The Happy Rower, Scribner’s Magazine (1906) - J.C. Leyendecker Art Print
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Before newsreels owned the sports page, J.C. Leyendecker owned the oarsman. The Happy Rower came off the press in 1906 as a Scribner's Magazine poster, a Progressive Era love letter to the Ivy League varsity eight. The athlete sits off the clock. Knees high. Wrists loose. Coral pink knuckles fold over a sweep oar gone slack.
Leyendecker lets the hull collapse into pale ribs around cotton athletic socks. The footstretcher cracks open. A black swivel oarlock pins the corner like a paperweight. Rust red piping edges his shorts. Sage green streaks slant behind his cropped gold hair. Call it Charles River mist outside the Newell Boathouse, rendered in brushwork.
Saturday Evening Post readers would soon know this square jaw by heart. The American illustrator sold that male beauty ideal on magazine covers for four decades. His Art Nouveau monogram curls in the lower left beside tumbling flecks of paint. Pin this vintage rowing wall art above your desk. Let the Harvard crimson keep score.
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