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The Storyteller

Artist:Harrison Fisher
Date:1906
Medium:Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Dimensions:Sight Size 14 5/8" x 9 5/8" Framed 25 1/2" x 21 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Illustration Page 99 The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Price: $5,500.00
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Framed view, double matted
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Above: 1906 edition of book illustration is on page 99

A wonderful detailed original drawing by Harrison Fisher illustrating Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast, found on page 99 of Bobbs Merrill’s 1906 book, The Song of Hiawatha, an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This charcoal and pencil drawing depicts the Indian Chief storyteller specifically. Framed in a fumed oak arts and crafts aesthetic, wide quarter sawn frame, double matted and ready to hang in your home, office, art gallery or museum. The bookplate from the Hardcover book is included in the sale.

Fisher was a very prolific and wildly popular turn of the century Illustrator and the creator of the The Fisher Girl, a precursor to American Pin-Up.

Above: Detail of bookplate
Above: Bookplate with text
Verso view of illustration paper

The Storyteller

Artist: Harrison Fisher
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, american, Harrison Fisher, Hiawatha, native american, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: June 29, 2018

 

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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.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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