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Stanley R. Hunter  (1939-2000)


20th Century New York/Michigan artist best known for illustrations, automotive subjects, horses, and hounds.

Original oil painting on canvas

No visible signature

Created for the Franklin Library Edition of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

Canvas: 26"x 36"

PROVENANCE- From the Franklin Mint archive collection


Looks good, in "as found" original condition, surface abrasions, stretcher bar marks, unframed -- please look at photos carefully.

 

Fantastic original oil painting by Stan Hunter depicting a scene from Shaw's Pygmalion, a play in which the titualar character 

was named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called Pygmalion and Galatea that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with Adonis (musical) and the burlesque version, Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version. Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet.


This painting was created exclusively for the Franklin Library collection and is from the Franklin Mint archives. This is a fine example of Hunter's illustrations in good condition and with a nice provenance.

 My price of $599 is extremely reasonable and far below what one would be expected to pay for it in a gallery or at auction. 


Please view my other artwork listed on ebay this week--we are adding a new bunch every Thursday. If not sold they will go into my ebay store at a more realistic and higher buy-it-now price, or removed. 

Biography:

Stan Hunter was a fine-art artist and illustrator for over forty years.  In his long career, he
won New York Illustrator Show awards and was featured in the retrospective book on the best illustrators of the twentieth century, The Illustrator in America, A Century of Illustration by Walt and Roger Reed published by Madison Square Press for the Society of Illustrators.
 
Stan Hunter was born in Lansing, Michigan in 1939.  He studied at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts where he was greatly influenced by the teacher, Nicholas Buhalis.  Stan Hunter worked first in Detroit art studios but always with an agent in New York City.  In 1973, he moved with his wife, the illustrator Chris Duke, to Millbrook, New York, to be closer to their New York City  market.  Though he loved the work of fellow illustrators, Stan Hunter believed that a painter should only study the masters;  the Metropolitan Museum was his favorite haunt.  He worked in oil on canvas or prepared paper.
 
In his years as an illustrator, represented by Frank and Jeff Lavaty, Stan Hunter illustrated the works of many eminent writers for the Franklin Library, including Anton Chekov, George Bernard Shaw, Ernest Hemingway and Walt Whitman.  He illustrated many books for the Reader's Digest condensed books series.  In the 1970s, he was a featured repertoire artist for Newsweek magazine, covering the Watergate trial.  He did much work for TV Guide including the cover painting of Little House on the Prairie.  Stan Hunter always had a special love of jobs for the pharmaceutical companies and did a memorable series on the drug Haldol.  He occasionally illustrated annual reports.  In the 1980s, Stan Hunter entered the field of architectural painting, depicting interior spaces for buildings such as Lincoln Center and the Riverside Trump Building.
 
During the 1990s, Stan Hunter became interested in drawing and painting the Millbrook Hunt. After in-depth study of the structure and character of horses and hounds, he did many drawings and paintings of this subject.  In this work, Stan Hunter was represented by Chatellier Fine Arts in Millbrook.

Stan Hunter lived in Millbrook, NY from 1973 to the year 2000 when he died.


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