Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Original Illustration from House Made of Dawn, by Bart Forbes This original watercolor illustration by Bart Forbes is a surreal triptych of a Native American man seen in profile, running, with the head of a horse and a bull behind his legs in the bottom panel. This beautifully rendered painting was featured as an interior […]
Artist: Bart Forbes
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Artist: Steven Stroud
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Artist: Steven Stroud
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Artist: Steven Stroud
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Artist: Steven Stroud
Original watercolor illustration published as the frontispiece for N. Scott Momaday’s novel “The House Made of Dawn” (1977, The Franklin Library).
Artist: Bart Forbes
American painter and illustrator Bart Forbes (b. 1939) was specially commissioned to create a series of interior illustrations for The Franklin Library’s 1977 publication of the novel House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday.
The novel is widely credited as leading the way for the breakthrough of Native American literature into the mainstream. It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1969 and has also been noted for its significance in Native American anthropology.
Artist: Bart Forbes
This minimalist yet evocative watercolor painting shows three men standing together against a blue sky while a horse grazes in the foreground. This illustration appears as a full-page bookplate on page 132 of Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington. From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain […]
Artist: Bart Forbes
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Artist: David Palladini
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Artist: David Palladini
