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Thornton Utz
Resume Safe Speed, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959

1959

About the Item

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959. The Post described, “It is so refreshing to get away from it all, to glide out through the far-horizoned open spaces on the super fastways. If there is a slight hitch in the gliding, how soul-calming is to savor at leisure the beauty of the land. Now the man with a camera—especially a motion-picture camera— can trace out the long course of ribboning highway where countless other travelers bask in the same motionless peace. Now the man with a putter can putter to his heart’s desire. And all along the relaxed miles strangers can strike up happy friendships, as people do on shipboard. Artist Thornton Utz agrees that the man immobilized beside the resume-speed sign is un-co-operative and is muttering, “X!*#X!!” If the approaching storm lets go before he puts his top up, he can say that again.” (The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959, p. 3) J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1998, p. 256, illustrated.
  • Creator:
    Thornton Utz (1914 - 1999, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1959
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 39.25 in (99.7 cm)Width: 29.75 in (75.57 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fort Washington, PA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 39351stDibs: LU38436067482

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