Collections record Beta

Gouache Painting - "Katydid"

1973-19-9

Gouache done in autumnal colors. Rust colors at the left and moving towards the right becoming mixed with pink and cream or ivory. Done in strokes to resemble field grass. Figure in brown lines in the foreground - background done in ivory and pink flares. Backed with cardboard. Framed under glass.

After graduating from Yale, Robert Osborn studied painting in Rome and Paris before returning to Connecticut to teach art and philosophy at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville. He developed his distinct illustration style while drawing Navy training manuals during World War II, most of which featured a character named Dilbert whose blunders illustrated improper safety procedures. After the war, Osborn’s satirical cartoons appeared regularly in magazines such as The New Republic, Life, and Esquire. He also wrote and illustrated books on topics ranging from fishing and hunting to war and social issues. Between 1947 and 1994, illustrator Robert Chesley Osborn lived with his wife in Salisbury, Connecticut. Among his close friends were Rufus and Leslie Stillman of Litchfield.

• Osborn, Robert Chesley, 1904-1994

ca. 1960

frame 35 1/2" x 28" work 29 1/2" x 22"

• gouache
• paper