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| Red Hot Border Battle |
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| Artist: | Sidney Riesenberg (Attr) |
| Date: | 1930s |
| Medium: | Oil on Canvas |
| Dimensions: | Sight Size 22" X 32" |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Original Use: | Cover Art for Western Themed Pulp Publication |
| Price: | $9500.00 |
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| Above: Full view of oil on stretched canvas painting |
A bright, bold and rare original surviving painting, created as pulp cover art for an unidentified 1930s Western magazine. Work is attributed to Sidney Riesenberg and stretcher bar on back features pencil notation with the artist's name and numerals for publication use. Riesenberg is perhaps best remembered for his patriotic WWI posters, and also gained fame as cover illustrator for many of the American slick magazines and pulps during the Golden age of Illustration. This is a fine original example of his work, with dramatic scene featuring a compelling border battle with the requisite damsel in distress, bound in restraints, being rescued by the square jawed cowboy.
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| Above: Detail |
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| Above: Verso view and artists name on back stretcher |
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| Above: Verso view |
Sidney Riesenberg, an accomplished landscape painter but best known as an illustrator, was born in Chicago in 1885. He received his formal education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he won several purchase prize awards.
By 1905, he moved to Yonkers, New York for his career and contributed illustrations to journals such as Harper's, Scribner's, Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post and produced many posters for the Marines and Liberty Loan campaigns. From 1905 to 1909, he made two trips to the West and often created western subjects such as book illustrations for, "With Whip and Spur," and "Pioneers All."
Throughout the 1930s and 40s he exhibited his easel work at the National Academy of Design, The New York Watercolor Club, the Allied Artists of America, The Yonkers Art Association, and the Rockport Art Association.
Riesenberg was often influenced by Impressionism and plein-air painting. Evidence of his background as an illustrator are seen in his paintings by his use of modern color theory, unique brushstrokes, and attention to structure and design.
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| Above: Nicely framed in newer gallery frame |
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