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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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Illustration & Advertising Art

At the turn of the 20th century, Industrial Revolution inventions brought technological advancements to printmaking that ushered in a Golden Age of American illustration. Publishers and calendar companies developed new techniques for producing multi-color offset lithographs that were fast, affordable, and flat-out glorious to view, blurring the distinction between fine art and "art for commerce." The best examples by the finest commercial illustrators were revered by the public, and today are beloved by collectors.

Post-War Romance and Intrigue This well-rendered gouache illustration by artist and illustrator Wesley Snyder features a bubbly blonde sweetheart in a white tennis skirt and a pink sweater emblazoned with the nickname “killer.” Fresh from the tennis court she stops in a palatial front hall to have a flirtatious word and knowing glance with a […]

Come Be My Love

Artist: Wesley Snyder
Price:  $1,975.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, gouache, interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post, Wesley Snyder
Added to Gallery: June 20, 2022

Portrait of Queen Zenobia This is an original 1960 oil on canvas painting signed and dated by the obscure artist Henry Abraham. Titled “Zenobia”, we believe this to have been a published illustration likley for a paperback book cover, though we have yet to uncover its exact usage. Zenobia was a warrior queen of the […]

Zenobia

Artist: Henry Abraham
Price:  $1,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1960s, Henry Abraham, nude, oil painting
Added to Gallery: January 27, 2021

Gouache illustration by Edwin Georgi created for The Saturday Evening Post

A glamorous encounter from illustrator Edwin Georgi Offered here is a lovely and glamorous gouache on illustration board painting by American artist and illustrator Edwin Georgi. A dramatic piece created in cool tones, it shows a young glamorously dressed woman in a sequined spaghetti strap dress gripping the knob of a door as an older […]

Girl from the Mimosa Club, Part II

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  $4,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Edwin Georgi, gouache, interior illustration, magazine illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: January 18, 2021

Flowers of the Field by Haskell Coffin This is a lovely, published calendar girl pastel illustration by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. This shows a demure, doe-eyed, delicate brunette beauty with a posey of freshly picked daisies. The illustration was published by The Osborne Calendar Company with the title, “Flowers of the […]

Flowers of the Field

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Calendar, Haskell Coffin, Norman Platnick, Osborne Calendar Co, pastel
Added to Gallery: September 21, 2020

The Underwood American Girl Calendar – The Girl of the East This large Clarence Underwood gouache painting appeared as the first page in the 1909 Underwood American Girl Calendar with the title The Girl Of The East. The calendar was published by The Frederick A. Stokes Company. The image features a handsome young dapper gent […]

The Girl of the East

Artist: Clarence F. Underwood
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, Calendar, Clarence F. Underwood, Edwardian, gouache, Norman Platnick
Added to Gallery: September 21, 2020

Parisian Victorian Maiden by Hamilton King This is a fabulous, turn of-the-last-century, large pastel on tinted artist’s paper by the prolific American illustrator Hamilton King. In this portrait a Parisian Victorian beauty in a large plumed hat stylishly traverses through a windy Paris winter day. The pastel is nicely matted and framed under glass and […]

Parisian Victorian Maiden

Artist: Hamilton King
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, Edwardian, french, Hamilton King, Norman Platnick, paris, pastel, victorian
Added to Gallery: September 9, 2020

J. Knowles Hare original advertising pastel for Sunshine Biscuits This large and enchanting pastel was created by the American illustrator J. Knowles Hare as advertising calendar art for Sunshine Biscuits. This New York bakery marketed calendar girl calendars in the early 1900s under the name “The Sunshine Girl”. This example was titled “Autumn”, an original […]

The Sunshine Girl – Autumn

Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, Equestrian, J. Knowles Hare, Norman Platnick, pastel, Sunshine Biscuits
Added to Gallery: September 9, 2020

Original Steven Stroud illustration from them This is a mixed media watercolor and pen & ink on illustration board by Steven Stroud. A sketchily composed illustration, it depicts a chaotic family dinner as the parents engage in a screaming match while the children look away and cover their ears. This illustration appears as a double […]

them – Part I – Children of Silence

Artist: Steven Stroud
Price:  $550.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1970s, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Joyce Carol Oates, Pen & Ink, steven stroud, Them, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 24, 2020

Original Steven Stroud illustration from them This is a mixed media watercolor and pen & ink on illustration board by Steven Stroud. A sketchily composed illustration, it depicts a frightened child in her bed while a man and woman look in on her from the doorway. This illustration appears as a double page bookplate in […]

them – Part II – To Whose Country Have I Come?

Artist: Steven Stroud
Price:  $550.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1970s, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Joyce Carol Oates, Pen & Ink, steven stroud, Them, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 24, 2020

Original Steven Stroud illustration from them This is a mixed media watercolor and pen & ink on illustration board by Steven Stroud. A sketchily composed illustration, it depicts an urban setting with high rise buildings dotted with laundry hanging on lines. There are figures on one of the building’s rooftops, all looking forlorn and lost […]

them – Title Page

Artist: Steven Stroud
Price:  $550.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1970s, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Joyce Carol Oates, Pen & Ink, steven stroud, Them, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 24, 2020

Love’s Young Dream by Carle J. Blenner This is a soft, moody, and evocative pastel by the well-listed and prolific illustrator Carle J. Blenner. This features a lovely Edwardian maiden in a loose fitting pink dress with a plunging neckline that reveals a tantalizing view of her bust line. This pastel was published as a […]

Love’s Young Dream

Artist: Carle J. Blenner
Price:  $3,250.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, Carle J. Blenner, Edwardian, Norman Platnick, pastel, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 26, 2020

Original Art by Gene Pressler This beautifully well-preserved pastel painting is by American artist and illustrator Gene Pressler. With a rich color palette and Pressler’s signature glow, this pastel features a rosy-cheeked blue eyed stylish Edwardian in attire lass. We assume this was created sometime in the 1910s as magazine cover art but thus far […]

A Blue Eyed Lass

Artist: Gene Pressler
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, art nouveau, Calendar, Edwardian, Gene Pressler, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, Norman Platnick, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 10, 2020

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