July 21, 1947 – Emmett Kelly portrait on the cover of Life Magazine? Music by Murray Mclauchlan!
Originally Posted at Me,Myself, Music and Mysteries….
One of the events that was listed yesterday, on This Day in History was that on July 21, 1947, Loren MacIver’s portrait of Emmett Kelly as Willie the Clown appeared on the cover of Life magazine. This sent my mind off in several directions. My first thought was that I didn’t know which portrait of Emmett Kelly this was, as I have seen a few over the years. So I headed to Google and searched for the portrait….I found this 1947 Emmett Kelly painting by Loren MacIver at Kenyon College’s Digital Kenyon. But what I didn’t find was a cover from LIFE magazine….
