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Artist: John Ford Clymer
"So it’s off to Grandma’s for Turkey Day—oh, boy!" Thanksgiving Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 26, 2955
Medium: Oil on board
Dimensions: 33.50" x 26.25"
Signed: Lower Left
Stated on pg 3 of the Post magazine 'So it's off to Gran...
Category
1950s American Realist John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Tired Hiker, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post...
Category
1850s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clearing the Snow, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, February 6, 1960
Caption: "The Cover: Artist John Clymer takes you to the summit of Washington state's Snoqualimie Pass, where they seem to have had a few snow flurries lately. Up there the moist westerly winds bump against sky-reaching peaks of the Cascade Range, with the result that the winds spill their contents before whistling dryly on down across the eastern slopes. Thus residents of places like Seattle living in a relatively balmy clime beside the Pacific's mild Japan current, can drive in an hour or two up to where skiing material is sometimes twenty feet thick if it's an inch. Indeed, when seasons overlap, a downlander might conceivably pick a rose and go skiing with it in his buttonhole. All of which, thanks to highway crews who blow off the blizzards, is a very felicitous geographic arrangement."
John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category
1950s Other Art Style John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Board, Oil
South for the Winter, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1957 showing ducks in autumn flying south for the winter
The Post described, "When Jack Frost whistles down the breezeways, right-minded birds take off toward the balmy Southland. Some human beings are depressed because they haven't wings to do likewise, yet, all told, it's probably nicer to be a man than, say, a mallard duck. This is a migratory flyway in the lakelands of Alberta, favored by birds of that feather which like to swipe their meals from grainfields and rest their weary bones on soft, or even hard, water. Down the Mississippi Valley this sky traffic will v-wint its way, and the smarter ducks that go clear to the Gulf Coast can take a gander at the New Orleans Mardi Gras...
Category
1950s American Realist John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Saturday Evening Post cover, August 29, 1959. - Americana
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Miami, FL
This classic Post cover combines the vastness of the American West landscape with the intimacy of iconic Americana: two kids swimming in a rura...
Category
1950s American Realist John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Putting Up Birdhouses, Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 9, 1951
'John Clymer, while migrating through Wyoming in a motorcar, was amazed at the variety of birds that go there summers to keep house....
Category
1950s American Realist John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Family Picnic, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover for The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, May 31, 1952.
Clymer's coverscape takes you to Massachusetts' tidelands where the frost is on the pumpkin and the red and gold areon the trees. Gloucester harbor and the inlets roundabout-- for three centuries this haven has been the homeport of renowned and valiant fisherman. They were the Captains Courageous of Rudyard Kipling, the hero’s of Longfellow's The Wreck of the Hesperus and of James B. Connolly's tales of the sea.
John Ford Clymer's success as an artist can be traced to his boyhood in the Kittitas Valley located in the central regions of Washington state. It was there that he developed an enthusiasm for the world around him and an abiding respect for historical accuracy. Over the years John Clymer received numerous awards and honors including the revered Prix de West in 1976, from the national Academy of Western Art. Other great achievements included both gold and silver metals for his oils and charcoal drawings from the Cowboy Artists of America, "Western Artist of the Year" from the National Wildlife Art Collectors Society, and both John and Doris were honored at the Ellensburg National Art Show and Auction for their contributions to western heritage. John's highest honor came in 1988 when he was awarded the prestigious Rungius Medal from the Wildlife of American West Art...
Category
1950s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Drying Nets - Mont Saint Pierre
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Framed Dimensions: 25" X 29 1/4"
Drying Nets - Mont Saint Pierre is an antique 1930s signed oil on canvas painting by the important American artist and illustrator John Clymer, signed lower right and titled on the back stretcher bar in the artist's hand. The work is a fine American impressionist painting with dazzling impasto work, particularly on the nets being hoisted and the frothing sea. Showing a rugged scene of two fishermen on the coast of the St Lawrence river in New Brunswick Canada, this appears to date to the 1930s when the artist resided in Connecticut. The painting is housed in a fabulous and original-to-the-painting American Arts & Crafts aesthetic Plein Air carved gold frame.
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John Clymer, renowned for his historic and artistic contribution in documenting the American Frontier, was born in Ellensburg, Washington in 1907. Clymer was fascinated by art at an early age, and began taking art correspondence courses in art during high school. At the age of sixteen, he sold two drawings to the Colt Firearms...
Category
1930s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ice Boating, Saturday Evening Post cover, November 28, 1959
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1959
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left: John Clymer
Category
1850s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Board
“Last Gun of the Confederacy, ” CSS Shenandoah, Illustration for Reader’s Digest
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Last Gun of the Confederacy” by Charles E. Hinkson published in Reader’s Digest, September 1964, pages 58-59. Original copy of magazine included.
The illustr...
Category
1960s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Board
When Couples Meet, Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Center Right: John Clymer
Ballantine Beer advertisement, 1953
Category
1950s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Children with Rowboat, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 21, 1953
Image of children carrying a rowboat
Date: 1953
Medium: Oil Paint
Dimensions: 33.00" x 26.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil
Keeping Appointments with Convoys, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1943
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Laid Down on Board
Signature: Signed "J. Clymer" Lower Left
This illustration was used in a 1943 advertisement for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Category
1940s John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Goodyear Tire Advertisement, Route 1, Bridgewater Conn.
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Size: 20.00" x 40.00"
This illustration "Route 1, Bridgewater Conn." by American artist John Ford Clymer (1907-1989) was used in magazine advertisements.
John Clymer was born in Ellensburg, Washington. His art education was acquired at the Vancouver School of Fine Art, the Ontario College of Art in Port Hope...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Winter in the Country
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: 20.00" x 40.00"
This was used in magazine advertisements
Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- Ja...
Category
Mid-20th Century John Ford Clymer Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
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