Saturday Ads

A collection of really cool ads mostly from 1925 with a few from the 30s thrown in. Happy New Year!

Cover Art

Sports Afield December 1972

Cover Artist John Scott

Cover Artist P. B. Parsons

 

National Sportsman

October 1934

Cover art by P.B. Parsons 

"Philip Brown Parsons 'Philip Parsons': A twentieth century painter, illustrator and etcher, Philip Parsons studied art at the Boston School of Painting and at M.I.T. He also took instructions in etching from W. H. Bicknell. He was a full member of the Guild of Boston Artists, the Boston Watercolor Society, Concord Art Association and President of the Lexington Arts and Crafts Society. Philip Parsons was also commissioned to paint historical scenes for Lexington and today these works are preserved in the collection of that community.  A fine landscape and figure painter, Parsons first gained recognition in the early 1920's as an illustrator and cover artist for such publications as National Sportsman, Youth's Companion, Outdoors and 4-H Horizons" Art of the Print.

Poised in the sunlight

 

"The Topi gazed fixed at the cat poised in     the sunlight. I'd never seen a lovlier sight'

Illustration by Bob Kuhn article by Jack O'Connor

Outdoor Life August 1964

One of the greatest for more on Bob Kuhn visit here

One Down

Hercules Powder ad 

August 1921

Forest And Stream

Forest and Stream

Cover Illustration by H. Armstrong Roberts

August 1921

Fly Fishing

Cover Painting by Arthur Fuller

Field & Stream May 1941

Five Cents A Copy

Hunting And Fishing

March 1934

Saturday's Cover Artist; William Reusswig

Sports Afield October 1946

Artist: William Reusswig

Frank William Reusswig was born in Somerville, New Jersey into a family of German ancestry. He studied at Amherst College and did his first illustration assignments for magazines like like Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Saturday Evening Post and Country Gentleman. After severing in World War II, he sold freelance illustrations to men's adventure magazines like True, Argosy, Sports Afield and Outdoor Life. He also made a comic adaptations of novels for the newspaper section by King Features and the Book-of-the-Month Club (a.o. 'Paris Underground'). Reusswig married author and illustrator Martha Sawyers, with whom he traveled around the world and produced several books about the Far East.
Source:  Lambiek Comiclopedia

Cover Artist Herb Chidley

Outdoors 

November 1939

Cover by Herb Chidley

Sunday Testimonial 1922

Appeared in National Sportsman 1922

"Dr. Beil now acknowledges that golf is a weak sister compared with shooting over decoys"

Saturday's Cover Artist: Arthur Fuller

Field & Stream

July 1938

Arthur D. Fuller (1889-1966). Arthur D. Fuller was a major contributor to Field & Stream, painting covers for the magazine for many years. A skillful artist who had studied with Harvey Dunn, he was able to express on canvas his love of the outdoors, and with his keen eye and painterly style, he shared it with millions. He was equally adept in other subject matter, and his work appeared in many of the major publications, such as McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, and Collier's.

Balancing Rock Garden of the Gods

World Champion Accuracy

Western Ammunition advertisement

Spots Afield Sept. 1937

" Marine Gunner Henry P. Crowe U.S.M.C. with Wimbledon Cup and his world record target -100x100 with 19 V's for 20 shots at 1000 yards with Western Ammunition"

Trouting Again

"Trouting Again"

National Sportsman April 1937

A bit ragged but still true.

Fish and Fishing

Courtney Allen

Illustrated by Courtney Allen

For Outdoor Life

December 1954

Ruffed Grouse Strutting

Ruffed Grouse Strutting

Etching by W. J. Schaldach

Appeared in Outdoor Life November 1932

Brave was my dog

Illustrated by Bill Johnson 1962

" I lay helpless and paralyzed by fear, but Brave, though badly hurt, sailed straight into the crazed cat as it lunged toward me."

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