Kenneth James Stuart, Art Director Saturday Evening Post this was in his personal collection. this was Gouache and ink on board measures 13 1/2" x 15".
From the Saturday evening post short biography: "Ken Stuart (1905-1993) was a longtime art director for The Saturday Evening Post. He studied at both the Pennsylvania Academy of Art and l’Academie Colarossi located in Paris. Stuart was a freelance cartoonist in additional to creating illustrations for ads and magazine covers.
In 1943 Stuart became the art director at The Saturday Evening Post. He worked side by side with Norman Rockwell for18 years. Rockwell has even been quoted as saying he wouldn’t have been the artist he became without Stuart.
Stuart then went on to become art director at Reader’s Digest. He died in Wilton Connecticut at age 87.
He created four covers for The Saturday Evening Post."
In addition he had several interior illustations. this was from a series called "People You Know" in which he did each of the illustrations in 1943.
Samuel Goldwyn (/'go?ldw?n/ GOHLD-win; born Szmuel Gelbfisz; Yiddish: ????? ????????; July 1879 or 1882[a] – January 31, 1974) was a Polish-born American film producer and pioneer in the American film industry, who produced the United States's first major motion picture. He was best known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios.[1] He was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (1973),[2] the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1947), and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1958).
In 1914, Paramount was a film exchange and exhibition corporation headed by W. W. Hodkinson. Looking for more movies to distribute, Paramount signed a contract with the Lasky Company on 1 June 1914 to supply 36 films per year. One of Paramount's other suppliers was Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Company. The two companies merged on 28 June 1916, forming the Famous Players–Lasky Corporation. Zukor had been quietly buying Paramount stock, and two weeks before the merger, became president of Paramount Pictures Corporation and had Hodkinson replaced with Hiram Abrams, a Zukor associate.[8]
In 1946, the year he was honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, Goldwyn's drama, The Best Years of Our Lives, starring Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Teresa Wright and Dana Andrews, won the
