EXTRACTS: Illustrators issue 21 © 2017 The Book Palace (96 PAGES in Full edition)

39 lettering painter that he learned more about colour, scale, composition and other artistic basics than he did at art school. It is said he was also strongly influenced by “The Eight” (Henri, Sloan, Glackens, Shinn, Prendergast, Davies, Lawson, and Luks) and their realistic paintings. After art school, Dohanos gained his first experiences of the commercial art field when he worked for an advertising firm in Cleveland. Seeking work beyond the confines of an ad agency studio, he then traveled around the country painting murals before heading to New York to work as a commercial artist. His first magazine illustration was for McCall’s in 1938, and that same year he married his longtime sweetheart, Margit Kovacs, with whom he had two children, Peter and Paul. In the early 1940s he moved to the artist colony of Westport, Connecticut, where he found inspiration in the everyday life of his suburban neighbors. While working in the city, he also picked up advertising work from different ABOVE: The Gladiators , casein and gouache on board, 18.5” x 20.75”. Story illustration,circa 1940. An early example of Dohanos illustrations before starting to work for the Post . Once again, his attention to detail is uncanny, as he doesn’t limit himself to showing the two fighters but puts in the whole audience as well. Imaged by Heritage Auctions, HA.com