Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Reading Victorian Maiden with Kitten with Hamilton King This is a fabulous, dated 1901, large format pastel on tinted artist paper by the prolific American illustrator Hamilton King. In this portrait a bookish Victorian beauty in a large plumed hat catches up on her reading with a little kitten at her side. The pastel is […]
Artist: Hamilton King
Mystery and Style, the Work of Daniel Content Offered here is a vintage and original gouache on board illustration created by artist and illustrator Daniel Content. Dating to the 1940s, this comes from later in Content’s career as a creator of published works. He would, in the 1950s, transition from artist to art director. Filled […]
Artist: Daniel Content
In May of 1919, on the advice of Sam Kingston, general manager for Florence Ziegfeld, Alberto Vargas applied to be the in-house artist for the Ziegfeld Follies. The rest, as they say, was history. At only 24 Vargas had already established himself as a freelance illustrator of beautiful women, with a sophisticated style inspired by Raphael […]
Artist: Alberto Vargas
A dazzling 1920s – early 30s art deco illustration painting of a playfully posed young flapper girl in silk nightie and ermine trimmed silk robe, amusing her kitty as was often the scene. Work is stylistically mindful of Edward Eggleston and Gene Pressler who created similar fanciful colorful and ornamental images for calendar companies of the era. It is our belief that this too was a published calendar image. Signed lower right “Eyre”.
Artist: Eyre
A large whimsical 1963 Calendar commissioned gouache painting for The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company signed “Arnquist” a pseudonym which allowed Bill Layne (who was under contract with Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company) to also get paid for calendar works he created for the rival Saint Paul Minnesota competing calendar company. A printed tear sheet of the painting titled “Cat Nap” used as a calendar page March 1963 is included in the sale. This work features a xylophone and a band of mice as the central components as a snoozing cat gets his whiskers trimmed in blissful oblivion to the happenings. Nicely matted and framed and ready to enjoy.
Artist: Bill Layne
