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Medium: Illustration Board
Pretty In Pink - Three Original Artworks, Framed, 5.75" x 8.5", Dress Paintings
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This is a set of three original artworks on board combining delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The outcome offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, with a flowing pink draped grace...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board, Pencil
Nightie Night - 5"x9", Small Framed Artwork, White, Beige, Feminine
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
A soft neutral palette used in this artwork adds to the graceful, feminine quality of the subject matter. Focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush wor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Cuban Artist - Caricature of Adolphe Menjou Debonair Devil
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Cuban Artist/Caricaturist Conrado Walter Massaguer presents Hollywood star Adolphe Menjou in a satirical dual portrait. In the foreground, the subject is seen in a dapper top ...
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1930s Art Nouveau Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Illustration Board
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
Located in Soquel, CA
Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s
The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper
Pretty In Pink - Three Original Artworks, Framed, 5.75" x 8.5", Dress Paintings
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This is a set of three original artworks on board combining delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The outcome offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, with a flowing pink draped grace...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board, Pencil
Whimsical Illustration Skiing Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being a Skiing scene, a boy and a girl on skis. signed W. Steig
Provenance: from Mrs. Joseph B. Ryan, Commissioned by Joe Ryan for the bar at his ski resort, Mount Tremblant Lodge, in 1938.
Mont Tremblant, P.Q., Canada
Watercolor and ink on illustration board, sights sizes 8 1/2 x 16 1/2 in., framed.
In 1938 Joe Ryan, described as a millionaire from Philadelphia, bushwhacked his way to the summit of Mont Tremblant and was inspired to create a world class ski resort at the site. In 1939 he opened the Mont Tremblant Lodge, which remains part of the Pedestrian Village today. This original illustration is on Whatman Illustration board. the board measures 14 X 22 inches. label from McClees Galleries, Philadelphia, on the frame backing paper.
William Steig, 1907 – 2003 was an American cartoonist, sculptor, and, in his later life, an illustrator and writer of children's books. Best known for the picture books Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Abel's Island, and Doctor De Soto, he was also the creator of Shrek!, which inspired the film series of the same name. He was the U.S. nominee for both of the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Awards, as a children's book illustrator in 1982 and a writer in 1988.
Steig was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1907, and grew up in the Bronx. His parents were Polish-Jewish immigrants from Austria, both socialists. His father, Joseph Steig, was a house painter, and his mother, Laura Ebel Steig, was a seamstress who encouraged his artistic leanings. As a child, he dabbled in painting and was an avid reader of literature. Among other works, he was said to have been especially fascinated by Pinocchio.He graduated from Townsend Harris High School at 15 but never completed college, though he attended three, spending two years at City College of New York, three years at the National Academy of Design and a mere five days at the Yale School of Fine Arts before dropping out of each.
Hailed as the "King of Cartoons" Steig began drawing illustrations and cartoons for The New Yorker in 1930, producing more than 2,600 drawings and 117 covers for the magazine. Steig, later, when he was 61, began writing children's books. In 1968, he wrote his first children's book. He excelled here as well, and his third book, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (1969), won the Caldecott Medal. He went on to write more than 30 children's books, including the Doctor DeSoto series, and he continued to write into his nineties. Among his other well-known works, the picture book Shrek! (1990) formed the basis for the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek (2001). After the release of Shrek 2 in 2004, Steig became the first sole-creator of an animated movie franchise that went on to generate over $1 billion from theatrical and ancillary markets after only one sequel. Along with Maurice Sendak, Saul Steinberg, Ludwig Bemelmans and Laurent de Brunhofff his is one of those rare cartoonist whose works form part of our collective cultural heritage.
In 1984, Steig's film adaptation of Doctor DeSoto directed by Michael Sporn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. As one of the most admired cartoonists of all time, Steig spent seven decades drawing for the New Yorker magazine. He touched generations of readers with his tongue–in–cheek pen–and–ink drawings, which often expressed states of mind like shame, embarrassment or anger. Later in life, Steig turned to children's books, working as both a writer and illustrator.
Steig's children's books were also wildly popular because of the crazy, complicated language he used—words like lunatic, palsied, sequestration, and cleave. Kids love the sound of those words even if they do not quite understand the meaning. Steig's descriptions were also clever. He once described a beached whale as "breaded with sand."
Throughout the course of his career, Steig compiled his cartoons and drawings into books. Some of them were published first in the New Yorker. Others were deemed too dark to be printed there. Most of these collections centered on the cold, dark psychoanalytical truth about relationships. They featured husbands and wives fighting and parents snapping at their kids. His first adult book, Man About Town, was published in 1932, followed by About People, published in 1939, which focused on social outsiders. Sick of Each Other, published in 2000, included a drawing depicting a wife holding her husband at gunpoint, saying, "Say you adore me."
According to the Los Angeles Times, fellow New Yorker artist Edward Sorel...
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1930s Naturalistic Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Category
1940s American Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
19th C. Newspaper Illustration of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury 1898
Located in Soquel, CA
Historical late 19th century portrait of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury of San Francisco y Richard Langtry Partington (American, ...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Illustration Board
'Navajo Family', Santa Fe, Modernism, Corcoran, Whitney, PAFA, AIC, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...
Category
1940s Art Deco Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Watercolor
'After School', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, PAFA
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) and painted circa 1935.
This early twentieth-century painter, lithographer, muralist, author, poet and ill...
Category
1930s Art Deco Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
'Nymph with a Centaur', French School, Academic, Greek Mythological Grisaille
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur interrupting the playing of his pan pipes to cast a speculative eye towards a dancing nymph. Datin...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
'The Thief from François Villon's Christmas', San Francisco Bay Area Illustrator
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965.
Displayed in an original card mat decorated by the artist. Signed lower right, in pencil, 'J. M. Phillips' and titled, lower left, ''The Thief' - from Francois Villon's Christmas'. Mat dimensions: 16 x 13 inches.
Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Jean Turner Art Academy and, later, under Alfred Owles...
Category
1960s Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
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1920s Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest.
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Gianluca Vialli - Juventus Captain in Rest, Icon of Modern Myths
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017) ...
Category
1990s Pop Art Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Johnny Carson for His Debut Appearance on "The Tonight Show"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Center Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Johhny Carson on `The Tonight Show...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th century Italian figurative landscape of a traditional wheat field harvest scene, by S. Frosini (Italian, 20th Century). This figurative landscape in gouache depicts in gre...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Church Interior
By Ray Quigley
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.
Category
1950s Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Ink
'Life Among the Clouds', Hookah, Persian, Indian, Sufi, Hashish
By Keith Halonen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Keith Halonen" (American, b. 1946), dated 1969, and titled lower left, "Life Among the Clouds".
Richly patterned, ink figurative showing a man lounging on the f...
Category
1960s Modern Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
"Star Time"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter 1911-2004) for the DuMont Network`s `Star Time`, broadcast from their NYC flagship station WABD (now WNYC). The hour series ran on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. from September 5, 1950 to February 27, 1951. Depicted from left to right: Benny Goodman...
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1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
America's greatest female illustrator draws a heartwarming picture of a mother putting to bed her child. Motherly love towards their children is the artist's most iconic theme. This ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions - Mad Magazine -Table for How Many Restaurant
Located in Miami, FL
"Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" is one of Al Jaffee's signature series. This work was a double-page work that appeared on pages 60 - 61 in Mad Magazine in 1968. Although this w...
Category
1960s Conceptual Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen
Light Envelope with Tape, realist watercolor and pencil still life, 2016
By Margot Glass
Located in New York, NY
Margot Glass explores the fragility of communication, and people’s natural drive to find narrative in even the most ordinary of objects. In her Envelopes series, Glass works in water...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
"Freelance, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Freelance" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts an artist walking through an abstracted wo...
Category
1980s Contemporary Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Morey Amsterdam as Featured Host of "Elliot Murphy's Aqua Show"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
On 13.50" x 20.00" illustration board with the image measuring to 9.00" x 13.25."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Morey Amsterdam as featured host of the 12th annual `Elliot Murphy`s Aqua Show` at the Flushing Meadow Ampitheatre, on Long Island. This edition of the spectacular water-themed musical review commenced June 19, 1956 and featured tumblers `Wells and the Four Fays`, plus the Forseitz-Mendes troupe of wire walkers...
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1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1945 Broadway Show, "State of the Union"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board and Cardstock
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the 1945 Broadway show...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Sleeping In, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 19, 1954
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Nero's Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Caricature of Opening of Zero Mostel in "Fiddler on the Roof"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This illustration is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board with a 12.50" x 12.00" image. Fine condition, editor's notations in margins.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the opening of Zero Mostel...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Ray Bolger in "Three to Make Ready" & "Where's Charley?"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
PEN & INK CARICATURES & SKETCHES - Drawings by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Ray Bolger in...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
'Age 9', Art Deco, Woman Artist, AIC, ASL, Paris, Salon d'Automne, Corcoran
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) as a full-page illustration for the book 'The Buttermilk Tree', circa 1935. A rare example of a fully-developed pen, ink and gou...
Category
1930s Art Deco Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen, Pencil
Children with Firecrackers
By Worth Brehm
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board
Signature: Initialed Middle Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Cosmopolitan Magazine #349 July 17/25
Category
Early 20th Century Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Environmental Prognostication Coil Narrative "Homo Sapiens R.I.P."
Located in Miami, FL
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," Joni Mitchell said. - - Created in 1969, at the dawn of the American environmental movement, artist Richard Erdoes draws a sequential narrative in the form of a coil. From inception to destruction, it illustrates a list of things that humans are doing to destroy the world we live in. The work was commissioned for school-age humans and executed in a whimsically comic way. Yet the underlying narrative is sophisticated and foreshadows a world that could be on the brink of ecological disaster.
Graphically and conceptually, this work exhibits an endless amount of creativity and Erdoes cartoony style is one to fall in love with.
Signed lower right. Unframed 12.4 inches Width: 12.85 inches Height is the live area. Board is 16x22 inches.
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
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1960s American Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board
Apocalypse, Catastrophic Destruction of the World, Surrealism - Life Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Apocalypse in 1962? At the height of the Cold War, Life Magazine commissions an illustration that describes the world's end by means other than a nuclear war with Russia. Richard Erdoes brilliantly illustrates the work with his highly stylized painting technique. My favorite part of the work is on the left side showing a group of people packed together as they fall into oblivion. A clear reference would be Hieronymus Bosch's "The Last Judgment "
Once Again the World Ends." Illustration published in Life Magazine, Feb. 9, 1962
Signed in lower right image.
Unframed
Richard Erdoes (Hungarian Erdős, German Erdös; July 7, 1912 – July 16, 2008) was an American artist, photographer, illustrator and author.
Early life
Erdoes was born in Frankfurt,[1] to Maria Josefa Schrom on July 7, 1912. His father, Richárd Erdős Sr., was a Jewish Hungarian opera singer who had died a few weeks earlier in Budapest on June 9, 1912.[2] After his birth, his mother lived with her sister, the Viennese actress Leopoldine ("Poldi") Sangora,[3] He described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew..."[4]
Career
He was a student at the Berlin Academy of Art in 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power. He was involved in a small underground paper where he published anti-Hitler political cartoons which attracted the attention of the Nazi regime. He fled Germany with a price on his head. Back in Vienna, he continued his training at the Kunstgewerbeschule, now the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.[5] He also wrote and illustrated children's books and worked as a caricaturist for Tag and Stunde, anti-Nazi newspapers. After the Anschluss of Austria in 1938 he fled again, first to Paris, where he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, and then London, England before journeying to the United States. He married his first wife, fellow artist Elsie Schulhof (d. xxxx) in London, shortly before their arrival in New York City.
In New York City, Erdoes enjoyed a long career as a commercial artist, and was known for his highly detailed, whimsical drawings. He created illustrations for such magazines as Stage, Fortune, Pageant, Gourmet, Harper's Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Time, National Geographic and Life Magazine, where he met his second wife, Jean Sternbergh (d. 1995) who was an art director there. The couple married in 1951 and had three children.[6] Erdoes also illustrated many children's books.
An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the Civil Rights Movement that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories...
Category
1960s Surrealist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Illustration Board
Vintage Bi-Plane Watercolor
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage bi-plane
Category
20th Century Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus Football Player, UEFA Champions League Triumph, 1996. Cm 72 x 50
Technique: Charcoal on paper, signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Illustration Board, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
1958 NBC-TV Western, "Buckskin"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1958 NBC-TV Western `Buckskin`, starring child actor Tom Nola...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Three Versions Caricatures of Shirley Booth as NBC's "Hazel"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen & Ink, (2) Color Comps on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned, Lower Left and Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 14.00" x 9.50."
Includes two different color versions in watercolor on board, preliminary sketch. Includes original copies of the magazine.
(3) Versions Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Shirley Booth...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Children Playing with the Baby /// Victorian Watercolor British Flowers Cottage
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ada L. Dennis (English, Late 19th Century-Early 20th Century)
Title: "Children Playing with the Baby"
*Initial signed by Dennis lower right
Circa: 1900
Medium: Original Water...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Board
Reading Before Bed, Original Illustration, Mother, Daughter, Cat, Book Worm
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Robert Konersman (American, 1889 - 1975)
Signed: Konersman (Lower, Left)
" Reading Before Bed " c. 1900-1920
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Laid on Illustration Board
Image Size...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Childhood', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Titled, verso, 'Childhood', signed with artist's Paris address and dated 1926.
This early twentieth-century...
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1920s Surrealist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Illustration Board, Watercolor, Gouache
Nancy Hamilton & Morgan Lewis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Broadway Lyricist/Playwright Nancy Hamilton & Composer Morgan ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"Father Knows Best"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on 20.00" x 15.00" illlustration board with an image that measures to 15.00" x 11.00."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for `Father Knows Best`, the enduring and endearing CBS-TV family sitcom (1954-1960), here featuring Robert Young...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Center Left
This illustration is on 15.00" x 11.00" illustration board, the drawing itself measuring to 8.00" x 6.00."
Ca...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
ZaSu Pitts in "Cordelia" &" Eva Le Gallienne" (2)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of ZaSu Pitts in `Cordelia` & Eva Le Gallienne h...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"The Millionaire"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for TV`s first `really big giveaway` hit, the CBS-TV series, `The Millionaire...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"The Threepenny Opera"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 12.00" x 13.00."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the long running Off-Broadway Revival of the Bertolt Brecht Musical `The Threepenny Opera...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"J. B."
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board, with blue to indicate halftone.
Signature: Signed Upper Left
This piece is on 22.00" x 14.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 12.00" x 6.50."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1958 Broadway drama, `J.B.`, starring Raymond Massey...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1944 Searing Broadway Drama, "Anna Lucasta"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece is on 11.00" x 15.00" illustration board, with an image that measures to 8.50" x 10.00."
Caricatur...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricatures of Bert Parks and Dan Seymour
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricatures of Bert Parks and Dan Seymour, hosts of the new television programs `Do...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature of the Cast of the Broadway Production of "Another Part of the F
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature of the cast of the Broadway production of `Another Part of the Forest` by Lillian Hellman, including (l to r) Mildred Dunnock, Percy Waram, Leo Genn, Patricia Neal...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Eric Blore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of 1930s English character actor Eric Blore, best known for his film roles in ...
Category
1930s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board
Caricature for NBC-TV Host Dan Seymour, for September 1951, "We the People"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
10.50" x 8.00" image on 15.00" x 11.00" board.
Ink on Illustration Board of NBC-TV Host Dan Seymour, for Sept...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Tony Award Winning Actors, Arthur Kennedy, David Wayne & Sam Wanamaker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Triple Portrait by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), of Tony Award Winning Actor...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
1945 Broadway Musical, "The Red Mill"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On 17.50" x 15.00" illustration board with an image that measures to 12.00
x 11.50." Illustration includes some blue indicating halftone.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1945 Broadway Musical...
Category
1940s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster for "Holiday Lodge"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
On 22.00" x 15.00" illustration board, the image measuring to 14.00" x 9.50."
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Canadian comedy duo Johnny Wayne & Frank Shuster for their new CBS-TV series `Holiday Lodge`. The act was well known to US viewers from many variety shows of the day, the show was a summer replacement for `The Jack Benny...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"Hide and Seek"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This piece is on 15.00" x 20.00" illustration board, and the drawing itself measures to 12.50" square.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1957 Broadway production of `Hide and Seek...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Nude Girl Epiphany Playboy Cartoon - Women's Liberation Moment
Located in Miami, FL
Richard Taylor is one of the great Cartoonists. He is celebrated for his dry sense of humor and skill in depicting people in subtle narratives. His instantly recognizable style is ...
Category
1960s Conceptual Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
“Winter Evening”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival Molvin arches paper by the well known American illustrator Fred Sweney. The scene depicts Central Park in New York City in a winter landscape with figures in conversation under an illuminated lamp post. Signed lower right. Titled verso in pencil with American Scene magazine #32 and page 30...
Category
1960s American Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Cafe', Woman Artist, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Berkeley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marie Pascal' (French-American, 20th century) and painted circa 1990.
Exhibited: Gallery Concord, December 1991.
Marie Pascal studied at the École Nationale Sup...
Category
1990s Realist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Portrait of George Arliss in Conte Crayon on Cardstock 1934
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately portrait of George Arliss by Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980). Mr. Arliss is depicted wearing his signature monocle, looking directly at the viewer. Although this piece appears to be done rapidly, there is a clear confidence in Opffer's work - he was an accomplished portrait artist - and the resemblance to the subject is unmistakable. George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor to win the honour. He specialized in successful biopics, such as Disraeli, Voltaire (1933), and Cardinal Richelieu (1935), as well as light comedies, which included The Millionaire (1931) and A Successful Calamity (1932).
Signed and dated "Ivan Opffer 1934" in the lower right.
Titled "Mr. Arliss" in the lower left.
Presented in a new off-white mat with foamcore backing.
Mat size: 22"H x 16"W
Art size: 17.5"H x 12"W
Ivan Opffer (Danish, 1897-1980) was born in Nyborg, Denmark, on June 4, 1897, to a family of Danish scholars and journalists. His brother was Emil Opffer, a Danish merchant seaman and journalist who was known for his relationship with American writer Hart Crane.
Ivan was raised in Mexico City and New York, where his anarchist father was the editor of a radical Danish-language newspaper. His involvement in painting and drawing began at an early age. At a summer workshop, he met and studied drawing with Winslow Homer, then went on to study at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League of New York.
When the US entered World War I, Opffer was one of the members of the American Army Camouflage Corps, headed by Homer Saint-Gaudens (whose mother was a relative of Winslow Homer), the son of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. As a camoufleur, Opffer served with other artists and architects, some of whom became well-known, including Barry Faulkner, Sherry Edmundson Fry, Kimon Nicolaides, Robert Lawson, Abraham Rattner, Kerr Eby, and others.
It was this same unit, while still in training in at Camp American University in Washington DC, that launched a camp newspaper called The Camoufleur. Only three issues were published before the unit’s deployment to France in late 1917. In the October 31 issue, a satirical portrait by Opffer of Homer Saint-Gaudens (titled “Our Boss”) was published on page 5.
After the war, Opffer returned to New York, where he became known for his caricatures of leading Modern writers, among them James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Siegfried Sassoon, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Sandburg, G.K. Chesterton, and Thomas Mann.
In the years between the wars, Opffer married Betty à Beckett Chomley, and settled in Paris, where he was a student at the Academie Julliard. He also lived in London and Copenhagen, where his drawings were frequently published in newspapers and magazines. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family returned to New York and lived in Greenwich Village.
Among his friends in that era were William Butler Yeats, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Illustration Board Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Conté, Postcard, Illustration Board
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