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1980s

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Pigeon Feathers This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. A richly colored, dreamlike image that plays with light and dark, it features a boy standing in a dark barn with sunlight streaming in through slats in the wooden walls. The boy looks up as a trio of […]

Pigeon Feathers

Artist: Bob Dacey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 16, 2022

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. This is a richly colored piece done entirely in neutral tones. It features two Black women dressed in white in the forefront who are seen tending to a goat, and two […]

Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car

Artist: Bob Dacey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 16, 2022

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from You’ll Never Know, Dear This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. It is a dreamlike portrait with rich, brown tones and soft brush strokes. It features two young men at a carnival game with a wheel spinning in a blur in front of them as it takes […]

You’ll Never Know, Dear

Artist: Bob Dacey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 16, 2022

LIFEGUARD - an original watercolor illustration by Bob Dacey

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Lifeguard This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. It is a dreamlike piece that captures the summer haze of hot days at the beach. It features a lifeguard, hunched forward, eyes on the water, as he keenly observes the beachgoers. Dacey was commissioned to create this piece […]

Lifeguard

Artist: Bob Dacey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, Pigeon Feathers And Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: August 16, 2022

Cropped view of watercolor painting by Bob Dacey showing a young high school girl in conversation with a boy

Original illustration by Bob Dacey from A Sense of Shelter This is an original watercolor illustration by Bob Dacey. A captivating piece, it captures the emotion of two high school students in the middle of a conversation about their feelings for each other. This is a tender and youthfully nostalgic piece that was used to […]

A Sense of Shelter

Artist: Bob Dacey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Bob Dacey, bookplate illustration, Franklin Library, John Updike, original interior illustration, Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: September 22, 2020

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”The Sound and the Fury – April Eighth, 1928″ amount=”650.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This pen & ink on artist’s paper is broken into two segments (as were all of the illustrations created for this publication) and were printed across two pages with the empty space in between being used to […]

The Sound and the Fury – April Eighth, 1928

Artist: Steven Stroud

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1980s, Franklin Library, original interior illustration, Pen & Ink, steven stroud
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2019

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”The Sound and the Fury Pt II” amount=”650.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This pen & ink on artist’s paper depicts a man in a suit running down a waterfront street. He appears hurried and panicked. A young girl is seen despondently standing in the background. The illustration is broken into two […]

The Sound and the Fury – Pt II

Artist: Steven Stroud

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1980s, Franklin Library, original interior illustration, Pen & Ink, steven stroud
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2019

  From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. 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 and illustrator Steven […]

The Franklin Library: The Sound and the Fury – Frontispiece

Artist: Steven Stroud

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Franklin Library, original interior illustration, Pen & Ink, steven stroud
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2019

  From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. 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 and […]

The Sound and the Fury

Artist: Steven Stroud

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1980s, Franklin Library, original interior illustration, Pen & Ink, steven stroud
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2019

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Pt I” amount=”850.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”]   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 […]

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Pt I

Artist: Herbert Tauss

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1980s, Franklin Library, gouache, herbert tauss, ink, oil painting, original interior illustration, spy fiction, spy novel, tinker tailor soldier spy
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2019

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