Friday, March 19, 2010

1950 Program Cover (From Buckles)


Scan12694, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

I was walking back from the cook house when I noticed a small
group of people gathered around looking at something and out of
curiosity I found that Tommy Bentley had just received a copy of this
1950 program and was passing it around.
Plenty of comment about the forlorn expressions and I remember Tommy saying, "Looks like they were just told there would be a
third show."
Something we were quite familiar with on Kelly Miller in those days.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 3/19/2010 05:57:00 AM

2 comments:

Jack Ryan said...

Buckles,

You will note that the cover painting was done by James Montgomery Flagg. He and Norman Rockwell were the premier and most prolific magazine cover illustrators of that period.

Anybody old enough to remember Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Liberty and others? Those long-defunct magazines were among Flagg's many clients.

Jack

19 March, 2010 13:00
Dick Flint said...

Of course, Flagg was most famous for his classic face of Uncle Sam (actually an aging rendition of Flagg himself) on a World War I poster and pointing at the viewer saying "I WANT YOU" for the U.S. Army!
Dick Flint
Baltimore

19 March, 2010 17:49

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