Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This interior illustration published in the July 17th 1954 issue of the Saturday Evening Post comes from the estate of the artist Edwin Georgi. The image shows a couple on a tense afternoon drive, and appeared on the second page of the first installment of the serialized mystery “Invitation to Murder.” A copy of […]
Artist: Edwin Georgi
This beautiful and mysterious illustration by Edwin Georgi was created in 1954 as illustration for an interior story in the Saturday Evening Post. Later, a very similar but more tightly rendered variation on this theme would appear in Redbook Magazine illustrating a story titled Marry For Money. While we have been unable to locate […]
Artist: Edwin Georgi
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
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
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
This rugged barroom shootout scene is a dramatically rendered, Western Americana gouache illustration by the California illustrator Fred Ludekens.
Artist: Fred Ludekens
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
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
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
