Ladies’ Home Journal

Harry Anderson’s Art for

Ladies’ Home Journal

These paintings range from 1944-1961

 I’ve located 70 LHJ illustrations!

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September 1947

(Located in September 2015, only 68 years later…)


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April 1954

(Located in April 2015 — Harry’s signature is missing on the art, but in small type they credited “Illustration by Harry Anderson”)


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November 1956

Steve Rude made this b&w xerox for me 15-20 years ago — unfortunately it cut off the story title, and he didn’t let me know what magazine it was published in… so I just only managed to finally locate it last week in July 2014!



So now I finally have it!!!

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March 1956

*(Located in November 2013)


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March 1958

*(Located in Nov 2013)


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February 1956

LHJ56Feb web

LHJ56Feb2 web

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January 1953

In the 1990’s Steve Rude sent me this B&W xerox…

LHJ53Jan Rudes

Steve visited Harry on May 27, 1988 and Harry autographed it for him…

On September 4th, 2013 I *finally* located the magazine and acquired a FULL COLOR copy of this absolutely gorgeous illustration!!

LHJ53Jan web

In my opinion this is one of Harry’s most beautiful paintings!

LHJ53Jan2web

Harry told Steve that the dog was “very difficult” to pose & paint…but he turned out GREAT!

LHJ53Jan2aweb

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June 1959

This was another one that Steve Rude sent to me as a b&w xerox many years ago…

LHJ59JuneBWeb

In October 2013 Steve sent me the magazine as a gift and I finally saw this illustration in full color!!

LHJ59June web

LHJ59June2 web

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June 1950

*(I was born in June 1950, so it was really neat to find this one!)

LHJ50June web

LHJ50June2 web

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October 1951

NOTE:  Kristin told me that’s her dad Harry in this painting!

LHJ51oct web

LHJ51oct2 web

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October 1959

LHJ59oct web

LHJ59octGirl

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July 1959

LHJ59July web

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March 1947

LHJ47Mar web

LHJ47MarchMag web

Byron Souder posed for this painting, he’s holding the sled!

Back in 2007 a person posted on a blog that he was looking for this illustration — I read that blog in Feb 2014 and contacted him — he told me that back in July 1946 on a very hot summer day he and his sister (the girl in the foreground) posed with some other local kids for Harry Anderson for this painting when they lived in Washington D.C.!  The boy pointing at him was Elvin Gibson, who grew up to be an Adventist physician who practiced in Tennessee but is no longer alive — Byron is 77 years old at this time in 2014, and he was thrilled to finally see this painting and all the other Harry Anderson’s on this website!

LHJ47MarchSCAN

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September 1953

LHJ53Sep web

LHJ53Sep2 web

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July 1955

LHJ55July web

LHJ55July web2

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September 1952

LHJ52Sept web

LHJ52Sep2 web

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July 1945

LHJ45JulyMag web

This young boy’s mother dies, and she told him she was just going to go to “Another Room” — and to comfort himself the boy plays with his favorite Christmas Angel Toy…

LHJ45July web2

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July 1956

LHJ56JulyMag web

LHJ56July web

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May 1954

Hacking web

HackingMomSon

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November 1955

LHJ55Nov web

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November 1946 “Susie”

LHJ46Nov web

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February 1955

LHJ55FebMag web

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August 1954

LHJ54augMag web

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November 1947

LHJ47Nov web

LHJ47NovMag web

LHJ47Nov man

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September 1946

LHJ46SepMag web

LHJ46Sept girl

LHJ46Sept man

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March 1959

LHJ59MarMag web

LHJ59Mar web

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October 1954

LHJ54octmag web

LHJ54oct web

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July 1951

LHJ51July web

LHJ51July web2

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January 1951 – “Thanks To Noah”

LHJ51Jan web

LHJ51Jan web2

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January 1958

A pastor has 6 months to live and must tell his wife & son...

LHJ58Jan web

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February 1950 – 2 stories/3 illustrations!

LHJ50Feb w1

LHJ50Feb w2

LHJ50Feb w3

LHJ50Feb w4

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October 1954 – 2nd story

LHJ54oct w

LHJ54oct w2

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February 1952

LHJ52Feb web

LHJ52FebFaces

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December 1946

LHJ46DecMag web

LHJ46Dec web

In 1991 Steve Rude visited Harry and took this pic of Harry looking at this LHJ illustration:

SRpic2 LHJ46Dec

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September 1954

LHJ54Sep web

LHJ54Sep2web

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March 1955

LHJ55Mar web

LHJ55MarGirl

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April 1953

LHJ53Apr web

LHJ53AprGirl

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May 1948

LHJ48MayMag web

LHJ48May web

*(Compare it to Harry’s 1954 calendar illustration:)

LHJ48 1954calendar

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 May 1944

LHJ44MayMag

 LHJ44May web

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 May 1946

LHJ46MayMag

LHJ46MayPic

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July 1946

LHJ46JulyMag

LHJ46JulyPic

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 August 1946

LHJ46AugMag web

LHJ46Aug

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May 1947

LHJ47MayMagWeb

LHJ47MayTalker

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January 1948

LHJ48Jim web

10-15 years ago Steve Rude sent me this b&w xerox of this illustration…

LHJ48bw web

….and in 2013 I finally located the issue and got it in full color!!

LHJ48Jan web

LHJ48JanWeb

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March 1948

LHJ48mar

LHJ48mar2

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June 1948

LHJ48june

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September 1948

LHJ48SepMag

LHJ48Sep2

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 November 1948

LHJ48Nov

INTERESTING COMPARISON:  John Gannam was another good artist who illustrated for the same magazines as Harry, and this Gannam piece appeared 5 years earlier in a 1943 Good Housekeeping:

GH43May G

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March 1949

LHJ49Mar web

LHJ49MarDetail

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 April 1949

LHJ49AprMag

LHJ49Apr

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August 1949

LHJ49Aug

LHJ49Aug2

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December 1949

 LHJ49DecMag

LHJ49Dec

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 April 1950

LHJ50Apr web

LHJ50AprilFace

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 August 1950 – Part 1 of 3

 LHJ50AugWeb

September 1950 – Part 2 of 3

LHJ50Sep

Yes, in the story the mom got a nose job!

LHJ50Sep2

I also made a puzzle of this one (and I included one of my pics I took of Harry)…

Mom2web

October 1950 – Part 3 of 3

…and the mom with her new nose got married…

LHJ50octMag

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December 1950 (another wedding!)

LHJ50DecMag

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April 1951

 LHJ51Apr

 April 1952

 LHJ52Apr

December 1953

LHJ53Dec

The text covered up a LOT of Harry’s art!

 LHJ53DecArt

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January 1954

LHJ54Jan web

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February 1954

LHJ54FebMagWeb

LHJ1954 0

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May 1957

LHJ57May web

1957PeaceFinally web

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July 1957

(2 versions of this painting of Grace Kelly)

LHJ57July web

BELOW: The 2nd version “flipped” / Harry’s signature cropped off / Grace Kelly’s chin “softened”:

LHJ57July2 web

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September 1958

 LHJ58Sep

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 December 1958 – 2 illustrations

LHJ58DecSCAN

 LHJ58Dec

LHJ58dec2

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May 1959

 LHJ59May

It was printed “round” in the magazine, but that cut off a lot of the painting…

LHJ59May2

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August 1959

LHJ59AugMag web

The art without the text:

LHJ59AugArt

LHJ59Aug2web

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July 1961

LHJ61July

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 (MORE TO COME… if I find them….)

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