George Hughes

Police brutality

“Expired Meter’’ (oil on board) by George Hughes (1907-1990), at the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport(c) 2020 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY

“Expired Meter’’ (oil on board) by George Hughes (1907-1990), at the National Museum of American Illustration, Newport

(c) 2020 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY

Mr. Hughes lived for the last part of his life in Arlington. Vt., between the Taconic Range and the southern Green Mountains, where one of his neighbors for some years was the far more famous illustrator Norman Rockwell, who eventually moved to Stockbridge, Mass., in the Berkshires.

Fog over the Battenkill River in West Arlington, Vt.

Fog over the Battenkill River in West Arlington, Vt.



A private audience

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"Theater Rehearsal With Maid'' (oil on canvas), by George Hughes. This appeared first on the cover of the Jan. 13, 1951 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

This image is copyrighted 2014 by The National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, R.I. Photo courtesy of Archives of American Illustrators Gallery, New York, N.Y.