Painting of a black-and-white tuxedo cat sitting on top of a book entitled "Cat" by John P. Falter, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, 1982.
Oil on canvas. Canvas is affixed to a Masonite board. Painting of a black and white cat lying on top of a black and white letterpress box. The head and front paws are facing front and the rest of the body is quarter turned to the right. The box has a label on the orange spine: "CAT // -sup -astrophe // -alogue -alectic // -arrh -acomb". Signed by artist on lower left. Unframed.
Falter was born in Plattsmouth and spent his youth in Falls City, graduating from Falls City High School in 1928. He studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and won a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. Much of Falter's work was illustrating magazin covers. He began a 25 year relationship with the Saturday Evening Post in 1944 and did 175 covers for the magazine, including several which featured Falls City. He served in the Navy in WWII, designing recruiting programs. As television eliminated many national magazines, Falter concentrated on book illustration and portrait painting. Many of his book illustrations were for Reader's Digest. He was one of thirty artists made academicians of the National Society of Western Art. One of his clients were Johnson and Johnson.[10645-49]
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