Apache Flame!
Artist: Allen Anderson (1908 - 1995)
Apache Flame! From Frontier Stories, Summer 1950
Collector: Robert Lesser
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 20 1/2 Frame Dimension: 44 x 26 in. (111.8 x 66 cm)
Classifications: Oil Painting
Description (from museum):
Allen Gustav Anderson moved from Minnesota to New York in 1940 and began working in the pulp market, painting illustrations for publishers Ace Magazines, Fiction House, Harry Donenfeld, and Martin Goodman. After the war, in addition to painting pulp illustrations, he also created comic book cover illustrations for Ziff-Davis, a publisher of hobbyist magazines such as Popular Aviation.
Apache Flame! was created for “A Novelette of the Overland Trail” in Frontier Stories. The Overland stagecoach and wagon train trail traveled through Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, and California. It was used until 1869, when the Transcontinental Railroad took over mail and passenger transport to the west. When the trails were used to move settlers to western territories, there was a concern about Native Americans attempting to stem the flow of incomers to their lands. Anderson couched the premier figure of this Frontier Stories cover illustration as a courageous female warrior in the trappings of both 1950s life and the period's fantasies of strong capable women. A bit like an imaginary Annie Oakley (1860–1926) sharpshooter, this powerful woman turns back toward the pursuing Native Americans.
Apache Flame!
Artist: Allen Anderson (1908 - 1995)
Apache Flame! From Frontier Stories, Summer 1950
Collector: Robert Lesser
Date: 1950
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 30 x 20 1/2 Frame Dimension: 44 x 26 in. (111.8 x 66 cm)
Classifications: Oil Painting
Description (from museum):
Allen Gustav Anderson moved from Minnesota to New York in 1940 and began working in the pulp market, painting illustrations for publishers Ace Magazines, Fiction House, Harry Donenfeld, and Martin Goodman. After the war, in addition to painting pulp illustrations, he also created comic book cover illustrations for Ziff-Davis, a publisher of hobbyist magazines such as Popular Aviation.
Apache Flame! was created for “A Novelette of the Overland Trail” in Frontier Stories. The Overland stagecoach and wagon train trail traveled through Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Oregon, and California. It was used until 1869, when the Transcontinental Railroad took over mail and passenger transport to the west. When the trails were used to move settlers to western territories, there was a concern about Native Americans attempting to stem the flow of incomers to their lands. Anderson couched the premier figure of this Frontier Stories cover illustration as a courageous female warrior in the trappings of both 1950s life and the period's fantasies of strong capable women. A bit like an imaginary Annie Oakley (1860–1926) sharpshooter, this powerful woman turns back toward the pursuing Native Americans.