Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A Metropolitan Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows demure sad eyed flapper girl in a floating head styled popularized by Rolf Armstrong. Pastel was created as the cover for the May, 1920 edition of Metropolitan Magazine. Pastel […]
Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price: $3,500.00
A Flapper Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely, masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows a stylized blue eyed flapper girl dressed for an evening on the town with a beaded roaring twenties dress and a jade green wrap and necklace. This pastel was […]
Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price: $3,850.00
A fun whimsical expertly rendered baseball themed illustration oil on canvas painting by E.M. Jackson. In this fresh to the market work, a baseball umpire is pelted with a tomato after making the "You're out..." sign. Our gallery loves this illustrator, this is from the 1920s or early 1930s and was likely a magazine cover […]
Artist: E.M. Jackson
Price: $4,500.00
An Edwardian Calendar Girl This is a large format, published watercolor and gouache painting on illustration board by the prolific American illustrator Henry Hutt. This painting appeared as the January 1907 page of "The Henry Hutt Calendar". In this portrait a cinched waist Edwardian beauty delights the eye with a cane and masquerade mask held […]
Artist: Henry Hutt
Price: $2,850.00
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
Redbook Cover by Haskell Coffin This romantic and dreamy pastel by the important pretty girl illustrator Haskell Coffin appeared as the cover of the July 1923 edition of Redbook magazine. In the 1920s, Redbook was one of the premiere fiction magazines in the country, with stories by authors ranging from Jack London to Edith Wharton. […]
Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price: $5,500.00
Enchantment: an original oil on canvas by Edward Eggleston Enchantment is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works Calendar Company in the early 1930s. The subject of this playful scene is a nude water nymph bending over to kiss a little frog (sure to soon become […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: $35,000.00
Edward Eggleston's Evening Star Evening Star is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company in 1929. The image shows a towering seated contemplative Indian Princess captured in a Maxfield Parrish-like surrealist and pleasing yet electric color scheme. In 1931, Maxfield Parrish famously declared "I […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: $35,000.00
Earl Moran created this iconic published pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow's 1946 calendar line. It was published with the title "The Doctor Said I Needed Glasses". The image shows a pretty blonde, enjoying a libation in a cordial glass, her inviting smile and legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a […]
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $21,000.00
This rare, original mixed medium painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the February 15, 1942 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Spanish Mission inspired image was from a series entitled "Maid In America." The image on the […]
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: $13,500.00
