Earl Mayan ART FOR SALE

1916 Brooklyn, New York - 2009 Long Island, New York. Known for: Illustration, domestic genre.

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Earl Mayan was an American illustrator whose early career spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post-WW II years alongside Norman Rockwell at The Saturday Evening Post. Earl Mayan was born in Brooklyn in 1916. He graduated from Pratt Institute in 1936, his roommate and classmate was another famous illustrator, Edd Cartier. One of their instructors at Pratt, who was also an editor for the publisher "Street and Smith" encouraged both graduates to enter the field of pulp illustration. Mayan illustrated The Shadow until he joined the army (1941-1945). After the war, he worked for Grosset and Dunlop, Bantam Books, Random House and Reader's Digest condensed books, and from 1954-1961 he illustrated 10 Saturday Evening Post covers and many... Read full biography

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Plowed Over Driveway, Saturday Evening Post Cover

Type:Illustration

Year:1954

Size:21.00" x 21.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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Saturday Evening Post cover painting, December 18, 1954 Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts Club, New York, December 16, 2013- January 5, 2014

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