Stevan Dohanos

Mining Village, a study by Stevan Dohanos for a mural in the Huntington, West Virginia office of the United States Forestry Service
(From the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Stevan Dohanos (1907 - 1994) was an artist and illustrator of the social realism school, best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and responsible for several of the Don't Talk set of World War II propaganda posters. He named Grant Wood and Edward Hopper as the greatest influences on his painting.

Stevan Dohanos was born in Lorain, Ohio, May 18, 1907. He attended the Cleveland School of Art. He worked in fine art as well as in commercial art. His easel paintings and prints have been displayed in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and Dartmouth College. He was nationally known as an illustrator and magazine cover artist, particularly for his work appearing in The Saturday Evening Post. He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters and the Society of Illustrators. He was a founding faculty member of the Famous Artists School of Westport, Connecticut. In the 1960s he became chairman of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, which selected art to appear on United States postage stamps.