Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Neysa McMein advertisement for Wallace Silver This stunning and expertly rendered pastel by Jazz Age illustrator Neysa McMein appeared as advertising for the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co.’s line of silver plate. Connecting the elegance of McMein’s flapper beauty to the idealized “perfect hostess”, this provides a wonderful window into what was considered “the […]
Artist: Neysa McMein
Price: Sold
Henry Vallely for Rit Dye Henry Vallely created this portrait style illustration of a charming flapper in a winter hat as advertising art for Rit Dye. The company was founded in 1918, and was one of the first domestic manufacturers of fabric dye for at home use. According to their website the founder named the […]
Artist: Henry Vallely
Price: Sold
Henry Raleigh created this signed and dated illustration for an interior story in a 1925 issue The Saturday Evening Post. The scene is a moody bedroom view with a woman crying into a pillow as a dapper man looks out the window, seeming to dream of escape from the bonds of domesticity.
Artist: Henry Raleigh
Price: SOLD
This rugged barroom shootout scene is a dramatically rendered, Western Americana gouache illustration by the California illustrator Fred Ludekens.
Artist: Fred Ludekens
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00
This original 1920s oil on board by Henry Soulen was likely an interior spot illustration which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The colorful, boldly painted, Orientalist scene shows a rickshaw and two figures in heated conversation in front of gates of what appears to be San Francisco’s Chinatown. Housed in a simple, original-to-the-painting wood […]
Artist: Henry Soulen
Price: Sold
An expressive Art Deco era large format oil painting by the noted American artist and illustrator Elbert McGran (E.M.) Jackson. The scene shows a bustling backstage dressing room, perhaps on opening night. In the foreground, a confident, lavishly costumed Follies Girl clutches her script as she prepares to make her debut, with reassurances from […]
Artist: E.M. Jackson
Price: Sold
The Song Without Words is an original Orientalist genre painting by the American artist and illustrator Daniel Content which appeared as a full page color plate in the May 1937 issue of The Ladies Home Journal. Illustrating a story by famed early frontier woman Rose Wilder Lane, the image was published along side a caption […]
Artist: Daniel Content
Price: Sold
