GODS, MYTHS AND MORTALS - THE AMERICAN WEEKLY ILLUSTRATIONS

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In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,”as he was billed on the front covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly. The contract lasted nearly 30 years.From the 1920s onward, Dulac’s income came primarily from his American Weekly illustrations. He painted 106 watercolors for thirteen different series from 1924 through 1951.


 


The two series featured here are the 1931 Love Stories the Ancients Believed In and the 1933 Myths the Ancients Believed. For ‘Love Stories’, Dulac painted the lovers at the moment of their highest drama, according to the interpretation from Ovid’s tales. They were republished in Good Housekeeping magazine and later as book by Hugh Williamson Ross titled Gods and Mortals in Love published by Country Life Books in 1936. It was so popular that Dulac quickly followed up with ‘Myths’. Both are painted in his high art deco tableau style, with the characters frozen in the act. This is the first republishing since then.





Love Stories the Ancients Believed In- 1931


 


Perseus and Andromeda


Pan and Syrinx


Psyche and Eros


Circe and Ulysses


Orpheus and Eurydice


Europa and Zeus


Selene and Endymion


 Hercules and Dejanira


 Persephone and Pluto


Venus and Adonis


Medea and Jason


 


Myths the Ancients Believed- 1933


 


Iris and The God of Sleep


Echo and Narcissus


Hercules and Hebe


Glaucus and Scylla


Pomona and Vertumnus


Diana and Actaeon


Ariadne and Bacchus


Flora and Zephyr


 


 

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Details

Publisher - Dulacebooks

Language - English

Perfect Bound

Contributors

Illustrated by

Edmund Dulac

Edited by

Albert Seligman


Published Date - 2025-01-12

ISBN - 9789564184920

Dimensions - 25.4 x 20.3 x 0.2 cm

Page Count - 34

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