"Amateur Nite - Cowboy Bill's Ramblers, The Saturday Evening Post cover, Jan" Lot no. 3418
By Monte Crews (1888-1946)
1936
36.50" x 28.25"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Left: Monte / Crews
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Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 11th, 1936
A note from Jordan Berman, the Owner & Founder of The Illustrated Gallery
"For this January 11th, 1936 Post Cover, Monte Crews put together a very interesting painting about a true amateur group of musicians and called it The Amateur Hour. Now what is interesting is one of the most popular shows on radio, pre television days, was The Amateur Hour in the late 1930s and 1940s, and it was headed by major Bowes. Major Bowes retired and turned the reins over to Ted Mack and Ted Mack became the host for the television show, The Amateur Hour, which was very popular in the late 40s and 50s. What is interesting about their connection, and to this painting, is that both of these gentlemen owned this painting at one time. Major Bowes bought it in the 30s, and sold it to Ted Mack sometime in the 50s. We were fortunate enough to buy it a few years ago."
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Monte Crews (1888-1946) was born in Fayette, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri at Columbia before studying at the Art Institute of Chicago and then the Art Students League in New York.
He eventually moved back to Missouri, where he continued to create cover illustrations for magazines and and teach at the Kansas City Art Institute; some of his students there went on to become Saturday Evening Post cover illustrators themselves, including Emery Clarke and John Falter. Crews later moved to New Rochelle, New York, an active artists’ colony. While on the east coast, he taught at the Phoenix Art Institute, the Pratt Institute, and the Moore Institute.