan Dohanos (American- 1907-1994)
1950
25.75" x 20.00"
Oil on Masonite
Signed Lower Right
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Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 1st, 1950. The Post described, “These cows are relatives of ones that were drinking paste from a circus bill poster’s pail in Stevan Dohanos cover some years back. Near Westport, Connecticut, Bob Warner runs the Blue Ribbon Dairy Farm and Cow-Posing Academy. Cows decry posing; it does something to their dignity. Warner had a rough day inducing his more paintable beasts to walk past Dohanos for observation. With all his experience at shooing cows, he cannot aim a cow north without probably having her go either east or west. As for the picnic, the attitude of that white cow with the obvious horns is inauspicious. She seems to be musing, “When those women get well inside the barbed wire, I believe I will shoo them right back through it.”” (The Saturday Evening Post, July 1st, 1950, p. 3)
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Stevan Dohanos made his mark as a nationally famous cover artist for The Saturday Evening Post and chronicler of Americana, but he began at the bottom.
He studied nights at the Cleveland School of Art long enough to get a job as an apprentice letterer, and gradually developed a solid studio background. A hard worker, he simultaneously painted and printed woodcuts for national exhibitions.
In 1936, he painted an assignment for the Treasury Art Project in the Virgin Islands, and later, various mural commissions for federal buildings in Elkins, West Virginia; West Palm Beach, Florida; and Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands. His pictures are in the collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Avery Memorial of Hartford, and the New Britain Museum of American Art.
His illustrations have appeared in almost all of the major magazines; he painted over 100 covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Twice a victim of tuberculosis himself, Dohanos contributed Christmas seal designs to the National Tuberculosis Association, and made many posters and designs for national and local charitable purposes. He designed well over forty stamps for the U.S. Postal Service, and for several years he served on the Citizen Stamp Advisory Committee for the Postmaster General and as its Design Coordinator.
Dohanos was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Artists and Writers club, the Dutch Treat Club. He served as President of the Society of Illustrators from 1961-63, was inducted into its Hall of Fame in 1971, and served as Honorary President from 1982 until his death.