Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
O my Luve's like a red, red rose that’s newly sprung in June Enchanting, dream-like, and romantic, American illustrator Zula Kenyon's early 20th century portraits offer up a soft, supple, and genteel look at the Edwardian woman. This original pastel on canvas illustration dates to 1914 and features a brunette beauty with milky-white skin draped […]
Artist: Zula Kenyon
Price: $2,500.00 $1,875.00
Flowers of the Field by Haskell Coffin This is a lovely, published calendar girl pastel illustration by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. This shows a demure, doe-eyed, delicate brunette beauty with a posey of freshly picked daisies. The illustration was published by The Osborne Calendar Company with the title, "Flowers of the […]
Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price: $3,500.00 $2,625.00
Demure Woman in Straw Bonnet by J. Knowles Hare This is a large, early 1900s pastel illustration by John Knowles Hare that was created for the calendar market during the Edwardian era. In this portrait, a demure brown-eyed lass gazes out towards the viewer from underneath a stylish, wide-brimmed straw bonnet with flowers. This lovely […]
Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price: $3,500.00 $2,625.00
Parisian Victorian Maiden by Hamilton King This is a fabulous, turn of-the-last-century, large pastel on tinted artist's paper by the prolific American illustrator Hamilton King. In this portrait a Parisian Victorian beauty in a large plumed hat stylishly traverses through a windy Paris winter day. The pastel is nicely matted and framed under glass and […]
Artist: Hamilton King
Price: $3,500.00 $2,625.00
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 1900s under the name "The Sunshine Girl". This example was titled "Autumn", an original […]
Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price: $3,500.00 $2,625.00
This is a C.1940 pastel illustration created by Hungarian artist and illustrator Jules Erbit for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Titled, "Betty", this is a glamorous pin-up offering of a pretty blue-eyed girl with flushed, rosy cheeks and inviting red lips. Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major […]
Artist: Jules Erbit
Price: Sold
Pin-Up Glamour Portraiture by Jules Erbit This is a dated 1942 pastel illustration created by Hungarian artist and illustrator Jules Erbit for The Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company. Titled, "Jeannie", this is a glamorous pin-up offering! Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major calendar companies of the day. He offered typically […]
Artist: Jules Erbit
Price: Sold
Love's Young Dream by Carle J. Blenner This is a soft, moody, and evocative pastel by the well-listed and prolific illustrator Carle J. Blenner. This features a lovely Edwardian maiden in a loose fitting pink dress with a plunging neckline that reveals a tantalizing view of her bust line. This pastel was published as a […]
Artist: Carle J. Blenner
Price: $4,500.00 $3,375.00
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
Price: $3,500.00 $2,625.00
This is a colorful, deftly created, and luminous pastel illustration on stretched canvas by the prolific illustration team of Henry and John Hintermeister, who collectively painted under the name Hy Hintermeister. In this piece a stylish, young, red-haired flapper in equestrian attire rides a black stallion horse against a pastoral autumn colored backdrop that is […]
Artist: Hy Hintermeister
Price: SOLD
