Mel Crawford: John Steinbeck

Artist: Mel Crawford
1925 -
Nationality: Canadian
Artwork Year: 1979
Image Size: 18.375 by 20.625 inches
Overall Size: 21.875 by 24.25 inches
Medium: Mixed Media on Cold Press Illustration Board

Although John Steinbeck attended Stanford University intermittently, the majority of his youth was spent in the fields of the small farming community of Salinas, California. There, he studied the weathered faces and blistered hands of the migrant laborers who tilled the soil. He watched them as they worked and as they walked. He listened to their voices and to their stories. Steinbeck's observations lent an authenticity to his work that no classroom course in the art of writing could have inspired, and his popularity with the people was enormous. The Grapes of Wrath, his post-depression best seller, won him the 1940 Pulitzer Prize. In this epic novel, Steinbeck told the universal story of the search for human dignity. He concentrated his lyrical gaze on one downtrodden family, and with the sparks of their bitterness, he built a fiery compassion in the hearts of countless readers. Both Steinbeck's subject matter and approach were foreign to the literature of his time, and he became known as the master of the "Great Angry Book." In 1962, after adding The Winter of Our Discontent and countless other works to his credit, John Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His contributions to American fiction can be seen not only in the excellent stories that he wrote, but also in those that he inspired in other American writers.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the United States 15¢ John Steinbeck stamp issued February 27, 1979.

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