"Window Dressing" Lot no. 3522
By Theodore Haupt (1902 - 1990)
1928
9.00" x 13.00;" Framed 21.00" x 25.50"
Goauche on Illustration Board
Signed Lower Right
SOLD
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Cover for The New Yorker Magazine; January 28, 1928
A rare and whimsically delightful surviving cover painting from the golden age of illustration by Theodore Haupt, which was created for and appeared as the cover of The New Yorker Magazine; January 28, 1928. This painting captures the fun and folly of New York City in a severe art deco zig-zag aesthetic. During the busy wintertime wonderland shopping crush, a window dresser is shown feverishly attiring a nude store mannequin as snow covered throngs watch in delight. Haupt illustrated forty four covers for The New Yorker between 1927 and 1933.
The New Yorker, published by Conde-Nast, premiered on February 21, 1925. For over 85 years, it has offered a signature mix of culture and art, business and politics, fashion, design, and science and technology. The New Yorker's exceptional cover art has been just as remarkable as its content, featuring a broad spectrum of artists.
Haupt's inventive art deco style was very popular during this time, original The New Yorker cover paintings from this the golden age of illustration are exceedingly scarce and this is a defining example.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Theodore Haupt was born Oct 11, 1902 in St. Paul, MN he died about 1990. He was a grandson of General Herman Haupt a prominent railroad engineer in the Civil War. He grew up at 2102 Carter Ave in St. Paul’s St. Anthony Park, later living on Ramsey Hill off Summit Avenue.
He lived in New York state in the 1940’s and was living in San Miguel Allende, Mexico in the 1970’s. Theodore’s father, Rev. C. E. Haupt an Episcopal Minister was archdeacon of Minnesota and an instructor at Breck School. Theodore Haupt in the words of artist Clem Haupers, was a “slick” portrait painter.
Haupt studied at the Minneapolis School of Art* in 1922, instructed by Anthony Angerola. In 1923, Theodore Haupt won a Guggenheim Scholarship* to the Academy Julian* in Paris, where he remained two years, also studying in Vienna and Gratz.
Artists Clara Mairs and Clem Haupers studied in Paris with him. They remained life-long friends. Haupt started doing covers for the New Yorker magazine while still in St. Paul. In 1927 he moved to NYC working for New Yorker, Charm and Vanity Fair magazines. He produced 45 covers for New Yorker from 1927 to 1933. His work is decidedly modernist, when subjective, it is abstracted and/or surreal.