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John Ford Clymer
Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover

1952

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Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952. Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea. John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art Museum in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for his painting "Late Arrivals-Green River Rendezvous". The Post described, “Having got themselves healthily rested by sitting indoors all winter, these folks will now ascend the Olympic Mountains on a picnic and get so tired out that they won't fully recover until about time to go away on their summer vacation and get exhausted all over again. Confession: ignore that remark — it is sour grapes because we aren't on the picnic too. Well, editors can't be choosers, and anyway it does almost seem as if we could touch that purple lupine, and breathe that fir-scented air, and feel the calming imminence of the great hills. To work this sorcery, John Clymer must have whittled his brush handle out of a magic wand. Afterthought: this is the only paragraph ever written about a picnic which does not mention ants.” (The Saturday Evening Post, May 31, 1952, p. 3) Exhibitions: Norman Rockwell Museum Exhibition at South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, South Dakota, May 5, 2015 - September 13, 2015
  • Creator:
    John Ford Clymer (1907 - 1989, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1952
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 34 in (86.36 cm)Width: 27 in (68.58 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fort Washington, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 1701stDibs: LU38431862193

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