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John Ford Clymer (January 29, 1907 - November 2, 1989) was an American painter and illustrator known for his work that captured nature and the American West. Born in Ellensburg, Washington, Clymer first studied art through the Federal School correspondence course. He continued his study in Canada, where he spent eight years illustrating for Canadian magazines. In 1932, he married his childhood sweetheart, and five years later, in the fall of 1937, John and Doris Clymer moved to Westport, Connecticut, where he established his career as an illustrator for American magazines, including ''Argosy'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Woman's Day'' and ''Field and Stream''. While in the Marine Corps, he illustrated for ''Leatherneck Magazine'' and the ''Marine Corps Gazette''. His work in advertising included paintings for White Horse Scotch Whisky, the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Chrysler Corporation. ==''The Saturday Evening Post''== Clymer did 80 covers for ''The Saturday Evening Post''. Interviewed by Walt Reed, he recalled: :Just before the War II had done my first ''Post'' cover, an Alaska inland passage subject with a totem pole in the foreground, U.S. Navy destroyers and aircraft in the background. On a visit back home, out at Ellensburg, I noticed my young son, David, peering into a hole in an old poplar stump, looking for flickers nests. It immediately struck me as a good possibility for a ''Post'' cover. So I painted it, sent it in to them, and they bought it, saying they'd like to see a sketch for another idea. So I began to do a long series of ''Post'' covers -- approximately 80 of them over the next dozen years. My approach was to look for human interest subjects and then try to place them in a proper setting to fit the idea. Sometimes it would take a long time to bring the two elements together. One early idea involved a young boy playing in an abandoned auto chassis, but I couldn't figure out how to present it. Two years later, while driving through Jackson Hole in Wyoming, I noticed some old, rusty farm machinery in the corner of a field. It then struck me that this was a perfect spot for the old car. A Western boy would be brought up on horseback riding, but when he spotted the old auto body, he ceased to be a cowboy and was transformed into a hot rod driver. There was only one drawback about doing covers for the ''Post''. They went everywhere in the country, and because I picked and painted actual places, there would be several hundred people who lived nearby who'd scrutinize every detail to try to find something wrong. I had to be sure I knew all about everything included in a picture, and why it was there. There would always be someone like a telephone lineman who'd write in and say, "I don't think that was the kind of insulator they used in that area." The ''Post'' was good about those things. The only time I had to make a correction on a cover was when I sent in a picture that had an automobile in the foreground. I had completed everything, lights, chrome, trim, spokes, but forgot to paint in the door handle.〔(Reed, Walt. ''John Clymer, an Artist's Rendezvous with the Frontier West'', Northland, 1976, )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Clymer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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