Harry Dunn, Whimsical Harry Dunn Painting Sleeping Girl Mid Century Americana Folk Art

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Harry Dunn (1929-1998).
Acrylic on board painting
Sleeping Matilda
Hand signed lower right
Mid 20th century
Dimensions: Sight: 19" x … Read more Harry Dunn (1929-1998).
Acrylic on board painting
Sleeping Matilda
Hand signed lower right
Mid 20th century
Dimensions: Sight: 19" x 27". Overall: 20.5" x 28.25"

Depicting a girl in a red dress sleeping on a green woven basket in front of a green background.

American artist Harry Dunn (1929-1998).
Biography: Harry Dunn was extremely successful in two worlds of art, both fine and commercial art. Dunn was every bit the versatile artist. Although his background includes extensive exposure to the Pennsylvania Brandywine School of painting, his own personal style is far from traditional. Yet, it is a folksy style that has wide appeal, and many of his works complement otherwise traditional collections bringing fresh –sometimes whimsical view of traditional subjects. Dunn attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia College of Art & the Art Students League of New York. He worked in New York & Philadelphia in advertising, television & illustration. Among his notable achievements the NBC peacock, and the covers of The New Yorker, Park East and Fortune magazines. Graphic design was an important facet of Dunn’s work which no doubt accounts for his extraordinary success in commercial design. Such corporate giants of his day Scott Paper, Yale & Towne, National Distillers, Bates Canon and Villager Clothes enjoyed positive sales impact from his creativity. In fact there was very little in the field of commercial art that Harry Dunn had not undertaken, designing openings for TV’s Hit Parade or Dave Garroway shows and promotional films when he directed the motion picture and slide film division of Mel Richman Inc. Dunn’s works were featured on the covers of House & Garden, Fortune and the New Yorker magazines. He is of the period of Lionel Kalish, Seymour Chwast, Sid Chafetz, Saul Bass, Ivan Chermayeff, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Ikko Tanaka and Henryk Tomaszewski. It is a great modernist illustration style.
For those who lived in the Delaware Valley in the 1960’s & 1970’s you would remember his murals in local hotels, apartment buildings and banks. He designed business logos and signs that many of us still remember. See less