Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A skillfully executed interior illustration for a serialized story by Pearl S. Buck titled China Gold which ran in Collier's Magazine from February 7-April 18, 1942. Caption reads: " Father Valerian came out from the chapel at once and led the wounded men to the hospital ". A large crisply-rendered oil on canvas mounted on board. Martha Sawyers artwork is in the Frank Gehry-designed Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis.
Artist: Martha Sawyers
Price: $2,800.00
This Orson Lowell scene of a flapper couple ice yachting with the unexpected help of a pierrot deckhand was presumably created as a cover painting for Collier's magazine.
Artist: Orson Lowell
Price: $13,500.00
A large original watercolor illustration by the prolific important American illustrator C. C. Beall. A dramatic scene of unknown usage of a fight on deck a sailing ship on the high seas.
Artist: C. C. Beall
Price: $1,950.00
From the estate of legendary jazz-age Ziegfeld Follies photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston comes this sensational pastel by noted American illustrator Penrhyn Stanlaws. Inscribed "To Cheney from Penrhyn Stanlaws", this is a fabulous offering it features a stylish 1920s flapper girl in a cloche hat admiring her abundant beauty in a compact mirror. This was created as the cover for the October 4, 1924 issue of Collier's magazine, and later inscribed and gifted to Johnston.
Artist: Penrhyn Stanlaws
Price: SOLD !!
A large scale and evocative interior story illustration by Herbert Morton Stoops; likely commissioned for Collier's or Cosmopolitan magazine, both of for which the artist was a frequent contributor. A briskly composed hearth scene with broad brush strokes that ultimately creates a wonderful sense of urgency and movement. Stoops painted in a style much like Dean Cornwell and Howard Pyle, the artist has a high water mark at auction of just under $11,000.00 in 2001.
Artist: Herbert Stoops
Price: S O L D
A large, masterfully rendered, noir dramatic interior illustration of a startled beauty by Cecil Calvert Beall. From the illustrated serialization of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, published by Collier's Magazine, June 12, 1948. Artwork is beautifully framed in a period gold gesso ornate frame. Story caption reads : "Camille lay on a heap of coarse canvas piled up in a corner of what seemed to be a large warehouse. There was a smell of dampness and decay in the air."
Artist: C. C. Beall
Price: S O L D
This set of two pendant oil paintings is unusual within Wenzell's oervre, both for its classical mythological subject and explicit eroticism. These two paintings were clearly conceived as a matched set; they present a "before" and "after" narrative. The first panel was published as a vignette in the March 26th, 1910 issue of Collier's magazine but we don't believe that the second work was created for publication. This pair was displayed in the Wenzell's 1967 Maxwell Gallery (San Francisco) exhibition, "The Age of Elegance." An illustrated program is included with sale.
Artist: Albert Wenzell
Price: S O L D
A large, masterfully rendered, noir dramatic interior illustration by Cecil Calvert Beall. From the illustrated serialization of Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu, published by Collier's Magazine in 1948. Comes with a copy of the published magazine, artwork is beautifully framed in a period gold gesso ornate frame. Story caption reads "In a dazzling, crackling flash, Nayland Smith saw a lump of solid steel not melt, but disentigrate, vanish! A pinch of gray powder alone remained."
Artist: C. C. Beall
Price: Sold
A wonderfully executed interior illustration for a story by Eustace Cockrell titled Compliments of R. Smith. Depicting a Christmas gift given to the gentleman center in the form of a race horse. Caption reads: "He won de second at Sunnyside Downs," Refugee said " Merry Christmas, Mr. Willie ". A large crisply-rendered pastel nicely framed and matted in it's original gesso frame. Retains original Collier's Magazine verso identification label and a full copy of the published magazine is included in the sale.
Artist: Martha Sawyers
Price: S O L D
A large and spectacular example of Sawyers' illustrative mastery in specializing in ethnic-based exotic and often at times Far Eastern-inspired action/drama renderings. This image is reproduced in The Illustrator in America by Roger Reed on page 224. Pastel is nicely framed and matted and a complete edition of the Collier's magazine in which the piece appeared, is included with the sale.
Artist: Martha Sawyers
Price: Sold
