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George HughesMessy Room, Neat Boys: Post Cover1955
1955
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Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1955.
The Post described, “Mother is making rapid progress at teaching the boys to maintain a tidy room; if George Hughes had painted this the day school opened, the detail would have given him a lame arm. Now, here is portrayed an intelligent female who in her delicate way molds the character of men; so when her boys are seniors in college, they will be 27 per cent tidier than now. Then they will get married and never leave so much as a pipe cleaner lying about—for six weeks. After that they will revert to human beings, and what they don’t chuck around will be what they haven’t got. A woman’s picking-up-stuff is never done. Why doesn't this mother shock the boys into tidy conduct by simply leaving their shambles untouched? Because they like it this way. She’d better go buy herself a new hat.”
(The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1955, p. 3)
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1998, p. 245, illustrated.
- Creator:George Hughes (1907 - 1990, American)
- Creation Year:1955
- Dimensions:Height: 29.25 in (74.3 cm)Width: 22.25 in (56.52 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Fort Washington, PA
- Reference Number:Seller: 40831stDibs: LU38436301702
George Hughes
A native New Yorker, George Hughes studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. Some of his early work included fashion drawing, and there was a stint as a special designer in the automobile field in Detroit. For many years, Hughes was one of the most prolific painters of Saturday Evening Post covers; in addition, he painted many editorial illustrations for the Post and other publications, including McCall’s, Woman’s Day, American Magazine, Reader’s Digest, and Cosmopolitan magazines. Hughes was one of the originators and masters of the “sitcom” magazine cover, and through his efforts, readers would spend minutes rather than seconds looking at the covers. Also a painter, he exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Detroit Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. In recent years he restricted his work to portraiture.
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