Painted for the Father’s Day cover (June 18, 1939) of This Week Magazine by Russell Sambrook (American, 1891-1956).
Illustrators such as Sambrook fill in the gap between the age dominated by Joseph Leyendecker and the renaissance of Americana seen through Norman Rockwell’s eyes. Sambrook’s approach to visual design and sense of stagey humor owe a great deal to his predecessors, while his ability to isolate the concerns and foibles of the American Everyman hint at the vision of his successors. Sambrook’s career was eclipsed by other Saturday Evening Post regulars like E. M. Jackson, Ellen Pyle, and Norman Rockwell.