Joseph Francis Kernan

Elderly Couple, Capper's Magazine Cover

1935

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29" x 20" Signature: Initialed Lower Left American Artist (20th Century)

Date: 1936 Dimensions: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: 25.00" x 20.00" Home Arts Needlecraft Magazine Cover, August 1936.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 20.75" x 40.00", Framed 30.75" x 50.00" During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby. Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Date: 1924 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 26.60" x 21.50" Signature: Signed and Dated The Country Gentleman, October 11, 1924, cover illustra...

Date: 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center Contact for exact dimensions. High Score, By Frank Bennett, This Week Magazine, September 1...

Echoes of the Present is an oil on canvas painting, 23.75 x 17.75 inches, signed and dated 'KOSTABI 2018' lower left. Framed in a contemporary black frame.

Interior Passion is an oil on canvas painting, 20 x 19.75 inches, signed and dated 'KOSTABI 2018' in the image, lower left. Framed in a contemporary black frame.

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