Stevan Dohanos Paintings
American, 1907-1994
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.
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Artist: Stevan Dohanos
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Oil, Tempera
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
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
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Oil
No Passing, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1954
Medium: Gouache on Paperboard
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Size: 26 1/8 x 20 in.
Saturday Evening Post, October 9, 1954, cover illustration.
Exhibited:
Norman Rockwell Museum...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
The Beating - Police and Man
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...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, 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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board
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
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
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...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
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.
Category
20th Century Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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, “...
Category
1950s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
1960s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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...
Category
1940s American Realist Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Casein
"“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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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...
Category
1950s American Realist Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Casein
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 ...
Category
20th Century Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Gouache
"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.
Category
20th Century Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
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
Category
Mid-20th Century Stevan Dohanos Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on Board
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Signature: Signed Lower Left
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The Vacationers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 25, 1951
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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.
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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
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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.
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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"
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1940s Stevan Dohanos Paintings
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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...
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1940s American Modern Stevan Dohanos Paintings
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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...
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H 28.75 in W 26.25 in
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