Mary Thomas

Mary Thomas, Plat-Eye

1945

While this is probably a military airport, Kent Hagerman still shows it at its futuristic best. Hagerman was an amazing draftsman who managed to get fantastic detail into his work. This is really a portrait of a plane -- the Fairchild C-119. The words 'United States Air Force' on the side of the plane date it to 1947 or later, after the Air Force split from the Army. The design featured the 'twin boom' clearly showing in this etching. Thanks to this feature it was called the Flying Boxcar. About 1100 were built and used until 1955. It was also used by the Chinese Air...

Signed titled, and dated, in pencil, and annotated in lower margin "My great-great grandfather's house, built in Bentleyville, Ohio in 1831; torn down in 1956." The wood engraving i...

Clayton Knight drew a careful rendering of the plane -- even showing how it would look in the air as it banked. Edward Stinson was an accomplished, eve...

The Place St. Andre des Arts, on the Left Bank in Paris, would have been a natural environment for Bendiner. It was the Latin Quarter, just south of the Louvre and near everything im...

Ohio-born Walter DuBois Richards (1907-2006) was educated at the Cleveland School of Art. He re-located to New York around 1933 where he had a successful career as a commercial artis...

Biographical information on Maurice Robert Dey is hard to find. He was born on 1899 (or maybe 1900), in Switzerland. As an adult he lived and worked in Woodstock, the NY artists' c...

New York: The Society of Iconophiles, 1908. The complete portfolio containing 12 photogravures after monotypes printed on O.W. handmade paper. Each image measuring approximately 8 1/4 x 6 inches (208 x 151 mm), with full margins. Each with the Society of Iconophiles blind stamp in the lower left margin. In very good condition with no visible defects. Printed by John Andrew & Son, Boston. Presented in the original greenish-gray paper wrapper with the contents page. Edition of 100. Subjects are: 1. Van Cortland Manor House 2. Oyster Market on West Street 3. St. John's Chapel, Varick Street 4. Fraunces Tavern 5. Houses at Battery Park...

A fine impression with full margins published by Associated American Artists with their information label present - pictured in Art and Popular Religion in Evangelical America, 1815-...

Original WW1 poster: A Wonderful Opportunity for You. Ashore, on leave. United States Navy. A pre-war recruiting lithographic poster features an ebullient sailor going home o...

Original Amtrak Southwest Amtrak … Takes You Clear Across America vintage travel poster. Amtrack … Takes You Clear Across America tr...

Original vintage travel poster: HOLLAND AMERICA CRUISES. Artist: David Klein. This poster is printed on a thicker paperstock and doesn't require ...

Original poster: For a Country Where We Are Still Masters of Our Own Destinies, Let's Be Truly Thankful. Silk-screened patriotism. This is a poster meant to appeal to the American f...