Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-06-01 / 6. szám

FRATERNITY

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LÁSZLÓ L. ESZENYI:

AMERICAN HUNGARIANS OF WHOM WE ARE PROUD

Art is a means of addressing humanity. It would naturally follow that the artist is himself an interpreter.

A dramatic example of rehat may be achieved by a single but spirited artist was the 1957 Christmas seal of the American Hungarian Federation. A piece of paper smaller than a square inch showing the Hungarian flag “relieved” from the sickle and hammer, a symbol of the ’56 revolution, expressed the opinion of the Free World more effectively than hundreds of speeches or articles.

It is hardly necessary here to review the story of this tribute to the Hungarian cause, and the repercussion the sending of thousands of these seals had upon the Communist usurping the government and its mighty overlord, the Soviet.

It is pertinent to tell, though, something of the man who designed this seal, who interpreted in art the Hungarian love of freedom, and who in himself personifies the contribution made to the country of their adoption by those of Hungarian blood.

★ ★ ★

STEVAN DOHANOS Fine and Commercial Artist

Stevan Dohanos was born in Lorain, Ohio, on May 18, 1907. Even while still at school he demonstrated his ambition by taking on part time jobs. At the age of sixteen he left school and became, in succession, a truck driver for a florist, a carpenter’s apprentice and a railway clerk. During the latter job he discovered his talent, and took a mail order course in art. His interest stimulated, he enrolled at the age of nineteen in the evening classes at the Cleveland School of Art, and worked so well that a job as an apprentice in an art studio was offered him.

Today Steven Dohanos is a nationally know illustrator and magazine cover artist. His work which has appeared in the Saturday Evening Post has made him nationally famous.

But he has not been content with his work in the Commercial