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: Sold
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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: Sold
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
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,500.00
A finely executed dated 1927 pen & ink illustration on board by Cardwell Higgins with inventive art deco style. A Persian attired Orientalist showgirl is depicted in a burlesque vaudeville-era Ziegfeld Follies inspired theatrical production. The work recalls the erotic and stylized pen & ink works of British artist Aubrey Beardsley.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: Sold
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
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $6,500.00
This originalartowrk by Cardwell Higgins shows a beautiful brunette pin up showgirl which appeared onthe May, 1937 issue of Modern Girl Book Magazine.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $5,500.00
Inspired by the work of Harry Clarke, this art deco nude avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins was titled by the artist "The Elements Involved".
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
Restaurant Mayan This large Mayan themed stylized gouache illustration on board was created by Cardwell Higgins as a menu design and brochure cover for Rockefeller Center's innovative Restaurant Mayan, 16 West 51st. Street, New York. A brochure printed for the opening of the restaurant which shows Higgins at work painting mural panels for the fabulous […]
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $3,500.00
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