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1940 colorful fishing scene illustration...
1940 colorful fishing scene illustration...
Item # 722942
April 07, 1940
THE WEEK MAGAZINE section only of The Minneapolis Tribune, April 7, 1940 The front page of this section has a nice colorful illustration of a Father (grandfather?)-son fishing scene by. (see images) Other topics throughout
Complete magazine section only with 20 pages, tabloid size, a little margin wear, generally in good condition.
AI notes: Joseph Francis “J.F.” Kernan (1878–1958) was a prolific American illustrator of the early 20th century whose nostalgic, humorous depictions of everyday and outdoor life made him a staple of popular magazines during the 1910s through the 1940s; born in Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied and later taught at the Eric Pape School of Art in Boston, funding his education in part by playing professional baseball, and went on to create work for nearly every major periodical of the 1920s and ’30s, including The Saturday Evening Post—for which he painted 26 covers between 1924 and 1936—as well as Outdoor Life, Collier’s Liberty, The Country Gentleman, and Capper’s Farmer, often illustrating sporting and family themes with a keen eye for the “human side” of hunting, fishing, and dogs that reflected both his personal interests and the tastes of middle‑class America of the era.
Category: The 20th Century
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