Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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 […]
Artist: Clarence F. Underwood
Price: $3,500.00
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 […]
Artist: Hamilton King
Price: $3,500.00
Edwardian Equestrian Scene by Henry Hutt This is a large format, published gouache painting on illustration board by the prolific American illustrator Henry Hutt. This painting appeared in print version with the title “Thoroughbreds”, and was published in 1904 by Harper And Brothers; a vintage print is included in the sale. In this depiction, an […]
Artist: Henry Hutt
Price: $2,850.00
An Edwardian Beauty by Noted Female Figure Illustrator C. Allan Gilbert This is a handsome, vintage and original gouache on illustration board painting by American illustrator Charles Allan Gilbert. This early 20th century portrait features a lovely Edwardian woman in stylish brown riding attire holding a riding crop in her lap. A bouquet of roses […]
Artist: Charles Allan Gilbert
Price: Sold
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 […]
Artist: Carle J. Blenner
Price: $3,375.00
The Underwood American Girl Calendar – The Girl of the West This large Clarence Underwood gouache painting appeared as the first page in the 1908 Underwood American Girl Calendar with the title “The Girl Of The West“. The calendar was published by The Frederick A. Stokes Company. The image features a handsome young enlisted soldier […]
Artist: Clarence F. Underwood
Price: $3,500.00
A whimsical turn of the last century illustration, this watercolor and gouache painting by John Frederick (Fred) Nankivel is a delightful piece of childhood fantasy. With soft, neutral tones that capture the ethereal play of sunlight pressing through the water’s surface, it is a beautiful contrast to the murky underwater environment. Two young […]
Artist: Fred Nankivel
Price: Sold
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. The complete book in which this appeared is included with the sale. 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.
Artist: Harrison Fisher
Price: $5,500.00
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.
Artist: Frantz Charlet
Price: $4,500.00
An early and exceptional painting by New York artist and illustrator Malcolm Strauss who specialized in motor genre works creating Automobile Club posters.
Artist: Malcolm Strauss
Price: $4,500.00
