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THBMcClelland Barclay (American, 1891-1943) Swimmers Painting
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LiveApr 30, 2023
Fine Art Auction - 35th Anniversary Myers Antiques auctions@myersfineart.com
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McClelland Barclay (American, 1891-1943) Painting. Title - Frolicking in the Waves. Oil on canvas painting. Signed, McClelland Barclay, lower right. The two Barclay paintings in this auction have never been offered for sale. They were gifted directly by the artist to his good friend and owner of a New York City bar Barclay frequented. The woman in the painting bears a striking resemblance to Virginia Moore, a 22-year old model whom Barclay often painted and became engaged to in 1937. The Acme News Picture photo (from Feb. 1937), is of Barclay with model and fiancee Virginia Moore. Painting measures 24.5 inches high, 34.5 inches wide. Frame measures 29 inches high, 40 inches wide. In good condition.
McClelland Barclay was born in 1891, in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, moving to New York City in 1912, in order to make his way in the art world and to study at the Art Students League. He quickly became known about New York as a colorful character and according to Life magazine was talented and seen all around the town. Tom Fogarty and George Bridgeman were his most influential teachers at the Art Students League and encouraged him to go directly into illustration since he needed income having refused help from his prominent family in St. Louis. Barclay simply wanted to make it on his own.
After a single year of study he garnered several important commissions and his work was soon gracing the covers of several national publications. One commission led to another and his career was launched. During the 1920's and 30's, McClelland Barclay's images were selected for use by art directors for the nation's most popular periodicals: Colliers, Country Gentleman, Redbook, Pictorial Review, Coronet, Country Life, Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, and a host of movie magazines. In 1930, the General Motors Company selected Barclay's Fisher Body Girl for a series of advertisements, and she quickly became as popular as The Gibson Girl and The Christy Girl. He used his wife, just 19 years old, as the model for the iconic Fisher Auto Body image. She later appeared in magazine advertisements and was so well published and plastered across the country on billboards, that she was recognized wherever she went. He also painted advertisements for A and P, Eaton Paper, Elgin Watches, Humming Bird Hosiery, and Lever Brothers, among others.
In the late 1930's, Barclay set up a small company to reproduce jewelry and utilitarian figures for ashtrays, bookends, desk sets, and other articles for home and office use. These products were each fabricated out of cast grey metal with a thick bronze plate finish and they retailed for just a few dollars. He appropriately, if unimaginatively, named the company the McClelland Barclay Art Products Corporation. Although one can still find these Barclay products in flea markets, they never brought the artist/illustrator very much income. In some ways, this undertaking reminds one of Maxfield Parrish's notion of a businessman with a brush, as Barclay tried to emulate Parrish. Whereas Parrish licensed his images for a one-time use only, McClelland Barclay did not license, but rather was his own client and the product designer.
McClelland Barclay got into movie poster illustrations and became known as one of two artists who first painted Betty Grable, the most famous of all the WWII pin-up girls. He painted movie posters for Paramount Pictures and Twentieth-Century Fox and was well known in Hollywood during the late 1930's and early 1940's for his portraits of beautiful starlets, just prior to his enlistment in the service.
After enlisting, his posters and camouflage designs for the armed forces earned him a Naval commission for which he was quite proud. Unfortunately, Lt. Commander McClelland Barclay was reported missing in action in the Solomon Islands, when the LST he was on was torpedoed by the Japanese Navy McClelland Barclay (1891 - 18 July 1943)
During the 1930s, he began painting movie poster art for Hollywood studios, including Paramount Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox. Barclay was considered a superstar in the film industry during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Barclay was one of the first artists to paint World War II pin-up girl, Betty Grable. He also illustrated advertisements for Whitman's Chocolates, Texaco, and Camel and Chesterfield brand cigarettes. Because Barclay was known for his illustrations of "striking women", he earned a judging position at the Miss America 1935 pageant. His posters and camouflage designs earned him Naval commission. Barclay was a member of the Art Students League, the Chicago Art Club, the Society of Illustrators, the Association of Arts and Industries, and the Artists Guild.Condition
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