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Medium: Illustration Board
Nightie Night - 5.25" x 9.25", Original Artwork, White, Beige, Framed
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A tone on tone texture is built up in the background through the use of paint ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
1996: Angelo Peruzzi, Juventus Goalkeeper, Champion of UEFA Champions League
Located in Firenze, IT
1996: Gianluca Peruzzi - Juventus Goalkeeper, Champion of the UEFA Champions League
Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated '96
Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albiss...
Category
1990s Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Paper, Cardboard, Carbon Pencil
St. Raphael, Quebec, Canada - Hyper Realistic Windmill Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing of a windmill on a farm in Denmark by M. Mayer (20th Century). A large rustic windmill attached to a barn is the central focus of the piece. The landscape and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pencil
$422 Sale Price
35% Off
Flowers for Mary #2
Located in Dallas, TX
Gail Norfleet earned her BFA at The University of Texas at Austin, and her MFA at Southern Methodist University. She has had solo exhibitions at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary and ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 15, 2001, ink on mat board, 32x 20 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Suprematist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Whimsical Illustration Hiking Cartoon, 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one being cross country hiking 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...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Whimsical Fishing Illustration Cartoon 1938 Mt Tremblant Ski Lodge William Steig
Located in Surfside, FL
Lighthearted Illustration of Outdoor Pursuits This one of a fisherman 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...
Category
1930s American Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 9, 2001, 25 x 30 inches, Ink on Mat Board
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 12, 2001, Ink on Mat Board, 40 x 32 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Lanzarote, Portugal - Hyper Realistic Windmill Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing of a windmill on a farm in Portugal by M. Mayer (20th Century). A large, rustic windmill is the central focus of the piece, towering above the nearby trees an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pencil
$440 Sale Price
20% Off
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 14, 2001, ink on mat board, 40x 32 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Suprematist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Andra Samelson, Next to Nothing 11, 2001, Ink on Mat Board, 32 x 40 inches
Located in Darien, CT
Andra Samelson’s work explores the relationship of microcosm and macrocosm, emptiness and form. The imagery in her paintings is often associated with molecular and galactic systems. ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
Cal Nord, Denmark - Hyper Realistic Windmill Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed drawing of a windmill on a farm in Denmark by M. Mayer (20th Century). A large rustic windmill is the central focus of the piece, towering above the nearby trees and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Pencil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Pretty In Pink - 3, (5.75" x 8.5") Framed Original Artwork, Dress Painting
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
This original artwork on board combines delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The outcome offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, with a flowing pink draped gracefully against a fine...
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Pencil, Illustration Board
"All in Day, " Oil Pastel Drawing on Board signed on Verso by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"All in Day" is an original oil pastel drawing by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts multiple scenes of figures in motion—running, shoveling, liftin...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Sleeping Female Nude
By Paul Manship
Located in New York, NY
Sleeping Female Nude
Signed, l.r.
Charcoal on paper, mounted to paperboard
16.5 x 25.875 inches, mount
9.75 x 20.5 inches, sheet
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
Early 20th Century Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Illustration Board
Orange Envelope, Watercolor and pencil realist 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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Illustration Board, Pen
Imperial Woodpecker, aka Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Ornithology, Birdwatching
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Livzey Ridgeway (American, 1859-1947)
Signed: J. L. Ridgway
Imperial Woodpecker, aka Ivory Billed Woodpecker, c. 1898
Gifted to Doris B...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
"Double Diddle Phlebotomy Movement #5" drawing and layered paper sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Original multicolored hand-cut paper and ink on illustration board layered paper sculpture by Charles Clary measuring 9"h x 11"w. This piece ships in the pictured black frame.
Char...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Illustration Board
"Your New Home, " Abstract Surrealist Landscape Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Your New Home" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract, surreal, and biomorphic obj...
Category
1990s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Exploding Nude Orgasm, Original Illustration for Oui Magazine by Dennis Magdich
Located in Long Island City, NY
Dennis Magdich is one of America's leading illustrators and artists. His work has been published around the world in PLAYBOY and OUI magazines since 1975....
Category
1970s Pop Art Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
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...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Caricature for "Don McNeill's Breakfast Club"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
The illustration is roughly 11.00" x 7.00" on a 15.00" x 11.00" board.
Ink on Illustration Board for `Don McNeill`s Breakfast Club...
Category
1950s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Nude Playboy Cartoon, First African American Illustrator Elmer Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first and top black commercial artist in the USA for decades.
In "Grandma," we see a deeply conceptual work, with the blank canvas as the main point of the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Untitled (Cadillac Automobile Show)
By Evelyn Harper
Located in New York, NY
Evelyn Harper, "Untitled: Cadillac Automobile Show" , Mixed Media on Illustration Board, 15 x 10, Mid-20th Century, 1948
Colors: Black and White
A 15 x 10 Black and White Illustrat...
Category
1940s American Modern Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Illustration Board, Pen
Art Deco Coulple Magazine Story Illustration, RedBook The Saturday Evening Post
By Seymour Alling Ball
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower left: Seymour Ball Inscribed upper left: To Morris E Weiss with best wishes Seymour Ball" Matted not framed
Category
1930s Art Deco Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
"The Sound of Color, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Sound of Color" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist initialed the piece lower right. This piece features an abstract figure in...
Category
1980s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
Located in Miami, FL
115 years after they were created, one can view these silhouettes differently than the artist’s intent.
After all, the genesis of this work was an editorial illustration for Life Magazine to showcase elaborate women’s hats.
They were done for a commercial assignment with a deadline, and picky editors were overseeing the final work.
Today, they have a dual meaning.
These charming silhouettes are abstractions as much as they are representations.
Moreover, each one is a compact little gem stuffed with observational detail.
Golden Age female illustrator Jesse Gillespie's mastery of technical skill, is apparent in minute details and composition.
Young women, old women, pendants, necklaces, feathers, and laced vails all contribute to the works understated complexity.
The identity of the subjects are revealed by small areas of exposed neck and chin.
As the viewers eyes goes from left to right - all six silhouettes read as fashion hieroglyphs in a sentence with a visual rhythm and cadence. .
Initialed JG lower right., Matted but not framed.
Published: Life Magazine, March 17th, 1910.
Provenance: Honey and Wax Bookstore
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jessie Gillespie Willing (March 28, 1888 – August 1, 1972) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of illustration. She was considered the foremost silhouette illustrator of her time, although she did traditional illustration as well. Willing illustrated for books and magazines including Life, The Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Home Companion, Mother and Child, McClure's Magazine, Childhood Education, the Sunday Magazine, Association Men (the magazine of the YMCA), Farm and Fireside, Every Week, Children: The Magazine for Parents (which became Parents Magazine), and the American Magazine. She is perhaps most well known for her work for the Girl Scouts.
Early life
Willing was born in Brooklyn on March 28, 1888 to John Thomson Willing (August 4, 1860 – July 8, 1947)[1][2] and Charlotte Elizabeth Van Der Veer Willing (December 1, 1859 – March 4, 1930).[3] Thomson Willing was a noted illustrator and art editor. He was also well known for finding new artistic talent. Jessie Willing was the eldest of three children. Her brother Van Der Veer (November 30, 1889 – January 14, 1919), who died of pneumonia at the age of 29, was an advertising agent.[4] Her sister Elizabeth Hunnewell Willing (July 26, 1908 – August 15, 1991) was one of the first women to graduate from the Philadelphia Divinity School.[5][6] Elizabeth married the Rev. Orrin Judd, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, on September 22, 1931, and was active in church work.[citation needed]
The Willing family moved to the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia in 1901 or 1902. Jessie Willing attended the Stevens School, from which she graduated in 1905. She then went on to attend the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 to 1907.[7][8]
Career
Willing used her middle name Gillespie as her professional surname. She also often signed her illustrations J.G.[9] The story goes that the art editor of Life magazine was in Thomson Willing's office when he was the art editor of the Associated Sunday Magazine syndicate. Thomson Willing had some of Jessie's artwork on his desk, which the Life editor saw and admired. He asked for the artist's information so that he could give her freelance work. Thomson Willing did not want to be accused of nepotism so he persuaded Jessie to use Jessie Gillespie as her professional name, which she did.[10][11]
In addition to her extensive illustration work, Willing was also the editor of Heirlooms and Masterpieces from 1922 to 1931 and the art editor of Jewelers' Circular-Keystone from 1933 to 1939.[12] She specialized in jewelry publicity and advertising. In 1966 she won the Gold medal of the Printing Week Graphic Arts Exhibit in Philadelphia for her Christmas catalog for J.E. Caldwell Co., Philadelphia.
Willing was a member of the Plastic Club of Philadelphia,[13] the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and the National Arts Club of New York.[14] She was an honorary life member of the National Arts Club[15] and served on its Board of Governors from 1941-1970. In 1963, she received the Gold Medal of the National Arts Club in recognition of 32 years of selfless devotion.[15] Additionally, she was the national director of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) from 1943 to 1946.[15] Previous to this she served as the Program Chairman of the AIGA and in that position she put together a travelling exhibit on the "history of narrative art from the first recorded picture story to the comic book of the twentieth century."[16][17]
Illustrations in books
With Tongue and Pen--Frederick Bair, et al. (MacMillan, 1940)
Masoud the Bedouin--Alfred Post Carhart (Missionary Education Movement, 1915)
The Path of the Gopatis--Zilpha Carruthers (National Dairy Council, 1926)
The Schoolmaster and His Son: A Narrative of the Thirty Years War--Karl Heinrich Caspari (Lutheran Publication Society, 1917)
On a Rainy Day--Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah Scott Fisher (A.S. Barnes and Co., 1938)
Book of Games for Home, School and Playground--William B. Forbush and Harry R Allen...
Category
1910s Victorian Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
"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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Looks Like a Nice Getaway Spot, " Blue Landscape Oil Pastel scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Looks Like a Nice Getaway Spot" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features a surrealisti...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing "
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3"x3" silver wood frame 9.75"x10.75"
Unsigned came from artist's ...
Category
1990s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
1990s Mixed Media "Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing II"
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Micro Biomorphic Abstract Drawing II"
1990's
Pastel, pencil charcoal on illustration board
Site measures 3.5"x2.5" silver wood frame 10.5"x10.5"
Unsigned came from arti...
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1990s Abstract Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Illustration Board, Pencil
"California, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"California" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece at the upper right. It depicts a couple embracing.
30" x 40" ar...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series Section F" Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Not Intended For Office Viewing Series, Section F" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece fe...
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1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Catching A Fish, " Gouache and Watercolor, Signed
By Tom Rost
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Catching A Fish" is an original gouache and watercolor painting on illustration board. It is signed in the lower left by the artist Tom Rost.
25" x 20 5/8" art
30 5/8" x 24 3/4" framed with museum glass
Tom Rost spent most of his life in Wisconsin, graduating from the Milwaukee State Teacher's College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). He began his artistic career as an illustrator for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the Treasury Department. Later, he began illustrating for the Milwaukee Journal and then left to work in New York with the Field...
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1950s American Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
"Dedicated to Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, IL, USA, " by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Dedicated to Harold Washington, Mayor of Chicago, IL, USA" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It de...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Australian Aboriginal Fairy Tale in Jungle Scene Fantasy like Paul Gauguin
Located in Miami, FL
Brilliant Italian Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti paints a moody fantasy that illustrates an Australian Fairy Tale. A young and fit Aboriginal man is scene chasing a beautiful Aborigin...
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1960s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
"Creatures, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Creatures" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It features abstracted "creatures" in bright colors. ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Space Sense, " Multi-scene Oil Pastel on Illustration Board by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Space Sense" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features three distinct scenes--a green rainy scene with two figure...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Canadian Contemporary Art by Christian Frederiksen - Gold Ocean
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil pastel on illustration board
Category
2010s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil Pastel
"I Met a Virtuous Woman, " Oil Pastel on Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"I Met a Virtuous Woman" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper left. This piece features an expansive, surreal...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Baghdad Rain, " Oil Pastel on Illustration Board signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Baghdad Rain" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. It depicts some abstracted figures in a dream-like...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Relentless - Face Off, " Abstract Surreal Oil Pastel signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Relentless - Face Off" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece center right. It features an abstract, surreal landsca...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Coaster Condo, " Oil Pastel on Ragboard Marina View signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Coaster Condo" is an original oil pastel drawing on ragboard by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This artwork depicts two people outside of a condo building ...
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1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Rowing Sculling Team Regatta, Life Magazine - African American Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
E. Simms Campbell was the first African-American illustrator/ cartoonist published in nationally distributed, slick magazines, he created Esky, the familiar pop-eyed mascot of Esquire. This early work of 1930 was done on assignment for an interior page of Life Magazine. It features two Rowing teams engaged in spirited competition with cheering onlookers. This is a highly stylized black-and-white illustration and is masterfully executed. The work is composed of two illustrations, 6 x 9 inches and 2-3/4 x 2 inches respectively. It is initialed center bottow ESC. unframed
Campbell left the University of Chicago and transferred to and received his degree from the Chicago Art Institute.[3]
Professional career
During a job as a railroad dining-car waiter, Campbell sometimes drew caricatures of the train passengers, and one of those, impressed by Campbell's talent, gave him a job in a St. Louis art studio, Triad Studios.
He spent two years at Triad Studios before moving to New York City in 1929. A month afterward, he found work with the small advertising firm, Munig Studios, and began taking classes at the National Academy of Design.During this time, he contributed to various magazines, notably Life, & Judge
Following the suggestion of cartoonist Russell Patterson to focus on good girl art, Campbell created his "Harem Girls", a series of watercolor cartoons that attracted attention in the first issue of Esquire, debuting in 1933. Campbell's artwork was in almost every issue of Esquire from 1933 to 1958 and he was the creator of its continuing mascot, the cartoon character in a silk top hat.
He also contributed to The Chicagoan, Cosmopolitan, Ebony, The New Yorker, Playboy, Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, Pictorial Review, and Redbook.
His commercial artwork for advertising included illustrations for Barbasol, Springmaid, and Hart Schaffner...
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1930s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Gouache, Pencil
"Black Cloud Over Chenequa, " Oil Pastel and Watercolor signed by David Barnett
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Black Cloud Over Chenequa" is an original oil pastel and watercolor piece on museum board by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. It features a dark cloud ...
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1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Illustration Board
"Passionate People 'They Work Like Dogs To Get It'" Oil Pastel by Reginald K Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Passionate People, 'They Work Like Dogs To Get It'" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece f...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Surrealist Composition, " Ink on Board Drawing by Marvin Hill
By Marvin Hill
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Surrealist Composition" is an original ink on fourply museum board by Marvin Hil. It depicts a man balancing on a point over a faceless man and hovering above pyramids.
15 1/4" x ...
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1980s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board
"Nourishment, Shelter, Clothing, Art, " Surreal Oil Pastel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Nourishment, Shelter, Clothing, Art" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features an abst...
Category
1990s Contemporary Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"No More Electric Toothbrushes, " Oil Pastel signed on Verso by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"No More Electric Toothbrushes - Part I" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The Artist signed the piece on the back. This piece features abst...
Category
1980s Expressionist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
"Please Don't Offer Me Billions or Rivers, Rifles, Roigs & Rogues..." Oil Pastel
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Please Don't Offer Me Billions or Rivers, Rifles, Roigs, & Rogues or... But They Still Think Fear Is Good" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee...
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1980s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Illustration Board
Santa Claus Sexy Playboy Cartoon First African American Illustrator, Elmer Simms
Located in Miami, FL
Santa has a quickie with Mom.
Elmer Simms Campbell was the first African American Illustrator to work for major newsstand magazines.
Published December, 1963
Signed in pencil lower...
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1960s Realist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
Caricature of Tennessee Ernie Ford at a Pump Organ
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature Portrait of Ernie Ford at a Pump Organ. The il...
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1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
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...
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1960s Surrealist Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Illustration Board
1948 Broadway Revival of "Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Show Boat"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1948 Broadway revival of `Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II`s Show Boat`, starring Billy House as Cap`n Andy Hawks and Carol Bruce as Julie Dozier, City Center Theatre, directed by Hassard Short, produced by Richard Rodgers...
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1940s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Portraits of Leslie Nielsen & John Beradino for "The New Breed"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature with Color Overlay, Portraits of Leslie Nielsen and John Beradino for ABC-TV`s police crime drama, `The New Breed...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
Caricature Cover Design of E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed for "The Defender
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature Cover Design of E.G. Marshall & Robert Reed for `The Defenders`, CBS-TV Show that ran 132 episodes from 1961-65, this cover for the Sunday, April 14, 1963 New York Journal American Pictorial Magazine & TView Section, 12" x 9 1/2" image on 22" x 14" board, good condition, edge toning. Includes copies of the original magazine cover...
Category
1960s Illustration Board Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Illustration Board, Pen
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