Cover Art: 1950 Country Gentleman Magazine.

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A Portfolio of Four Cover Illustrations from the 1950 Country Gentleman Magazine

By Peter Helck, Lawrence Beall Smith, Ogden Pleissner, and Paul Sample

With the Original Artist's Biography Note Card Included for Each Print

With the Original Portfolio Folder

Print Sheet Size: 14 x 13.50 inches

Above: Four Cover Illustrations for Country Gentleman Magazine in 1950

(Reverse Side of Each Print is Blank)

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Above:  With a Biography of Each Artist Paper-Clipped to Each Print

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Above:  Includes the Original Paper Folder, With Information about the Prints

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The Country Gentleman Magazine:

Country Gentleman was an agriculture magazine founded in 1831 in Rochester, New York by Luther Tucker. Curtis Publishing Company purchased the magazine in 1911.  In the 1950s, Country Gentleman was the second most popular agricultural magazine in the US. In 1955 the magazine was purchased by Farm Journal.

It was the the oldest agricultural journal in America, when Genesee Farmer and The Cultivator merged.

The Country Gentleman magazine covers were created by leading American illustrations, including Norman Rockwell.

The Four Cover Illustrations in this Portfolio:

1.  Portrait of farmer Stuart Scofield of Connecticut by Peter Helck.  Farmers loading corn into silo.

Peter Helck ( born 1893 - died 1988) was an American illustrator who specialized in images of racecars. . His first sale was to the Brighton Beach Motordrome, and he was soon receiving commissions from the Sheepshead Bay Speedway.

Helck worked for many of the major automobile magazines, including The Autocar.  In the 1930s Helck was commissioned by the Sinclair Oil Company to produce a large format road map.

In the mid 1940s Helck was commissioned by Esquire magazine for eight paintings depicting early race car racing and classic cars.

In 1941 Helck bought the Locomobile Old 16 racecar, which had won the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup. He left that car to the Henry Ford Museum. Helck was one of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School.

2. Children playing in orchard, by Lawrence Beall Smith.

Lawrence Beall Smith ( born 1909 - died 1995) was an internationally-renowned artist.  He was born in Washington, D.C., in 1909, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago. He spent summers in Boston and Gloucester, Massachusetts, studying under Hard Zimmerman and Ernest Thurn.

In the 1930s he became known for his lithographs, which were distributed by the Associated American Artists, to promote printmaking. He also became associated with Abbott Laboratories by producing posters during World War II, most of which were war bond posters for the Treasury Department.

In 1944 he was war corespondent to cover the activities of the Medical Corps in Europe. He also witnessed the D-Day landings in Normandy. In the 1940s, he founded the Katonah Gallery / Katonah Museum in Westchester County, New York.

3. Building a hay stack on a ranch with an overshot hay stacker, by Ogden M. Pleissner.  This artist, Ogden Pleissner  was a native of Brooklyn, New York.  He lived in Dubois, Wyoming, and in the Wind River Valley.  Ogden Minton Pleissner taught at the Pratt Institute.  He also was the director and trustee of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

The Pleissner Gallery at Shelburne Museum features 40 of the Museum's 600 Pleissner works

4. Ice skating in New England, by Paul Sample.  This artist was artist-in-residence at Dartmough College, in Hanover, New Hampshire.  He was a native of Louisville, Kentucky.

He studied at Greenleaf Art School and then moved to Monrovia, California, to study at the Otis Art Institute, where he studied under Stanton Macdonald-Wright. He then taught architectural drawing at University of Southern California.

He painted in the style known as Social Realism. In December of 1934, Time magazine ranked Sample as one of America’s most important living painters. He would start traveling in the summers to Vermont, the home state of his wife, where his style shifted from urban social situations to rural scenes. Paul Sample was much influenced by the work of Jonas Lie.

Condition:   Nice Condition:  No library or institution markings. The portfolio includes 4 of the original 6 prints. (Two other prints were not included in this portfolio when I purchased it.) The Peter Helck  print has a small, half-inch tear in the margin, not entering the image. The Peter Helck print and the Paul Sample print has a faint trace of a rust mark in the margin from a paper clip. The outside of the paper folder has some minor spots.

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