Olympiad Discus Thrower
Type:Illustration
Size:13.00" x 10.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Joseph Kernan ART FOR SALE
1878 Brookline, Massachusetts - 1958. Known for: Illustrator, genre-outdoor, animal.
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline,... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in the art collection of the DeCoverly Kennels, outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, which specializes in that breed of dog. Kernan's paintings appeared on the covers of magazines including Collier's, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, The Country Gentleman,... Read full biography
Joseph Francis Kernan, a magazine illustrator for forty years during the golden age of that art and saddled with the nickname "the poor man's Norman Rockwell" -- was born in 1878 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He paid for his studies in Boston at the Eric Pape School of Art, where he later taught for two years, by playing professional baseball. True to his own sporting interests, Kernan favored outdoor scenes of sports, fishing, hunting and dogs. One of his paintings of an English Setter is in the art collection of the DeCoverly Kennels, outside Scranton, Pennsylvania, which specializes in that breed of dog. Kernan's paintings appeared on the covers of magazines including Collier's, Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, The Country Gentleman, Capper's Farmer, The Elks, Outdoor Life, and the Associated Sunday Magazines. His work was also commissioned for calendars and advertise... Read full biography
Joseph Kernan - Art for Sale (4 available)
Three Baseball Boys, Cover for Capper's Farmer Magazine
Type:Illustration
Year:1928
Size:24.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Capper's Farmer Magazine Cover, June 1928
Embarrassment, Scorn, Amusement
Type:Illustration
Size:24.00" x 21.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
The Fly Fisherman
Type:Painting
Size:24.50" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
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