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Resume Safe Speed, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959
By Thornton Utz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959.
The Post described, “It is so refreshing to get away from...
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1950s Thornton Utz Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Water Fight, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Thornton Utz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 30, 1951
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1950s Thornton Utz Art
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“Girl with Scarf”
By Thornton Utz
Located in Southampton, NY
Original mixed media composed of graphite, watercolor, gouache and acrylic paint on hardboard by the well known American artist, Thornton Utz. Signed lower left and dated 1992. Con...
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1990s Contemporary Thornton Utz Art
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Noir Crime Drama Shooting - Saturday Evening Post Illustration
By Thornton Utz
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Saturday Evening Post Illustrator Thornton Utz captures the peak moment of action in this Noir Crime Drama, Shooting illustration on an interior page in the famed magazine in 1958 —...
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1950s American Realist Thornton Utz Art
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Acrylic, Board
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Oil Painting Workers on a Southern Plantation Thornton Utz Illustration Art
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Located in Surfside, FL
Thornton Utz (American, 1914-1999). An oil on panel board of a plantation workers picking in a wooded landscape.
Signed lower right. Artist bio on verso. Site size is 23-1/2 in x 17-1/2 in.
Thornton Robyn Utz, a Southerner, was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1914 where his father worked as a craftsman in horse-drawn carriage trimming until he moved over to automobile upholstery. From a very young age, Thornton Utz began drawing and illustrating without any professional training. He made his own comic strips to pass out to schoolmates. By high school, Utz had received encouragement from his teachers to pursue a career in the arts. His passion for art and illustration would build into a defining style that heavily influenced advertising and illustrating throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Utz’s work was so popular he received steady work before even having graduated from Memphis Technical. Utz was quick to make friends throughout his life. At Memphis Technical, he met a young man by the name of Euclid Shook, who became his artistic partner for several years. The two worked semi-professionally on advertisements and boards for fairs and carnivals across the state. They graduated from high school in 1933 and together enrolled in The Academy of Art in Chicago.
While studying art in Chicago, Utz shopped his skills around various advertising firms and print shops looking for work. His time in Chicago helped form his defining illustrative style. Looking back, Utz believed the time was wasted, saying, “I don’t think I learned much that year- except that I would never learn art in art school.” Much to the artist’s own chagrin, his style developed most in Chicago because of his schooling and the influence of his relationships. The most important artistic relationships he developed were those of Coby Whitmore and Ben Stahl. They all later became prominent members of The Chicago Gang of illustrators, friends who worked together to build a synonymous style for illustration. In Chicago, Utz met his wife, Louise Prohaska, through Ben Stahl. The two fell in love with one another over the course of a long period, eventually marrying on March 6th, 1940.
Utz received his first major illustration contracts designing color page art for Bell Airacobra, leading to his discovery by The Saturday Evening Post for an illustration and agent signing in 1944. Utz quickly settled his family just outside of New York City in Westport, Connecticut where he could work for large publications and advertising firms from home while helping to raise two daughters and a son. Utz was fascinated by the WPA Americana style and often chose to depict suburban families living their everyday lives. Some of his favorite artistic choices involved objects of technology and movement such as buses, trains, and cars. The idea of mass transportation and its commentary on the speed of the times fascinated the southern boy whose father had to shift from working on horse carriages to automobiles.
By the 1950s, Thornton Utz was using the interactions in his life to reach out to the rest of the country through art. His illustrations of American families going to work, cooking, cleaning, mowing the yard, and completing other chores made for a strong connection to the sensibilities of the time. His portrayals of the successes and humors of American stereotypes resonated with the country’s citizens in the post-war boom economy. His work made him one of the most popular illustrators in post-war America, fetching commissions for forty-five Saturday Evening Post covers during the decade. (N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Ellen Pyle, J.C. Leyendecker and of course Norman Rockwell all produced covers for the SEP)
Thornton Robyn Utz was an American illustrator, cartographer and cartoonist. Today he is best remembered for his graphic work in The Saturday Evening Post during the 1940s and 1950s. Most of his cartoons featured romanticized scenes of suburban life in the United States, often involving transportation. His work is interesting for comics fans and historians too, because his gags are often told in three narrative sequences.
Utz was part of The Chicago Gang, a group of illustrators who worked in a minimalist style. In 1939 he created a biographical text comic about the life of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, of 'Peer Gynt...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Thornton Utz Art
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Oil, Board
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