Featuring an action-packed early football image, this exciting, fresh-to-the-market pulp cover painting is signed lower right by Clyde Forsythe, an American illustrator who created a number of iconic American WWI propaganda posters.This large oil on canvas dates to around 1920 and we have so far have not been able to find where this appeared. Our hunch is that is was a cover for Top Notch, a popular long running Street & Smith title that focused on sports and the active life, frequently with football cover images in this style. It is hard to fathom but in the heyday of the pulps, during the early 1930s there were seven exclusive football related competing pulp titles, including  Thrilling Football Stories, Exciting Football, Football Action, and Popular Football.

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