Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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 1900's under the name "The Sunshine Girl". This example was titled "Spring", an original […]
Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price: $3,950.00
Antique, Art Deco-era, flapper girl store display statuette mannequin from the 1920s styled after the work of Maurice Milliere.
Artist: After Maurice Milliere
Price: $1,950.00
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
Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $15,000.00 $11,000.00
Offered here is an original piece of camera ready artwork--pen and ink with collage elements--created for billboard advertising usage during World War II.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $3,750.00
A decorative and extreme Art Deco/Machine Age pen and ink advertising drawing by Cardwell Higgins for the 1927 Cadillac Convertible. Work is signed and dated lower right and beautifully framed and matted behind glass; from the estate of Charles Martignette. Higgins was an accomplished draftsman and had a keen eye for design and graphics as seen in this smartly rendered work.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,350.00
A 1942 original pastel on board by Cardwell Higgins created for an advertising display sign for "Adola Brassieres". Higgins executed a series of these images all with erotically charged pin-up girl style and often times set in Hawaii as in this example. This is the only known surviving pastel from this campaign, the text on the die-cut display created from the artwork read "The Secret To a Lovely Figure".
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $4,500.00
Another fine original artwork from the storied Cream of Wheat advertising archives. An original watercolor on illustration board by B. Cory Kilvert titled Lest We Forget. This large and decidedly quaint image borrows from The American Arts & Crafts aesthetic which was firmly rooted into American culture in 1907, when this image first saw light as a full page magazine ad in hundreds of popular publications such as The Saturday Evening Post. Responding to fussy, over ornamented Victorian tastes, the Arts & Crafts movement artists evoked scenes of Dutch mills and serene pastoral views presented in contrast to modern industrialization. This unique and delightful hearth and home image from this iconic advertising campaign is surely one of the most enduring images from this long running series.
Artist: B. Cory Kilvert
Price: $7,500.00
A bright, crisp, art deco oil on canvas, featuring a stylish flapper mother in cloche hat and her children marveling at Rastus, the iconic Cream of Wheat chef, who is winking at modernism by pointing to the picture within the picture. A very rare surviving work which is attributed to Enoch Bolles, who worked for many years creating similar streetcar advertisements for Vicks Vaporub, Squibb's Dental Cream and Uneeda Biscuits.
Artist: Enoch Bolles (attributed)
Price: $6,500.00
