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Artist:Clyde Forsythe
Date:1917- 1925
Medium:Oil On Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 24" x 34" Framed 30" x 40"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover for an unidentified Street & Smith Publishers Pulp title - Likely Top Notch Weekly
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The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
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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.

Drop us a line if you have a printed edition of this in your collection!

Framed view in handsome gallery frame
Framed view in handsome gallery frame
Verso view of old canvas on original pine stretchers
Verso view of old canvas on original pine stretchers
Frame corner profile view
Frame corner profile view
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Detail

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Artist: Clyde Forsythe
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Clyde Forsythe, football, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, sports, The Golden Gallery, top notch
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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