"Be-lieve Me!" J. Knowles Hare - Illustrator, Artist

"Be-lieve me!"

J. Knowles Hare

Don't you love vintage prints? My parents were collectors of everything. Now and then, something may fall out of an old book, perhaps used to mark a place. I love those delightful surprises. This was especially sweet to me. I'd never heard of the artist, so I "Googled" him. Here is what I found out about J. Knowles Hare.

Known for his drypoint etching portraits and his magazine cover illustrations, John Knowles Hare was born in Montclair, New Jersey. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York. In the early 1900s he had many magazine covers, and he also did drypoint etchings, one of the more famous being "Sympathy."

He was a frequent contributor of saccharine portraits of 1920s-type young women for the covers of "The Saturday Evening Post" and "The Country Gentleman" magazines.


Source:
Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art"
Andrea Bennett, great niece of the artist
http://www.curtispublishing.com/other-artists/html/Hare.html

If you know anything else about him, please let me know. This print has the appearance of coming from an old calendar perhaps. Hope it brightened your day just a wee bit. Be-lieve me ... I do!