3 #MARCH #WorldWildlifeDay
#Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for Gerald Movius, “So Long, Voyageur”
*Reader’s Digest*, 1953
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #wildlife #CanadaGeese #migration #biodiversity

Leon Ware, “The Outsider”
‘He wasn’t their kind and the gentlemen yachtsmen let him know it.’
*The Saturday Evening Post*, February 27, 1960
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #sailboats #sailing #yachting

#OTD in 1960
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‘Chapin’s boat cut viciously across Joe’s bow.’
Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #sailboats #sailing #yachting

O. E. French, “Last Chance for Meat”
‘Back in the hungry ’30’s a British Columbia trapper had to gamble to eat regularly’
*Argosy*, February 1960
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #hunting #BritishColumbia

In #FEBRUARY 1960
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‘I handed the empty Krag back to Eddie and opened up with the little .22 as the goat came down the ledge’ Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #hunting

James Ramsey Ullman, “Middle Age Meets the Matterhorn”
*Reader’s Digest*, December 1953
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #mountainclimbing #mountainclimbers #Matterhorn

In #DECEMBER 1953
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Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #mountainclimbing #mountainclimbers

#OTD in 1960
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‘Suddenly the birds rose in a wild drum of sound.’
Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen

Western Electric
*The Saturday Evening Post*, October 17, 1953
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #telecommunications #WesternElectric #BellLaboratories

William Otha Hopper, “Timber Thieves”
‘‘They were stripping his land because they thought he was too young and too afraid to stop them.’
*The Saturday Evening Post*, October 8, 1960
#logging #forest #mountains #illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen

#OTD in 1960
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‘“Don’t cut any more and don’t move what you’ve already cut,” Ben said.’
Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen

3 #MARCH #WorldWildlifeDay
#Illustration by Denver Gillen for Gerald Movius, “So Long, Voyageur”. *Reader’s Digest*, 1953.
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #wildlife #CanadaGeese #migration #biodiversity

Leon Ware, “The Outsider”
‘He wasn’t their kind and the gentlemen yachtsmen let him know it.’
*The Saturday Evening Post*, February 27, 1960
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #sailboats #sailing #yachting

#OTD in 1960
🧵👇
‘Chapin’s boat cut viciously across Joe’s bow.’
Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #sailboats #sailing #yachting

O. E. French, “Last Chance for Meat”
‘Back in the hungry ’30’s a British Columbia trapper had to gamble to eat regularly’
*Argosy*, February 1960
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #hunting #BritishColumbia

In #FEBRUARY 1960
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‘I handed the empty Krag back to Eddie and opened up with the little .22 as the goat came down the ledge’ Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #hunting

John D. MacDonald, “The Unsuitable Girl”
‘Collier’s Short Short’
*Collier’s*, February 3, 1956
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #JohnDMacDonald #DenverGillen #mensfashion #records #recordplayer #1950s

#THISWEEK in 1956
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‘Thomas sensed the strain in the air. “What’s with you and Pamela?” he asked his son’
#Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #mensfashion #1950s

James Ramsey Ullman, “Middle Age Meets the Matterhorn”
*Reader’s Digest*, December 1953
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #mountainclimbing #mountainclimbers #Matterhorn

In #DECEMBER 1953
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Illustration by Denver Gillen (1914-1975) for ➡️
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #DenverGillen #mountainclimbing #mountainclimbers