This is a painting called "Dancing Class," an original oil-on-canvas created by American illustrator Stevan Dohanos (1907–1994), which served as the cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post on May 10, 1952.
The Saturday Evening Post magazine is a very good example of the state of American magazine illustration in the 20th century. When most people think of the Post, they probably only go so far as the sentimentality of the Norman Rockwell covers. In fact, their interior stories offered a wide range of themes from romance, to action and adventure. Some well known characters started there, like Earle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason, and movies were made from it’s stories, such as “The Sand Pebbles” or “The Guns of Navarone.”
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I have one. Works great.
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