John Philip Falter (1910-1982)
Property from a Distinguished New York Collection
John Philip Falter (1910-1982)

Commuters in the Rain

Details
John Philip Falter (1910-1982)
Commuters in the Rain
signed 'John Falter' (lower left)
oil on masonite
29 ½ x 22 ¾ in. (75 x 57.8 cm.)
Painted in 1961.
Provenance
American Illustrators Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1994.
Literature
The Saturday Evening Post, October 7, 1961, p. 3, cover illustration.
J. Cohn, Covers of the Saturday Evening Post, New York, 1995, p. 275, illustrated.

Lot Essay

The present work was published as the cover illustration of the October 7th, 1961 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

The Post editors wrote of this cover, “Nineteen moist commuters. See how they run. Scarcely a word of complaint about how the rain in suburbia seems to fall mainly when they detrain. Artist John Falter can afford to laugh at these rush-hour scurriers. Falter's studio is in his home and he painted the railroad station at nearby Gwynedd Valley, Pa., in his own good time, when the sun was shining.” (The Saturday Evening Post, October 7, 1961, p. 3)

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