Stevan Dohanos was born in the steel mill town of Lorain, Ohio, on May 18, 1907. Dohanos studied at the Cleveland School of the Arts. He is best known for the covers, more than 100, he painted for The Saturday Evening Post magazine during the 1940s and 1950s. His work appeared frequently on its covers. Most of his illustrations depicted common scenes of everyday post-war American life, such as a mobile home complete with pink flamingo, a gas station attendant inflating a child's toy or a souped-up motorcycle in the owner's driveway. His works are often compared to those of Norman Rockwell. Dohanos was influenced by The Eight namely Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Shinn, Prendergast, Davies, Lawson and Luks. During the 1960s, his designs were used on 25 postage stamps. From 1961–63, he served as a President of the Society of Illustrators and in 1971 was elected to the Society's Hall of Fame. He was a founder of the Famous Artists School in Westport. Dohanos died on July 2, 1994, in Westport, Connecticut.
Stevan Dohanos Homage To Abraham Lincoln
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in San Francisco, CA
Stevan Dohanos: 1907-1994. Very important American painter and illustrator. He has auction record over $200,000 just 2 months ago. He has sold for much more through galleries. This h...
Watercolor, Gouache
Penny Candy, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist The Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 23, 1944 A proponent of simplicity as a virtue, Stevan Dohan...
Oil, Tempera
Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’ Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Tying Flies, Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1950 (cover illustration). Remembered for his 125 covers of the Saturday Evening Post between 1942 and 1958, Dohanos also designed over forty sta...
Oil
Family Dinner
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right "Stevan Dohanos" Framed dimensions are 27.00" x 31.00." Interior scene with a family cooking. Original advertisement for American Optical published in ...
Canvas, Gouache
$140,000
Frozen Laundry, Original Cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The present work was illustrated on the cover of the March 8, 1952 edition of the Saturday Evening Post. The Post writes, "When Stevan Dohanos was a little boy he was sometimes gran...
Oil, Masonite
Walking the Tightrope, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left This work was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1949 The Post described the cover as follows: "Having found the setting he wanted for his circus-theme cover painting - on the Brotherton farm near Westport, Connecticut- Stevan Dohanos began rigging up a beam for the farm boy...
Canvas, Oil
The No-Cal
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left Medical Times, vol. 89, no. 5, May 1961, pp. 7a, 192a, cover illustration. According to the Medical Times, where the present work was featured on the c...
Canvas, Casein
Puppies for Sale, Original magazine cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, September 30, 1950 Puppies for Sale, the cover illustration for the September 30, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post, is a remarkable examp...
Canvas, Oil
"“Abbé Doret’s Secret” Original Magazine Story Illustration
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Abbé Doret’s Secret” by Manuel Komroff for Cosmopolitan, published February 1942. The full caption reads: “As the gardener passed he lifted his cap twice ‘Do...
Gouache, Board
Home Improvement, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, December 5, 1953
Tempera
A Letter From The West
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Story Illustration
Oil, Board
After Church, Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower left by Artist The Saturday Evening Post cover, April 16, 1949
Oil
The Stamp Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas with an Element of Collage Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 27th, 1954. The Post described, “...
Canvas, Oil
Dancing Class, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1952
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 10, 1952. The Post describe...
Canvas, Oil
Grocery Line, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1948
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1948 The Post described, “Artist Stevan Dohanos felt like a baseball coach who had everything he needed excep...
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
The Splendid Outcast
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Paperboard The present work was published as the main illustration for a short story by Beryl Markham published in The Saturday Even...
Paper, Gouache, Board
A Passenger Train
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 33.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right Exhibitions: Exhibited at International Galleries Contemporary American Illustration, May 1...
Oil, Board
Friday Night or The Band, Maxwell Coffee Ad
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Advertisement for Maxwell House Coffee, "The Quartet, The Dog...
Canvas, Oil
Protect Our Children
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left depicts the Old Palace Theater in Norwalk, Connecticut.
Canvas, Oil
The Collector, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 11, 1951. The Post described, “Make the acquaintance of Kit Dunham, a Westport, Connecticut, lepidopterist. This is...
Acrylic, Board
"Valley of Ashes, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right "Valley of Ashes" by William James Stevens Jr., and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos for the Saturday Evening Post, May 24, 1947.
Canvas, Oil
The Beating - Watercolor and Gouache on Paper, Post-Modern, 1960s
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Miami, FL
Watercolor and gouache on paper laid on board Magazine Illustration defined by bold graphic composition and limited color palate yielding a powerful image that jumps off the page. u...
Gouache, Watercolor
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
Saturday Evening Post Cover, January 31, 1953
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953 Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimensions: 42.00" x 32.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, January 31, 1953. The Post d...
Masonite, Oil
Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950 Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimensions: 25.75" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 1st, 1950. The Post des...
Masonite, Oil
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West )
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Casein
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Casein
$850
H 24 in W 16 in D 0.25 in
Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil w Tiffany Blue Background
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted Tiffany Blue background, black abstract portrait. Here you ...
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Indian Chief, 30's - gouache, 29x23 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Gouache on paper by the native american artist Mopope. Dimensions framed: 35x28 cm. Stephen Mopope was born on 27 August 1898 near the Redstone Baptist Mission on the Kiowa Reservation in Indian Territory. Qued Koi was his Kiowa name, which translates as "Painted Robe," and is sometimes spelled, "Wood Coy." His maternal grandfather was Appiatan, a famed Kiowa warrior, and his great-uncles were Silver Horn and Oheltoint (Ohettoint), both of whom were accomplished artists. Oheltoint was one of the Fort Marion ledger artists.[1] Mopope's paternal grandfather was a Spanish captive, adopted by Kiowa chief Many Bears. When Mopope was a young child, his relatives observed him drawing pictures in the sand, so the artists in his family taught him how to paint on hides in the traditional manner. His grandmother was also instrumental in his early education. In 1916, Mopope attended St. Patrick's Indian Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma, where he received further art instruction under Sister Olivia Taylor, a Choctaw nun. In a move that contradicted US federal policy at the time, Susan Peters, the Kiowa agency field matron, arranged for Mrs. Willie Baze Lane, an artist from Chickasha, Oklahoma, to teach painting classes for young Kiowas in Anadarko. Recognizing the talent of some of the young artists, Peters convinced Swedish-American artist, Oscar Jacobson...
Gouache
$3,950
H 20 in W 18 in D 2 in
"Georgia Moonshiner, c. 1935" by Athos Menaboni (1895-1990) American WPA Era Oil
Located in Yardley, PA
A fantastic WPA-era painting of a Georgia moonshiner by famed Italian-American artist Athos Menaboni (1895-1990). This work depicts an older man sporting a brown hat, brown jacket, ...
Masonite, Oil
Bucks County Bridge
Located in Greenville, DE
Outstanding work by Bucks County artist David Hahn. The winter scene is of Bucks County Bridge painted with heavy imposto.
Masonite, Oil
Clearing The Water Jump Oil on Board by Paul Brown
By Paul Desmond Brown 1
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 14"H x 18"W Oil on masonite board Provenance: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown Paul Desmond Brown (American, 1893-1958) was an artist, illustrator, and chronicler of sport...
Oil, Masonite
$285
H 12 in W 16 in D 0.13 in
An Elegant, Sumptuously Rendered Gilded Age Themed Interior Scene / Set Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
An Elegant, Stylish Gilded Age Themed Interior Scene / Set Design by notable stage set, costume and fashion designer, Andre Delfau (Fr./Am. 1914-2000). Artwork is gouache on paper, ...
Paper, Gouache
$18,500
H 13.5 in W 12.5 in
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Gouache
$218
H 5.91 in W 5.91 in D 1.19 in
Daffodil Pale Yellow Pocket Painting 201, original painting, still life
By Dani Humberstone
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Pale Yellow Daffodil 201 (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil painting...
Canvas, Oil
$685
H 20 in W 22 in D 0.13 in
A Striking, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Surrealist Architectural Scene / Set Design
By Andre Delfau
Located in Chicago, IL
A striking, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Surrealist architectural scene / set design by notable French stage, costume and fashion designer, Andre Delfau (1914-2000). Titled "Britannicus...
Paper, Gouache
Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artworl "Landscape" c. 1935 is an oil painting on hardboard by renown California artist Frank Joseph Girardin, 1856-1945. It is signed at the lower right corner. The hardboard size is 20 x 30 inches, framed size is 30.5 x 40.5 inches. Framed in a wooden beige frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856, Frank joseph Girardin began his art instruction in 1870 under Frank Noble and later Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. A semi-pro baseball player in Cincinnati, he was best known for his beautiful landscapes of both Indiana and California. An extremely active participant in the development of the Art Association of Richmond and original member of the local Sketch Club, he served on the Board of Directors of Art Association for several years. He was considered ranked next to the late John E. Bundy in talent and skill by the former Art Association Director, Mrs. Ella Bond Johnston. It was during his time in Indiana, that he received the most recognition for his work. In 1903, he won first prize for his painting, "Lingering Snow" at the Cincinnati Art Club Show. This would be one of numerous prizes and awards the he would receive during his time in Indiana, including the coveted Mary T...
Oil
19th Century Italian Floral Wallpaper Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Architectural Floral Wallpaper Fragment 19th Century Italian hand painted floral design wallpaper lined with linen, in gold leaf wood framed as is.
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper, Linen
Vintage French Gouache - Room of Whimsy
Located in Houston, TX
Poetically inspired piece of a small top floor room in Paris filled with paintings, birds and and a lively scarecrow made of clothing, 1950. Signed lower right, artist unknown. Orig...
Gouache, Paper
Sold
H 26.88 in W 25.38 in
The Pause That Refreshes Medical Times cover, March, 1964
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alongside J.C. Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos is remembered as one of the most beloved and prolific illustrators for the Saturday Evening Post. His gift for capturin...
Canvas, Oil, Board
Dog in front of Wooden House during Winter Sunset
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Miami, FL
Stevan Dohanos is famous for his covers on the Saturday Evening Post. We do not know where or if this painting was published. Most likely it was done on assignment for a major newsst...
Gouache, Board
Rained Out Birthday Party
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, May 22, 1954
Canvas, Oil
The Freesoil Printery
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in New Orleans, LA
Alongside J.C. Leyendecker and Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos is remembered as one of the most beloved and prolific illustrators for the Saturday Evening Post. His gift for capturin...
Masonite, Mixed Media, Oil
Chocolate Easter Bunnies, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left
Oil
Sold
H 46 in W 35.25 in
The Vacationers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 25, 1951
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1951 Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimensions: 46.00" x 35.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left: Stevan Dohanos; Dated on the reverse: August 25, 1951.
Masonite, Oil
Working on the Jalopy, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1950 Medium: Watercolor and Tempera on Masonite Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, May 20, 1950 Exhibited Denver...
Masonite, Tempera, Watercolor
Massachusetts Court House
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Snowy nighttime scene of courthouse.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 17 in W 20.5 in
Saturday Football Over the Radio, “Beer Belongs” Advertisement
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1942 Medium: Gouache and Casein on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Size: 17.00" x 20.50"
Board, Casein, Gouache
The Freesoil Printery
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1947 Medium: Oil and Mixed Media on Masonite Signature: Signed Upper Right Size: 20.00" x 24.00" "The Freesoil Printery," oil and mixed me...
Masonite, Mixed Media, Oil
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H 28.75 in W 26.25 in
Mutually Beneficial Friendship, Saturday Evening Post cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Saturday Evening Post cover, October 11, 1958 Daily life is the real subject of most great illustration art. It is the democratic art par excellence, and this work illustrates it...
Board, Gouache