Details
George Hughes (1907-1990)
Date for the Dance
signed 'Hughes-' (lower left)
oil on paperboard
2812 x 2814 in. (72.4 x 71.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1950.
Provenance
Illustration House, New York, 5 May 2001, lot 60.
American Illustrators Gallery, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, 2012.
Literature
The Saturday Evening Post, August 5, 1950, cover illustration.
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post: Seventy Years of Outstanding Illustration from America's Favorite Magazine, New York, 1995, p. 228, illustrated.
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This work was published as the cover of the August 5, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

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