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
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January 1953
In the 1990’s Steve Rude sent me this B&W xerox…
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!!
In my opinion this is one of Harry’s most beautiful paintings!
Harry told Steve that the dog was “very difficult” to pose & paint…but he turned out GREAT!
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June 1959
This was another one that Steve Rude sent to me as a b&w xerox many years ago…
In October 2013 Steve sent me the magazine as a gift and I finally saw this illustration in full color!!
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June 1950
*(I was born in June 1950, so it was really neat to find this one!)
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October 1951
NOTE: Kristin told me that’s her dad Harry in this painting!
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October 1959
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July 1959
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March 1947
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!
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September 1953
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July 1955
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September 1952
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July 1945
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…
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July 1956
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May 1954
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November 1955
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November 1946 “Susie”
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February 1955
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August 1954
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November 1947
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September 1946
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March 1959
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October 1954
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July 1951
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January 1951 – “Thanks To Noah”
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January 1958
A pastor has 6 months to live and must tell his wife & son...
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February 1950 – 2 stories/3 illustrations!
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October 1954 – 2nd story
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February 1952
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December 1946
In 1991 Steve Rude visited Harry and took this pic of Harry looking at this LHJ illustration:
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September 1954
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March 1955
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April 1953
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May 1948
*(Compare it to Harry’s 1954 calendar illustration:)
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May 1944
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May 1946
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July 1946
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August 1946
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May 1947
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January 1948
10-15 years ago Steve Rude sent me this b&w xerox of this illustration…
….and in 2013 I finally located the issue and got it in full color!!
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March 1948
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June 1948
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September 1948
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November 1948
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:
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March 1949
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April 1949
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August 1949
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December 1949
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April 1950
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August 1950 – Part 1 of 3
September 1950 – Part 2 of 3
Yes, in the story the mom got a nose job!
I also made a puzzle of this one (and I included one of my pics I took of Harry)…
October 1950 – Part 3 of 3
…and the mom with her new nose got married…
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December 1950 (another wedding!)
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April 1951
April 1952
December 1953
The text covered up a LOT of Harry’s art!
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January 1954
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February 1954
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May 1957
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July 1957
(2 versions of this painting of Grace Kelly)
BELOW: The 2nd version “flipped” / Harry’s signature cropped off / Grace Kelly’s chin “softened”:
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September 1958
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December 1958 – 2 illustrations
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May 1959
It was printed “round” in the magazine, but that cut off a lot of the painting…
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August 1959
The art without the text:
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July 1961
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(MORE TO COME… if I find them….)
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