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A Covered Wagon Confrontation

Artist:Jerome Rozen
Date:1927
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 21" x 30" Framed 25" x 34"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover for Popular Stories Pulp Magazine - June 7, 1927
Price: Sold
Full View of pastel
Full View of pastel
The artwork as it appeared as the cover of Popular Magazine June 1927, included with sale
The artwork as it appeared as the cover of Popular Magazine June 1927, included with sale
The artist's signature lower left
The artist’s signature lower left
Detail
Detail

Early cover painting by Jerome Rozen for the June 7, 1927 long running twice monthly adventure pulp title Popular Stories. This painting illustrates a moment from the first installment of “Marching Men” by Fred Mac Isaac, which told the story of settlers moving west through Indian country in the immediate aftermath of the Civil war. The scene shows a  covered wagon western Americana image with civil war drama. The depiction, in the strong color blocks for which the pulps were famed, features a Union soldier in conflict with an elderly African American former slave and sympathetic young damsel who are attempting to flee unspoken horrors through the desolate prairie.

Framed in an old and likely original soft pine wood simple frame
Framed in an old and likely original soft pine wood simple frame
Verso view of original pine stretchers and old canvas with one professionally repaired canvas tear
Verso view of original pine stretchers and old canvas with one professionally repaired canvas tear

The verso pine stretchers have pencil notations that read “June 7, 1927 Popular.”

Above: Verso notations on pine back stretcher

The Popular Magazine was a very successful and long running Street & Smith publication that was essentially adventure based stories for what the publishers referred to “as common people.” In 1903 The Popular Magazine was launched, and was billed as the “biggest magazine in the world” (by virtue of being two pages longer than Argosy). The Popular Magazine introduced the use of color covers to the pulp world, Harvey Dunn, Edgar Wittmack and Jerome Rozen were among artists that created covers for the title.

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Above: Another example of a Jerome Rozen cover for this title
Above: Another example of a Jerome Rozen cover for this title
Above: Another example of a Jerome Rozen cover for this title

The twin brother of illustrator George Rozen, Jerome Rozen became a well-known pulp illustrator. Both of the boys showed early art talent.

For health reasons before World War I, he and his brother as teenagers with the other members of the immediate family moved to Flagstaff, Arizona. In World War I, Jerome served in Europe where he visited many art galleries. He enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago where he became a teacher, and his students included his brother who came a year later. Some of his early illustrations were for Boy’s Life and The Popular Magazine as early as 1927, and Battle Stories by 1928.

Jerome Rozen and his wife, Della Kretchmar, moved to the Bronx where he opened a studio and became a highly successful pulp artist and illustrator, getting early attention for his cover work illustrating “The Shadow” written by Walter Gibson and published by Street and Smith.

His wife was killed in an auto accident, and he was severely injured, but he lived to age 92. In his later years, photography replaced his interest in illustration.

A Covered Wagon Confrontation

Artist: Jerome Rozen
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, civil war, Golden Age, Jerome Rozen, magazine cover, original cover art, Popular Stories, pulp, Street & Smith, The Shadow, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2011

 

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