Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "Molly Pitcher, 1944"
10" x 14"
pg. 20
This Pennsylvania railroad advertisement salutes the 23,000 women who went to work for the Pennsylvania Railroad after its male employees left to joing the armed services. It also compares them to the Revolutionary War folk hero, Molly Pitcher (born Molly Ludwig), who was said to have carried water to American soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in June, 1778.
1944-09-25
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Nash Kelvinator advertisement ; "I can see the hills of home"
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement using the imagined war-time experiences of an combat veteran as a "why we fight" message to urge continued home front support for the war effort. The drawing depicts a combat infantryman at night, peering into the distance.
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Fred Ludekens (1900–1982) was an American artist and illustrator. For more information on Ludekens visit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ludekens
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/06/fred-ludekens-close-up.html
1944-09-18
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Plymouth Motors (Chrysler Corporation) advertisement; "The mightiest weapon of war"
10" x 14"
Plymouth Motors advertisement praising the U. S. soldier and pledging its support in providing him the best tools possible.
1944-09-04
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Life Savers Candy advertisement; It's no sale, lady!"
10" x 14"
Life Savers Candy advertisement comparing the taste of its candy to the fresh fruit of a Pacific Island.
Steven Dohanos was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, and produced a large volume of work related to the war effort during World War II.
For more information on Dohanos:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevan_Dohanos
1944-05-29
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
International Harvester advertisement; "Invasion"
10" x 14"
International Harvester advertisement depicting the company's equipment on the war front. The picture depicts an International Diesel Tractor being offloaded from an LST.
1944-05-22
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Nash Kelvinator advertisement; "Mom..."
10" x 14"
Nash Kelvinator advertisement using the imagined war-time experiences of an combat veteran as a "why we fight" message to urge continued home front support for the war effort. The drawing depicts a combat medic attending to a dying soldier.
Fred Ludekens (1900–1982) was an American artist and illustrator. He was born in Hueneme, California on May 13, 1900, and grew up in California. He moved to San Francisco at the age of 20. Although he had no formal training in art, he found work as a billboard painter. He joined the advertising agency of Lord & Thomas in 1931, and transferred to the company's New York City office in 1939. He returned to San Francisco in 1945, and remained there until his death. Ludekens worked in a variety of media, often depicting rural scenes such as fruit ranches, coastal scenes, and the Indians of the Southwest. He produced story, article and cover illustrations for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, The American Magazine, Good Housekeeping, The Country Gentleman, Fortuneand True. During the 1950s he produced a series of paintings to be usedin advertisements for the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company. These paintings were of wildlife scenes as well as some depicting famous foresters such as Aldo Leopold and William B. Greeley. He also illustrated many books over the course of his life, and was a member of the founding faculty for the Famous Artists School.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Ludekens
For more examples of Ledeken's work, see:
http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/06/fred-ludekens-close-up.html
1944-05-22
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement; "On their way"
10" x 14"
Pennsylvania Railroad advertisement reminding civilians of the military priority of travel in the US during the war. The drawing depicts soldiers on a troop train heading to a waiting troop ship.
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Herbert Bonhert (1888-1967), American artist and illustrator. He drew a series of advertisements for the Pennsylvania Railroad in the 1940's
1944-05-15
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
North American Aviation Company advertisement; "15-gun salute from American flyers"
10" x 14"
North American Aviation Company advertisement depicting the company's B-25 Mitchell bomber in aerial combat. The advertisement includes a "cut away" drawing of the plane, a specialty of the artist, Reynold Brown during his time as a technical artist at the Company.
Reynold Brown (1917 – 1991) was an American realist artist who painted many Hollywood film posters.
During World War II he worked as a technical artist at North American Aviation.
Following the war Brown drew numerous advertisements and illustrations for magazines such as Argosy, Popular Science, Saturday Evening Post, Boy's Life, Outdoor Life, and Popula Aviation. Brown also drew paperback book covers.
Brown taught at the Art Center College of Design where he met Misha Kallis, then an art director at Universal Pictures.Through Kallis, Brown began his film poster work starting with The World in His Arms (1952), then did the art work for dozens of film posters, including:
Brown's original painting for the poster of The Alamo hung for many years at the actual Alamo in San Antonio, Texas
In 1994, Mel Bucklin's documentary about Reynold Brown entitled The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters was broadcast on US public television. A book reproducing many of Brown's artworks, Reynold Brown: A Life in Pictures, was published in 2009.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reynold_Brown
1944-05-08
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Electric Boat Company advertisement; "Up from the sea in subs"
10" x 14"
Electric Boat Company advertisement describing the exploits of its submarines during WWII in the Pacific. The drawing depicts an assault on Makin Island where U. S. Marine raiders landed from submarines.
Robert L. Benney (1904-2001) a prolific painter and illustrator "who belonged to the vanishing breed of American combat artists". When the United States entered World War II, combat artists added another dimension to what the public at home gleaned from grainy newsreels and still photos. Most of the artists were members of the armed forces.
Mr. Benney became one of the accredited civilian correspondents who went into battle to paint and draw the reality as well as the raw emotions in what they witnessed at close quarters.
They sent home the colors of gun smoke and flamethrowers and bloody bandages. Mr. Benney moved with the troops to cover land, sea and amphibious operations at Saipan and the Marianas. At the behest of Abbott Laboratories, he documented Army medical personnel in action in the South Pacific.
His representations of Army medicine were published in ''Men Without Guns.'' Other books to which he contributed were ''Our Flying Navy,'' ''The Illustrator in America, 1880-1980,'' ''WWII'' by James Jones, and Life magazine's ''Picture History of World War II.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/nyregion/robert-l-benney-97-prolific-combat-artist.html?_r=0
1944-05-05
Life (Chicago, Ill.)
Western Electric advertisement; "Field Headquarters"
10" x 14"
One of a series of Western Electric's advertisements depicting the use of its products in wartime.
Paul Rabut (1914-1983) a Westport, Connecticut artist known primarily for his abstract paintings, and as a designer of three United States postage stamps. He was the artist for a series of Western Electric Company advertisements during WWII. As an artist, he characteristically immersed himself so thoroughly in research for his illustrations that he became an authority on the subject matter of his assignments. This led to his long-time interest in the United States history, in logging, in Northwest Indian culture and artifacts, as well as other primitive art: Oceanic, pre-Columbian, and especially African wood-carvings and masks. He was a consultant for collectors and galleries on the subject of primitive art and had one of the finest private collections in the country.
Rabut attended the College of the City of New York, the art School of the National Academy of Design, the Grand Central Art School, and the Art Students League; his teachers included Jules Gotlieb, Harvey Dunn, Ivan Olinsky, and Lewis Daniel.
His first break came when one of his early story illustrations for American Girl magazine won the Art Directors Club Medal in their annual exhibition in 1942. This led directly to commissions from The Saturday Evening Post and other major magazines. Subsequently, he won several additional Art Directors Club Awards for both editorial and advertising illustrations, and his work was selected for the State Department exhibition of advertising art, which traveled to Europe and South America in 1952. He exhibited widely and is represented in the permanent collection of the U. S. Medical Museum, Washington, D.C.
http://www.illustratedgallery.com/artwork/for-sale/artist/paul-rabut
1944-03-20
Life (Chicago, Ill.)