{"id":183,"date":"2019-02-05T11:15:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-02-05T11:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T19:16:43","slug":"1940-1950-the-golden-age-part-2-stevan-dohanos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/2019\/02\/05\/1940-1950-the-golden-age-part-2-stevan-dohanos\/","title":{"rendered":"1940-1950 The Golden Age Part 2: Stevan Dohanos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stevan Dohanos was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don&#8217;t Talk set of World War II propaganda posters. He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/StevanDohanos-610x484.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Stevan Dohanos\u00a0in his studio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was in demand both for advertising and illustration assignments, and he was also commissioned to paint murals in public buildings in West Virginia, West Palm Beach, and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.&nbsp;He was determined to try for the coveted job of creating covers for&nbsp;<em>The Saturday Evening Post<\/em>, and in 1943&nbsp;he succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/15\/e4\/dc\/15e4dca4a86ffdda65fb2cd953160f81.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>1951 The Saturday Evening Post cover by Stevan Dohanos<br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/76\/a8\/e7\/76a8e71b83ff38fe7886ae99e7fbee02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>1948 he Saturday Evening  Post cover by Stevan Dohanos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dohanos was known for taking infinite pains in creating his illustrations.\u00a0Often they reflected back to people and places from his childhood or incidents he observed in the countryside.\u00a0Whatever scenes they represented, his paintings were illuminated by his kind humor and his passionate love for the American scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.illustrationhistory.org\/images\/uploads\/Dohanos3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>The Vacationers &#8211; 1951, Oil Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to his more famous works, Dohanos oversaw the design of more than 300 commemorative postage stamps, including a 1959 stamp honouring the tenth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/29\/61\/06\/2961065850d5a30709046c733e4c643d.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>NATO&#8217;s 10th Anniversary postage stamp<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.illustrationhistory.org\/\">https:\/\/www.illustrationhistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org\">https:\/\/connecticuthistory.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artinstamps.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/stevan-dohanos-1st-part-19591970.html\">http:\/\/artinstamps.blogspot.com\/2015\/11\/stevan-dohanos-1st-part-19591970.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stevan Dohanos was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don&#8217;t Talk set of World War II propaganda posters. He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting. 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