Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This vintage illustration features a disheveled Jimmy Stewart type in rumpled raincoat and hat, being side-eyed with disdain. The other fellow appears to be wearing last night's tuxedo, if the stack of pancakes is any indication. Since we have yet identified the use or artist of this piece, we can't do more than speculate on […]
Artist: American Artist
Price: $950.00
This is an original men's magazine interior illustration of unknown usage, dating to the 1950s to 60s. The scene shows a dramatic alley fight, with one man falling to the ground, flashlight tumbling, after the other got the jump on him. A grisaille gouache on illustration board, this painting is very nicely framed and matted […]
Artist: American Artist
Price: $950.00
Alexander Sharpe Ross original artwork, a Redbook Magazine illustration for an installment in their serialized publication of Blackboard Jungle.
Artist: Alex Ross
Price: $2,850.00
Liberty magazine commissioned this painting by Harold Von Schmidt for an excerpt from The Red Napoleon, a 1929 "future history" novel by Floyd Gibbons.
Artist: Harold von Schmidt
Price: $9,500.00
Original painting by André Castaigne that shows Mark Antony and Cleopatra in a gauzy opulent Egyptian interior. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Andre Castaigne
Price: $4,500.00
A defining and haunting American Impressionist oilon board by Henry James Soulen. This painting was created for use as an interior illustration in the February 15, 1919 issue of the Saturday Evening Post(included in sale). Known for his Orientalist exotic aesthetic, Soulen was an early student of Howard Pyle. With Soulen's signature heavy expressive brush strokes and impasto technique, this work was exhibited in 1983 at the Delaware Art Museum.
Artist: Henry Soulen
Price: $7,500.00
A wonderful detailed original drawing by Harrison Fisher illustrating Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, found on page 99 of Bobbs Merrill's 1906 book, The Song of Hiawatha, an epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This charcoal and pencil drawing depicts the Indian Chief storyteller specifically. The complete book in which this appeared is included with the sale. Framed in a fumed oak arts and crafts aesthetic, wide quarter sawn frame, double matted and ready to hang in your home, office, art gallery or museum.
Artist: Harrison Fisher
Price: $5,500.00
This large, colorful, and bustling painting by the prolific American artist Louis Glanzman appeared in the April 26, 1952 issue of Collier's magazine, illustrating "Honkytonk - U.S.A." by William Slocum. In this scathing analysis, the honkytonk is described in great and scandalous detail as a lawless den of sin, whose unscrupulous owners prey on male weakness, hiring low-class strippers […]
Artist: Louis Glanzman
Price: SOLD
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: SOLD
A richly layered painting by the renowned early 20th century American Illustrator Arthur Ignatius Keller, depicting the climactic romantic scene from Emerson Hough's bestselling 1909 novel 54-40 or Fight. Keller was a prominent artist whose work was sought after by many of the leading authors of the day. He was known for his mastery of light, texture and feeling, and this rare frontispiece painting displays his stunning prowess and talent.
Artist: Arthur Keller
Price: $3,500.00
