"The Stamp Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover"   Lot no. 3549

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By Stevan Dohanos (American- 1907-1994)

1954
30.50" x 25.00"
Oil on Canvas with an Element of Collage
Signed Lower Left

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Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27th, 1954. 

 

The Post described, “Grandpa, who began amassing stamps back around 50 B.T. (Before Television), now is inoculating Sonnyboy with this timeless fascination. If the rest of the folks are spending the restful winter evening worrying about murder, professional fisticuffs or other tension on the air waves, let ‘em. Sonnyboy, a thoughtful lad, soon will catch on that the way to get somewhere fast is to outwit grandpa with some cagey trades. Grandpa, going along with this outrage, will be secretly tickled, for how do you suppose the old cutie, through the years, got his board? Incidentally, the only things artist Dohanos collects are autographed brushes which have been used by fellow canvas addicts to make paintings. Other people collect the paintings.” 

 

(The Saturday Evening Post, February 27th, 1954, 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.