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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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1890s

Victorian Cover Art by Archie Gunn This is a large format and racy (for the times) Victorian cover illustration for the long-running weekly periodical Truth Magazine. Created by illustrator Archie Gunn, this appeared as the cover for the January 13, 1894 edition with a title of “How Those Girls Love One Another”. Two girlfriends are […]

How Those Girls Love One Another

Artist: Archie Gunn
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, Archie Gunn, Calendar, Cover Art, gouache, Norman Platnick, original illustration, Truth Magazine, victorian, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2020

A large and monumental allegorical oil on canvas by Charles Allan Winter featuring a dying Roman warrior being attended to by a firey haired maiden. Work is signed by the artist “Chas. Winter 1896 Paris” lower right, an early offering from this highly regarded vanguard artist. This was presumably created while Winter was studying at the Julianne Academie of Paris, this has a wonderful Pre-Raphaelite dramatic and impacting style. The grand scale of the painting adds to its evocative epic charm.

A Roman Tragedy

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  $10,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1890s, allegorical, american, art nouveau, arts & crafts, Charles Winter, classical, maiden, pre-raphaelite
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2018

This large and luminous original watercolor painting by the famous Belgian painter Frantz Charlet dates to the turn of the 20th centuty and features a serene pastoral mother and child figural scene. Charlet, a student of the Acadeémie de Bruxelles and l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, known for his portraiture, landscape and genre work. Along with a group of ten colleagues, Charlet founded Les XX in October 1883.

Tranquility

Artist: Frantz Charlet
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, 1900s, beaux arts, belle epoque, Frantz Charlet, french, pastoral
Added to Gallery: May 3, 2018

A large original pen & ink illustration by the important Belle Epoque era poster and book illustrator Louis Rhead. This likely was done for Harper’s or Century Magazine. A great large rendering in the Art Nouveau manner and a rare surviving original illustration work by the great New York based prolific and gifted illustrator and artist.

Art Nouveau Maiden in February

Artist: Louis Rhead
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, Louis Rhead, maiden, new york city, original illustration art, winter
Added to Gallery: December 4, 2017

A delicately rendered, romanticized art nouveau maiden posed with a cornucopia filled with a plentiful summer’s harvest. This original watercolor illustration painting was created by the New York illustrator, muralist and fine artist Will Hicok Low for the August 1899 cover of McClure’s Magazine – Midsummer Fiction Number. A copy of the magazine is included in the sale and the painting is handsomely framed and matted behind glass and ready to enjoy.

The McClure’s Maiden

Artist: Will Hicok Low
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, american, art nouveau, harvest, maiden, McClure's Magazine, new york city, romantic, Will Hicok Low
Added to Gallery: April 22, 2013

An important original oil painting by the German artist Paul Thumann titled “Psyche”. This groundbreaking erotic and risque winged fairy image was the artist’s most revered work. Thumann brought this painting to The United States in 1893 and sold the reproduction rights to “White Rock Table Water” for use in print ads and tin lithographic tip trays (a period example is included with sale). This was acquired by the prestigious Vose Gallery in Boston in 1913 and was framed at that time by them in a hand carved, signed and numbered Carrig-Rohane wide profile Arts & Crafts frame that like the painting is of museum quality.

Psyche

Artist: Paul Thumann
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, advertising, Carrig-Rohane, classical, fine art, nymph, Paul Thumann, The Golden Gallery, Vose Gallery
Added to Gallery: December 28, 2010

A large well preserved pencil signed copper plate etching by Stephen Parrish, the celebrated artist, etcher and father of beloved American Illustrator Maxfield Parrish. Featuring a New England harbor view with a lone fisherman standing on the pier. The presence of the figure is unusual for etchings by Parrish, whose harbor landscapes rarely featured images of people. This was framed in the 1920s and retains the original unopened backing paper and a verso label from “E & A Art Shop.” The etching is signed in pencil lower right in the margin and is in an fine state of preservation. A rich impression on Japan paper in excellent condition.

A Harbor Scene With Figure

Artist: Stephen Parrish
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1880s, 1890s, american, cruise ship, etching, harbor, landscape, ship, Stephen Parrish
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2009

A large, Victorian era, original watercolor on illustration board by frequent LIFE Magazine illustrator, Charles Howard Johnson. This was most likely an interior, 2-page, color plate illustration for Truth Magazine. A stylized Belle Epoque, old world gondola scene. Nicely framed in a large, period, gesso wood frame.

Victorian Moon

Artist: Charles Howard Johnson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, american, belle epoque, Charles Howard Johnson, fantasy, gondola, moon, seduction, Truth Magazine, victorian
Added to Gallery: May 4, 2009

A large ethereal and transcendent fantasy themed pastel by Frederick Stuart Church firmly planted in the then dominant Art Nouveau movement. Four angelic maidens emerge from graceful flowing lines conjured mid flight, the artwork highlights the artist’s soothing and decorative palette and imaginative sense of composition.

Four Celestial Angels

Artist: Frederick Stuart Church
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1880s, 1890s, american, angel, art nouveau, classical, fantasy, Frederick Stuart Church, landscape, maiden, spiritual
Added to Gallery: November 25, 2008

A large and fabulous original illustration painting by Eric Pape used in “The Fair God” by Lew Wallace as a bookplate (page 462, with the caption “She gave him the signal”).

Pape is best remembered as a prolific illustrator of children’s books and historical fantasies, as well as an artistic contributor to Scribner’s, Cosmopolitan, and Century Magazine. After opening his own illustration school in 1898, he taught N.C. Wyeth, whose style is influenced by Pape’s own.

She Gave Him The Signal

Artist: Eric Pape
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, american, art nouveau, Eric Pape, indian maiden, mexican, original interior illustration, victorian
Added to Gallery: October 6, 2008

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