Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
At the turn of the 20th century, publishers and calendar companies leveraged Industrial Revolution inventions to produce multi-color offset lithographs that were fast, affordable, and flat-out glorious to view. Illustrations were used as covers, interior vignette story board paintings and in long-running iconic advertising campaigns such as “Cream of Wheat,” which premiered a new illustration each month in The Saturday Evening Post.
From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces. Often released in parallel series including leather bound and a non-leather bound (leatherette), the books were handsomely bound and included illustrations from contemporary illustrators. American artist, […]
Artist: Herbert Tauss
Price: $850.00
From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as The Franklin Library of Mystery Masterpieces. Often released in parallel series including leather bound and a non-leather bound (leatherette), the books were handsomely bound and included illustrations from contemporary illustrators. American artist, […]
Artist: Herbert Tauss
Price: $850.00
This is an original men's magazine interior illustration of unknown usage, dating to the 1950s to 60s. The scene shows a dramatic alley fight, with one man falling to the ground, flashlight tumbling, after the other got the jump on him. A grisaille gouache on illustration board, this painting is very nicely framed and matted […]
Artist: American Artist
Price: $950.00
After watching the 1942 revival of Hedda Gabler, starring Katina Paxinou, Helen Morley, and Ralph Forbes, James Montgomery Flagg created this watercolor gag sketch, which gently roasts his friend Cecil Humphreys for his acting in the role of Judge Black. The 1892 Henrik Ibsen play is a deeply psychological look at the life of a […]
Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price: $1,350.00
James Montgomery Flagg's watercolor sketches were an endless source of amusement and cheer to his friends and colleagues. Here, the artist works to cheer up his friend Cecil Humpheys after the poor reviews of the 1942 revival of J.M. Barrie's play A Kiss for Cinderella in which he starred alongside Louise Rainer. Flagg depicts laughably […]
Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price: $1,350.00
Shortly after the Armistice of 1918 brought an end to World War I, an outbreak of violence within San Francisco's Chinatown attracted national attention, and raised awareness of the off-and-on gangland violence known as the Tong wars. As San Francisco became known as home to the largest Chinese population anywhere outside of Asia, fascination about […]
Artist: Pedro Llanuza
Price: $1,350.00
On offer is a large format interior magazine oil on canvas illustration that shows a refined couple in a not-so-refined moment, as a fashionable woman winds up to throw a high-end vase at the head of a man who appears to be her beau. Does he deserve it? We assume so, but since we have […]
Artist: Albert Jannset
Price: $2,500.00
A dark, brooding, and tremendously well rendered pastel by the well regarded Society Of Illustrator's Hall of Fame member Gary Kelley. This was created for the Franklin Library's 1980 edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's gothic novella The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Pastel has been nicely matted and framed under glass and […]
Artist: Gary Kelley
Price: $2,500.00
Original illustration painting by Paul Remmey for sale, for the Lutheran Church's 1955 Reformation Bulletin.
Artist: Paul Remmey
Price: $950.00
For sale is an original 1977 advertising painting by G. R. Cheesbrough created as an advertisement for Venture Travel agency in Minneapolis MN.
Artist: G.R. Cheesebrough
Price: $1,350.00
For sale is an original 1977 advertising painting by G. R. Cheesbrough created as an advertisement for Venture Travel agency in Minneapolis MN.
Artist: G.R. Cheesebrough
Price: $1,350.00
For sale is a Cardwell Higgins original advertising painting of silent film Hollywood stars Dolores del Rio & Don Alvarado in "The Loves of Carmen" (1927).
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $3,000.00
