Below are a couple of my paintings for Ford Times. I started doing work for them when I was 19 years old.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
65 Years Ago
In 1948 I was working at Gray, Garfield, Lang art studio in Detroit, the paintings that I did for Ford Times Magazine while I worked at Allied Artist were getting a lot of attention from Detroit art directors. I began to receive national ad assignments from the larger ad agencies. I just found a copy on eBay of the 1949 General Motors Annual Report for which I was assigned to paint the cover. GM was starting to build the Tech Center and they wanted me to a rendering of what it would look like when finished. I signed the painting, but they sent it back and wanted the signature removed, a disappointment.
Below are a couple of my paintings for Ford Times. I started doing work for them when I was 19 years old.
Below are a couple of my paintings for Ford Times. I started doing work for them when I was 19 years old.
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3 comments:
Beautiful annual report. Do you remember if you were working with aerial photos for reference?
Hi Tris, The place was just starting to be built so I had to draw it up from a plan. I'm not sure if they ever built that building in the lake.
Harry
Hi Tris, I just checked the internet for a plan of the Tech Center and that building in the lake was never built. At the time that i painted the illustration they wanted to show that building.
Harry
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