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Laurence Herndon Colts'a Blazing" Oil On Canvas

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Laurence Herndon Colts'a Blazing  Oil On Canvas
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Laurence J. Herndon 1880 – 1961 “Colts’a Blazing” 1928 Pulp Western Magazine Front Cover. 29 x 29 oil on canvas. Signed lower left and verso. Lawrence Jesse Herndon was born December 25, 1880 in Carey, Ohio. The Herndon family operated a grocery store at 337 North Market Street in Galion, Ohio. In 1902, Laurence left home to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. By his senior year he was off-setting the cost of tuition by working as an instructor at the school. By 1908, he had completed his training and painted for awhile in Chicago. In 1910, he married eighteen-year-old Mary Louise Custis and they moved to New York City to find work in the busy publishing industry. They lived at 1947 Broadway at West 66th Street, which also served as his art studio. He sold illustrations to slick magazines, such as Cosmopolitan and Everybody's. These were signed with his preferred spelling of his name, "J. Laurence Herndon." From 1918 until 1938, he painted pulp magazine covers for Argosy, Blue Book, Complete Stories, Over The Top, Sea Stories, The Popular, Top-Notch, War Birds, and Western Story. He is best known for his Blue Book covers of the prolific American author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan stories in the early 1930s. In 1934, he began to teach illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women at 160 Lexington Avenue, which is a fanciful four-story limestone temple that combines elements of both Modern and Greek design. In 1944, the school changed its name to The New York Phoenix School of Design. He continued to teach at that school for the rest of his life. In 1955, a fire in his studio destroyed most of his paintings. Laurence Herndon died at the age of 80 in Mountainside Hospital of Montclair, NJ, on November 12, 1961.