Stevan Dohanos

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Stevan Dohanos (b. May 18, 1907, Lorain, Ohio - d. 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.

Dohanos 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.

[edit] See also

• Barefoot Mailman

[edit] References

• The United States Air Force Art Collection - Brief biography of Stevan Dohanos - URL retrieved November 8, 2005
• Another brief biography of Stevan Dohanos - URL retrieved December 22, 2005
• American Realist - Stevan Dohanos - URL retrieved December 22, 2005
• Stevan Dohanos posters, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Collections