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Artist: Amos Sewell
Morning Coffee Break, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 27.00" x 23.75;" Framed 34.50" x 37.50"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 12, 1959.
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Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hospital Visit
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, April 29, 1961
Amos Sewell was born in San Francisco and moved to New York where he attended the Arts Students League. One of his teachers was Harvey Dunn whom he emulated and who inspired him to become an illustrator. He did many covers for Country Gentleman and The Saturday Evening Post and is best known for painting everyday people doing everyday things.
One of his best-loved covers is “Visiting Hours,” where a father and son come to visit Mom in the hospital. Since the misses appears to be recovering nicely, their attention drifts to the baseball game on television. Notice the rabbit ears, the black and white television...
Category
1960s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$199,000
Tricking Trick-or-Treaters, Halloween Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original Halloween cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Parent- Teacher Conference, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 24.00", Framed 32.00" x 20.00"
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 12, 1959.
T...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Audience, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 28, 1956.
The Post described, “The cows don't realize it is rude t...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backyard Campers, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 5, 1953.
The Pos...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The 11 Gauge Shotgun - Saturday Evening Post illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
Saturday Evening Post interior illustration
Signed lower right
Category
1950s American Realist Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Hatchet - Movie Moment of High Drama
By Amos Sewell
Located in Miami, FL
High drama and fear is exressed on the faces of 5 kids as they anticipate the outcome a scary event.
Signed lower left
From the Estate of Charles Martignette.
Most likey for the Sa...
Category
1950s American Realist Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil
$22,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Tricking Trick-or-Treaters, Halloween Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original Halloween cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November, 3, 1951. A ...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man Leading Horse
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 23.50" x 35.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration, older man leading horse, concerned kids. "Don't sell him, Uncle Pete' Ba...
Category
1940s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Hunters
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Born in San Francisco, Amos Sewell was a ranking California tennis player in his 20s wh...
Category
1940s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$5,000
“Here’s your rifle. Take it.” Story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Confession” by Margret G. Trotter for The Saturday Evening Post, published March 20, 1948, page 26.
The full caption reads: “He was saying hoarsely, ‘Here’s...
Category
1940s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
YMCA Camping Trip
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 23.00" x 19.50;" Framed 32.00" x 28.00"
Category
20th Century Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Boy at Carnival
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Featured in the Saturday Evening Post.
Category
20th Century Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Well Meaning Kidnapper
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "The Well-Meaning Kidnapper" by Logan Carrol, published in The Saturday Evening Post, February 3, 1951, page 24.
The full caption reads: "'Don't you know kidn...
Category
1950s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Remembered Anger, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story featured in The Saturday Evening Post, 1945 “Remembered Anger” by Martha Albrand
Story illustration: Man in showgirl's dres...
Category
1940s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine Story Illustration
Signed lower left
Amos Sewell had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post.
Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal.
In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Amos Sewell Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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