Description
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
Details
Publisher - Dulacebooks
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
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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