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Painting of the Day, December 4, 2011

DateSunday, December 4, 2011 at 9:43PM

By Donna Poulton

Credit: Heritage Auctions.com

William D. Koerner (1878-1938), Shoveling Out, [Saturday Evening Post story illustration] 1924, oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in.

William Koerner painted during the end of the “Golden Years of Western Illustration.”  His considerable talent as a draftsman landed him jobs with Harper’s, Good Housekeeping, Colliers and Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s and 30s. And like other illustrators working to fuel the media craze for pictures of the West, his images came to represent western life for Americans in the East and for many Europeans who were fascinated with West. 

For more information on Koerner you might be interested in this post about another of his paintings:

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