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Richard SargentShade Tree1958
1958
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Medium: Gouache, Tempera and Pencil on Paperboard
Signature: Signed 'Dick Sargent' (Lower Left)
Sight Size 23.00" x 21.88", Framed 29.00" x 28.00"
Cover of the April 12th, 1958 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
A job at a local printmaking workshop in his hometown of Moline, Illinois, set the young Richard “Dick” Sargent on a formative path to becoming one of America’s most beloved illustrators. After high school, he went on to study at the art school in Moline, and he later trained at the Corcoran School of Art and the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C. Sargent specialized in images that capture the humorous side of American daily life. The idiosyncrasies and imperfections of Sargent’s own family dynamics--including the antics of his three sons--provided inspiration for some of the nearly 50 covers he created for The Saturday Evening Post, as well as illustrations for Fortune and Woman’s Day magazines. An acknowledged “master of the pregnant situation,” he delighted in leaving readers speculating on the aftermath of a particular scene, as in this piece, published on the cover of the April 12th, 1958 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
The Post described, “Let’s find fault with Mr. Siesta for half a minute. If he is celebrating Arbor Day, the object is to plant a tree, not kill it. If that tree, which needs a drink more than he does, dehydrates long enough in what Artist Dick Sargent says is Southern-state sunshine, it may cast off its leaves after being planted, look like a hat rack, and grow about as fast as one. Is Mr. S. waiting for his wife to dig the hole? In any event, it's obvious that whatever the man is good at, it is not horticulture. Which could account for his now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t lawn; no doubt he sowed seeds on the blank spots without raking them in and, when he turned his back, the birds gratefully ate them one and all. But enough of this petty censuring. After all, he’s happy, so what are we worrying about?”
(The Saturday Evening Post, April 12, 1958, p. 3)
Without Frame: 23" x 21.88
With Frame: 29" x 28"
Richard Sargent
Richard 'Dick' Sargent, one of The Saturday Evening Post’s most prolific illustrators, was a Midwesterner born in Moline, Illinois, on March 26, 1911. His early career in art began just after his graduation from Moline High School when he went to work for a local printing and engraving plant. While there, Sargent attended night classes at the Moline Illinois Art School, the foundation for his future career as an artist. Sargent then studied at the Corcoran School of Art, and in 1951, he completed his first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, “Truth About Santa,” for the December 15 Christmas issue. While Sargent’s popularity grew through the exposure he received with the Post, he also did illustration work for magazines such as Fortune, Woman’s Day, Photoplay, and American Magazine among others. Americans adored Sargent and his art for his ability to show relatable, pregnant scenes with open-ended conclusions that commented on the situational comedy of life. In the late 1960s he retired to the Andalusia region of Spain and died there in 1978.
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