"Let's Go Fishing, Post Cover" Lot no. 4874
By Amos Sewell (American- 1901-1983)
1962
17.75" x 20.25", Framed 24" x 26.5"
Mixed Media on board
Signed Lower Left
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The Saturday Evening Post, August 25-September 1, 1962, cover illustration.
"Forty minutes to go, broods Amos Sewell's thwarted young angler, and then Dad will waste still more time washing up and eating and dawdling over his coffee. From the look of this somnolent scene it is clear that no fish will be disturbed until at least seven o'clock, and then, as any youngster knows, the fish will be settling for a siesta. Why, wonders the young sprat, can't fathers coordinate their sleeping habits with those of fish?" (The Saturday Evening Post, August 25, 1962, p. 3)
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Amos Sewell had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post.
Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal.
In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi and Harvey Dunn. At the same time, he began to draw black and white dry-brush illustrations for the Pulp magazines.
He illustrated his first major manuscript for The Country Gentleman in 1937; next came The Saturday Evening Post, for which he subsequently also painted many covers. This led to commissions from other national magazines. Sewell also illustrated for many major advertisers, and his work won awards from the Art Directors Clubs of New York and Cleveland, were exhibited at the Society of Illustrators, and included in traveling exhibits both here and abroad.