Motor Magazine Cover
Type:Painting
Year:1931
Size:36.00" x 27.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Cover illustration for Motor magazine, published October 1931
Robert Bernard Robinson ART FOR SALE
1886 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - 1952 Douglaston, Long Island, New York. Known for: Magazine illustration.
"MOTOR The Cover Art Of Robert Robinson Exhibit" . Posted by Wizzard Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 29-January 31, 2009. Robert Robinson, American illustrator and originator of the Saturday... Read full biography
"MOTOR The Cover Art Of Robert Robinson Exhibit" . Posted by Wizzard Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 29-January 31, 2009. Robert Robinson, American illustrator and originator of the Saturday Evening Post's "Slice of Life" style of cover art (later popularized by Norman Rockwell), shared his... Read full biography
"MOTOR The Cover Art Of Robert Robinson Exhibit" . Posted by Wizzard Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 29-January 31, 2009. Robert Robinson, American illustrator and originator of the Saturday Evening Post's "Slice of Life" style of cover art (later popularized by Norman Rockwell), shared his talents with the Hearst Corporation and their MOTOR MAGAZINE monthly publication from 1926 to 1952. Targeted at the service station and garage trade, Mr. Robinson's covers featured all types of... Read full biography
"MOTOR The Cover Art Of Robert Robinson Exhibit" . Posted by Wizzard Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 29-January 31, 2009. Robert Robinson, American illustrator and originator of the Saturday Evening Post's "Slice of Life" style of cover art (later popularized by Norman Rockwell), shared his talents with the Hearst Corporation and their MOTOR MAGAZINE monthly publication from 1926 to 1952. Targeted at the service station and garage trade, Mr. Robinson's covers featured all types of motoring maladies experienced by everyone from dowdy matrons to pouty pin-ups, bawdy mechanics to rowdy motorcyclists, and cute kids emulating their parents' problems. Escaping the mechanical malaise was also a reoccurring theme in the artist's work. With... Read full biography
"MOTOR The Cover Art Of Robert Robinson Exhibit" . Posted by Wizzard Gallery, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, December 29-January 31, 2009. Robert Robinson, American illustrator and originator of the Saturday Evening Post's "Slice of Life" style of cover art (later popularized by Norman Rockwell), shared his talents with the Hearst Corporation and their MOTOR MAGAZINE monthly publication from 1926 to 1952. Targeted at the service station and garage trade, Mr. Robinson's covers featured all types of motoring maladies experienced by everyone from dowdy matrons to pouty pin-ups, bawdy mechanics to rowdy motorcyclists, and cute kids emulating their parents' problems. Escaping the mechanical malaise was also a reoccurring theme in the artist's work. With the onset of World War II many of the covers showed a decidedly patriotic air as America mobilized its efforts. From the h... Read full biography
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