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Tea in the Afternoon

Artist:Charles Edward Chambers
Date:1920s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 21 1/2" x 30 1/2" Framed 31" x 40"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Interior Magazine Illustration
Price: Sold
Full view of oil painting
Full view of oil painting
Framed view
Framed view

This large and luminous oil on canvas by Charles E. Chambers was created most likely as an interior story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Though the piece is unsigned, it contains all of the characteristics of Chambers work, and is undoubtedly an example of his glossy magazine socialites. Dating to about 1930, the scene features a number of refined jazz age beauties in modest yet flapper inspired apparel enjoying a garden teatime with a dapper suitor. Nicely framed and in a fine state of conservation on original pine stretchers.

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Verso view of original pine stretchers and old canvas
Verso view of original pine stretchers and old canvas

A brief look at Charles Chambers, courtesy of ‘Who Was Who in American Art,’ the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

Birth place: Ottumwa, IA

Addresses: Chicago area; Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY; NYC

Profession: Painter, illustrator

Studied: AIC; ASL with Geo. Bridgman

Exhibited: AIC, 1908; SC, 1918 (prize); NAD, 1931 (2nd Altman prize).

Member: SI, 1912; C. 1915; Artists Guild (pres.); Allied AA; SI.

Comments: Best known for his magazine illustrations and covers, plus a series of portraits of musicians for Steinway Piano Co., and a series of forty-five billboard displays for Chesterfield cigarettes.

Tea in the Afternoon

Artist: Charles Edward Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Charles Edward Chambers, flapper, high society, jazz age, original interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2011

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

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