Eugene Iverd Paintings

"Just Wait Til I Grow Up" is an original oil on canvas painting by Eugene Iverd, the named adopted by the artist and illustrator George Ericson when he began to do commercial work. Eugene Iverd had a great fondness for illustrating and painting children and capturing their innocence, frequently using his own children and the children of Erie, PA where he taught as the models for his work. This innocence can be seen in the many works he did for the covers of magazines like the Saturday Evening Post, The American Magazine, and others and in "Just Wait Til I Grow Up" which was used for the April 1932 cover of The American Magazine. Iverd was born in 1893 in Minnesota, the child of Swedish immigrants and received degrees from the St. Paul School of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. After serving in the military where he did illustrations for their own magazines he took a teaching position at Academy High School in Erie, Pennsylvania, a place that has become strongly associated with his work. He went full-time with his commercial work, designing calendars, magazine covers, and paintings for magazines...