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An early 1900’s original illustration by Orson Lowell depicting a group of young boys taking in a baseball game knot-hole style. Major League Baseball of course still uses the term when larger ticket buys of youth groups are involved. I had never made a connection with the visual here, that the term stemmed from young boys peering through knot holes in the lumber used to build the outfield fences. A nostalgic Americana, baseball themed work by the gifted and prolific important golden age illustrator. Nicely matted and framed and ready to enjoy.

The Knot Hole Game

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price: $1,500.00 $1,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, american, baseball, child, Golden Age, illustration, Knot hole game, original interior illustration, Orson Lowell, sports
Added to Gallery: January 14, 2018

A rare surviving c. 1910 large pastel illustration by the well listed and prolific illustrator Frederick Duncan. The sporty yet flirty glamour girl co-ed with a school book and a tennis racket personifies the socially progressive, daring and active woman who was coming into fashion as the voluptuous ideal of the Victorian woman of means waned. Works like this by Duncan, a cover artist for The Saturday Evening Post, popularized this independent, carefree vision of womanhood.

Breezy Co-Ed with Tennis Racket

Artist: Frederick Duncan
Price:  $3,800.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, Frederick Duncan, glamour, original illustration art, sports, tennis
Added to Gallery: July 20, 2016

Featuring an action-packed early football image, this exciting, fresh-to-the-market pulp cover painting is signed lower right by Clyde Forsythe, an American illustrator who created a number of iconic American WWI propaganda posters.This large oil on canvas dates to around 1920 and we have so far have not been able to find where this appeared. Our hunch is that is was […]

It’s Good!!

Artist: Clyde Forsythe
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Clyde Forsythe, football, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, sports, The Golden Gallery, top notch
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

This fresh to the market large pastel pin-up illustration by Zoe Mozert was commissioned for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company and used in their 1950 line under the title “Ready To Serve”. Work is nicely lined and beautifully framed and in pristine original untouched condition with a large Brown & Bigelow published Calendar of artwork included in sale.

Ready To Serve

Artist: Zoe Mozert
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, original calendar art, pin up, sports, tennis, Zoe Mozert
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2011

A rare surviving original advertising illustration by noted American illustrator Jean Oldham. Created in the Americana vein of Leslie Thrasher and Norman Rockwell. This piece was created as exclusive print advertising by Philadelphia Made Hardware. A fresh and new to the market Saint Paul Minnesota estate find. Comes framed in fine newer gallery frame.

Football Interference

Artist: Jean Oldham
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, hardware, illustration, Jean Oldham, Minnesota Artist, sports
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2007

This whimsical and humorous fishing scene was created in 1964 as advertising art celebrating 100 years of Hauenstein beer. A remarkably colorful and well rendered oil-on-board featuring a rural Americana scene of the sort popularized by Norman Rockwell. This is a rare surviving original Breweriana advertising illustration by Gale Hendrickson, who enjoyed a long and prolific career as commercial illustrator at Brown and Bigelow, working in a style inspired by the artistic visions of friend and fellow B&B illustrator Bill Medcalf. Comes in fine rustic gallery frame.

Hauenstein Brewery Fishing Scene

Artist: Gale Hendrickson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, advertising, american, breweriana, fishing, Gale Hendrickson, sports
Added to Gallery: April 15, 2007

A presumed cover painting for a 1915-1920 edition of a young peoples magazine most likely St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls (I have yet to locate the actual magazine this was used for). A confident Edwardian attired young lady enjoying the active life as was prescribed in such periodicals after the turn of the last century and post Victorian idealized, more petite, feminine beauty. Looks like the work of Charles Relyea or perhaps Norman Price another possible candidate would be Charles Chase Emerson all of whom did covers in numorous periodicals in this genre.

A Young Woman Sailor

Artist: Unknown
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Edwardian, sailor, sports, St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls
Added to Gallery: January 26, 2006

We have a collection of three Gag Cartoons done by the well listed illustrator Bob Pettes for reproduction as calendar art by Brown & Bigelow. These feature hapless “Scotch swilling ” hacks — ala Caddyshack and Rodney Dangerfield — but decades earlier in this depiction. Ready to frame with expensive round cut matts. Pettes is best known as an illustrator for puzzle reproduction.

Collection of Golf-themed Gag Cartoons

Artist: Robert Pettes
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, cartoon, Gag Cartoon, golf, original calendar art, Robert Pettes, sports
Added to Gallery: July 24, 2005

A rare and detailed original gouache illustration of a frenetic hockey scene for either a sports pulp cover or an interior 2 page spread for a slick mainstream publication. Art is signed William Reusswig and dated on verso as seen. A recent sale at the Illustration House in New York City at auction brought $18,000+ for a pulp cover by this well listed artist.

Hockey

Artist: William Reusswig
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, hockey, pulp, sports, William Reusswig
Added to Gallery: July 5, 2005

 

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