J.C. Leyendecker Saturday Evening Post Cover Hits Record $4.1 Million
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The Saturday Evening Post and other magazine covers, Leyendecker s expansive influence on the field of commercial illustration has even extended to comic book artists. I know more than a few artists in the field who consider him an influence in the modern day. His cover for the November 21, 1914 issue of
The Saturday Evening Post, titled Beat-up Boy, Football Hero has just hammered at Heritage Auctions for an eye-popping $4.1 million.
J.C. Leyendecker November 21, 1914 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, titled Beat-up Boy, Football Hero
The pre-auction estimate for Beat-up Boy, Football Hero was $150,000-$250,000. The previous record for a J.C. Leyendecker original was set in December 2020 at Sotheby s, who sold his cover for the September 6, 1930
A history book s worth of legendary American artists comes to Heritage Auctions May 7
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (American, 1874-1951), Easter Promenade, The Saturday Evening Post cover study, 1932. Oil on canvas, 20-1/2 x 27-1/4 inches. Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000.
DALLAS, TX
.-Heritage Auctions announced one of the most thoughtful, comprehensive and bountiful American art events in recent memory. The catalog for the May 7 American Art Signature Auction reads like a syllabus, a history and a love letter to the men and women who have defined and defied the American landscape for centuries, among them such names as Norman Rockwell, Albert Bierstadt, Andrew Wyeth, Thomas Moran, Thomas Hart Benton, Grandma Moses.
Don Rittner
Boy Scouts, Detachable Collars, and a Troy Connection? By Don Rittner on December 30, 2020 at 9:21 PM
By Don Rittner
Chances are everyone knows a Boy Scout or two. This youth building movement began in London back in 1908. It was brought to America shortly after by W. D. Boyce, an American newspaperman, who after being aided by a London scout thought it would a great program for kids in the US.
After returning to America in 1910 he joined up with Edward S. Stewart and Stanley D. Willis and incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on February 8 of that year. Boyce was encouraged to take it nationally by Edgar M. Robinson, a leader of the YMCA in New York City, and offered financial help. That year the Woodcraft Indians led by Ernest Thompson Seton, the Boy Scouts of the United States headed by Colonel Peter Bomus, and the National Scouts of America headed by Colonel William Verbeck were absorbed into the new Boy Scouts of America. The first office