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Cardwell Higgins

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.

Season’s Greetings

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,250.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, illustration
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2022

A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”

Out Of The Earth You Came 

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.

Playthings of Eternity

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

This pen, ink, and gouache artwork is an early example by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins. A sublime offering in his art deco style, this shows a cityscape at night, with anonymous windows lit up throughout, menaced by a red bolt of lightning, suggesting the tremendous electric power humanity was trying to harness from nature in the early 20th century. 

The Furious Sky

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Great Depression
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2021

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).

The Loves of Carmen

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $2,000.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Cardwell Higgins, illustration, Pen & Ink, Silent film
Added to Gallery: January 7, 2019

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.

The 1927 Cadillac Convertible

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, art deco, automobilia, Cadillac, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, industrial age, jazz age, machine age
Added to Gallery: August 9, 2018

This pen and ink drawing with gouache highlights is an early work by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins and a sublime example of his art deco style.

American Industrialism

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, fine art, gouache, industrial age, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

This 1926 pastel by Cardwell Higgens was created for an exhibitor’s book produced by Paramount Pictures to promote their silent film star Florence Vidor.

Florence Vidor in Love the Magician

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Cardwell Higgins, flapper, Florence Vidor, hollywood, Lost Hollywood, Paramount Films, Silent film
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

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”.

Secret To A Lovely Figure

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, erotic, hawaiiana, lingerie, pin up
Added to Gallery: January 27, 2018

A signed original pastel on illustration board from the late 1930’s by the artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins of a modernist blonde showgirl.

Modern Girl Book Cover Girl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, original cover art, Original pastel, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2018

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