ORIG VINTAGE MAGAZINE COVER/ SATURDAY EVENING POST - JUNE 30 1945
by: Atherton (Illust.), John

Still life of boy's playthings, art by John Atherton. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. Atherton had aspired to be a fine artist, however his first paid jobs were for commercial art firms designing advertisements for corporations such as General Motors, Shell Oil, Container Corporation of America, and Dole. However, by 1936, he returned to the fine arts. His poster for the New York World's Fair of 1939 displayed surrealist elements as observed by the burnt orange background and a blue floating earth. It featured Lady Liberty holding the symbols of the World's Fair, the Trylon and Perisphere, as well as Earth in her lap against an orange background.