Art by Medium: Illustration Board

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...

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 ...

"Points Further Absent Vegetation" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This piece features an abstract...

Serene landscape of the Putah Creek Bridge (now submerged, also known as Monticello Bridge) by Frank Willson Judd (American, 1864-1940). The Putah Creeks flows beneath an old Closed-spandrel red stone arch bridge 1896-1957 submerged intact beneath Lake Berryessa in 1957. When built this bridge was reputed to be the longest stone arch bridge in California and quite possibly the largest West of the Rockies. Signed and dated "Frank Willson Judd 1937" in the lower left corner. Presented in an antique, distressed frame...

Historical late 19th century portrait of Hiram H. Hobbs, Foreman of the Grand Jury of San Francisco y Richard Langtry Partington (American, ...

Husband-and-wife illustration phenoms team up to produce another highly stylized yet charming visual narrative that speaks not only to children but also to anyone with a curious mind. The wise man Pundabi tries to help the wealthy king see the poverty and suffering in his kingdom by inventing the mystery of the Golden Serpent. The king visits the villagers. 1980. Mixed media on Bristol board. Unframed Inscribed and signed in lower right image, "For Rich, Martin and Alice Provensen...

"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. ...

Little Benny Wanted a Pony, from Little Golden Books, is a classic in the children's book genre. Famed Illustrator Richard Scarry succeeds in connecting people's lives, but in his c...

Acrylic painting of white, red, and pink "Swingtime" varietal of fuchsia flowers, hanging from a vine on grey art board by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Signed by the artist in the ...

"Destruction of the Apple Juice Pool" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece upper right. It features abstract marks ...

"Untitled" is an original oil pastel drawing on illustration board by Reginald K. Gee. This piece features abstract marks in blue, black, green, and yellow. 40" x 30" art Custom fr...

"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...

"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 ...

Two charming paintings of a little girls dress and tiara hairpiece capturing the innocence and wonder of childhood. The paintings comes to life with soft, flowing brushstrokes. Layer...

Oil on illustration board Christian Frederiksen is a Georgian artist born in 1989 who lives and works in Calgary, Canada. He loves to experiment with new ways of creating imagery by...

Don Quixote is depicted on a white horse, wielding a long lance, by Italian Illustrator Gianne Benvenuti. The work is painted in a dreamy, monochromatic white that blurs the distinct...

This is a set of three original paintings on canvas featuring girls ballerina tutus in complimentary shades of pink, mauve and green. The dresses comes to life with soft, flowing bru...

This is an original painting on canvas featuring a girls ballerina tutu in soft shades of green, mauve and touches of pink. The painting comes to life with soft, flowing brushstrokes...

This is an original painting on canvas featuring a child's white ballerina tutu with soft shades of mauve, pink and green in the background. The painting comes to life with soft, flo...

Oil on illustration board

"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...

Manifesto Istituto Olandese is a beautiful illustration on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed on the center and dated 1959s. This interesting document is in good conditions.

"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...

Wanderer is a beautiful original black and white illustration on ivory colored paper, applied on black cardboard, realized at the beginning of XX century by an anonymous artist. A wo...

Oil & acrylic on illustration board

This Oldsmobile Cutlass advertisement from 1977 depicts a complex figural composition integrated with a car and a homey landscape. Beyond its status as a historical document of an Ol...

This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s. Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's. Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...

Fitzpatrick & Kaufmann team up for another high performance art work. It combines a pre-photorealistic painting of a 1965 Pontiac by Fitzpatrick with a highly stylized modernist...

Political Cartoon of Ford and Kissinger, Magazine Cover Illustration for magazine. Most likely a cover Newsweek, Time Magazine or The Atlantic Magazine Signed lower right Work is ...

PRETTY IN PINK 3 - This original artwork on board combines delicate detail with expressive brushwork. The piece offers a soft, feminine aesthetic, featuring a pink dress with an acce...

NIGHTIE NIGHT 1 - In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A subtle tone on tone texture is built up in the background ...

Kitsch illustration of Queen of Clubs Playing Card by Female Illustrator Louise Alston. It's so bad it's good. Signed lower right: Louise Alston Framed Dimensions 25.5 X 18.5 Inches ...

"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...

A high-impact graphic of a whimsical Lion sporting a bowler hat is depicted for a cover for Holiday Magazine, April 1958. The issue was about England, and the editors finally ran a ...

The present work is the cover of The Complete Book of Oriental Cooking by Myra Waldo (Bantam, 1960). Female illustrator Lillian Chestney paints a cornucopia of nourishing edibles in ...

High-impact Art Deco Illustration of a WWII Sea Plane, viewed with today's eyes, is sleek, stunning, and campy Kitsch. The work is in surprisingly good to excellent condition for its...

Who said painting isn't a team sport? Two artists of different styles collaborate to achieve a seamlessly unified picture. Arthur M. Fitzpatrick's photorealism of the car joins Van ...

Romance Love Triangle on Fishing Boat his artwork appeared on pages 22-23 of the December 1957 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the fiction story by Budd Schulberg titled "Bar...

Bold Face. A low, wide-angle portrait of the Dodge Charger's front grille, combined with the car's impactful scheme, conveys power, style, and muscular masculinity. This is not a typ...

The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...

Even on a rainy day, life can't be better when there is a 1969 Pontiac Bonneville in the picture. The present Arthur "Art" Fitzpatrick & Van Kaufman collaborative automobile ad p...

Playboy Female Illustrator Shaleen Pedersen paints a surreal landscape stuffed with a plethora of faceless people, devoid of eyes, mouths, or noses. Yet, they are fully dressed in t...

In 1962, the fine art and museum worlds were absorbed by the later stages of Abstract Expressionism, the introduction of Hard Edge Abstraction, and the rise of Pop Art. Realism was ...

Mid-century Artist Victory Kalin was too good an artist for his paperback assignments. He was as much a virtuoso graphic designer as an illustrator. The present work exemplifies his ...

Disney Legend Mary Blair was also a commercial illustrator for national brands such as Maxwell House Coffee and Beatrice Foods, and two complete national campaigns for Pall Mall cigarettes. The present work was part of her Pall Mall cigarette campaign "'So friendly to your taste!'". We are unsure whether this work was a reproduced, or was only used in a test market , or for a client comp. Nonetheless, as a piece of commercial work-for-hire art, it rises to the realm of fine art. Even though the look of the work has a quick, loose and playful feel to it, each element is carefully placed to strike a perfect balance. In this campaign, the artist created the background, and the art director stripped in the product label. The cigarette to the left is also a cut-out and pasted into position to achieve the ideal look. Commercial art is, in almost all cases, a collaborative effort between the Art Director, the Artist, Account People, and the Client, yet in this case, the Mary Blair signature flat graphic and colorful style is dominant and the packaging is secondary. We have to assume the client, American Tobacco Company's brand Pall Mall was trying to sell the sizzle and not the steak. Nothing in advertising is done by chance. This Pall Mall campaign was acutely tested, and apparently, the Mary Blair style was the brand identity that the ad agency chose over other submissions. Blair's warm personal feel fits perfectly with the tag line "'So friendly to your taste!'" and connects with the audience. In the 1950s - 1960s, Mary Blair was one of the few women artists to design and execute a major mainstream advertising campaign that was not solely women-oriented subject matter: babies, women's clothes, and household products. Cigarette ads had some of the most significant budgets and visibility. Typically, they were a full page back or inside cover and pervasive billboards. The ad agencies could have called any artist in the world, and they would have jumped at the opportunity for such a sought-after, lucrative and prestigious job. In the commercial art field, Mary Blair was somewhat like Margaret Burke...

The present work is a factory illustration for the GM subsidiary Corvette, which features a classic blue C1 Corvette with distinctive dual headlights introduced in 1958. Design Deta...

A group of sexy Polynesian male and female dancers is depicted with expressive and sensual body gestures. The rhythmic fluidity of each dancer is transferred to their partners, unit...

Signed lower left. Alice Rose Provensen and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together, 19 of which they also wrote and edited. According to Alice, "we were a true collaboration. Martin and I really were one artist. The Provensens were a runner-up for the 1982 Caldecott Medal as illustrators of A Visit to William Blake's Inn by Nancy Willard (who won the companion Newbery Medal). Two years later they won the Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis...

If you do not want to be noticed, the idea is to blend in. Having a distinctive look will call attention to you, and that is the downfall of Ed's duplicity. The humor comes from the ...

This poster-like mid-century illustration of Little Miss Sunbeam in her Brownie uniform depicts her in a patriotic three-finger salute against an American Flag. It's by the celebrat...

From the Glynn and Suzanne Crain Collection, unsigned

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed in Various Positions Dimensions: Various different sizes, contact for exact dimensions of each illustration. (17) PEN & ...

Original cover for Collier's magazine, published December 21, 1901 The image features a woman sitting on a bench next to a dog and holding a book. Artwork Dimensions: 20" x 14" Fra...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Upper Right 8.50" x 8.75" image on 14.75" x 13.25" illustration board. Ink on Illustration Board with overlaid correction...

O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...

Beautiful Godzilla-like monster illustration from 1961. Wenzel was a prolific Disney Artist for decades. The work is beautifully matted and framed and looks better in person. Sign...

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Drawing by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the 1962 release of the book `Fail-Safe`, depicting the Strateg...

Large-scale, Mid-Century Illustration that imagines the Car Dealerships of the Future, possibly for the New York World's Fair, 1964-1965 fair, with the theme "Peace Through Underst...

This work is remarkable for its intense dramatic lighting effects and wide-angle composition. Very few artists conceived and executed with acutely dramatic light in the arc of art hi...

What makes this work important? It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot. The big point of the painting is how brilliantly the formal elements are thought out, designed, and executed. John McDermott tells a story using a complex figural composition in an unexpected wide-angle vision. The work is as abstract as it is representation. His use of light is significant because it creates a high-contrast two-color style that bears the mark of its creator. This is a work done by a master artist/illustrator without peers compared to artists living today. If the contemporary art world gave awards for draftsmanship, painting technique, and graphic design .... John McDermott would win the highest accolades. Initialed lower left - unframed John McDermott (August 30, 1919 – April 20, 1977), also known under the pen names J.M. Ryan and Mariner, was an American illustrator and author noted for action and adventure illustrations.[1] McDermott worked as an in-between and effects animator for Walt Disney Studios and as a US Marine combat artist,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy, American Weekly, and Outdoor Life. Under his J.M. Ryan pen name, he wrote the novels The Rat Factory (1971), a derogatory satire of Walt Disney and the Disney studio; Brooks Wilson Ltd (1967), on which the 1970 film Loving was based; and Mother's Day (1969) about Ma Barker. Under his own name, he novelized director-writer Bo Widerberg's screenplay for the 1971 film Joe Hill, which would be his final published book. Early life John Richard McDermott was born 30 August 1919 in Pueblo, Colorado, the younger of two sons of Henry McDermott, an oil broker. McDermott was a young child when his father committed suicide.[4] The family eventually moved to Los Angeles where McDermott's mother, Hazel, worked in a beauty parlor. He graduated from Hollywood High School in 1936. Although he had had no formal art education, he took a job as an artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Career Disney At Disney, McDermott worked as an in-betweener and effects animator on Brave Little Tailor, Pinocchio, The Reluctant Dragon and Fantasia. His experiences while working at Disney, particularly during the time of the 1941 Disney animators' strike, would later become the basis for his 1969 satirical novel The Rat Factory. McDermott left Disney to fight with US forces during World War II. US Marines McDermott World War II sketch titled "Buddy is Wounded" On September 29, 1942, McDermott enlisted with the US Marine Corps. He served as a "pistol and palette" combat artist assigned to the map-making section. As a sergeant with the III Amphibious Corps, McDermott was involved in battles in the South Pacific theater of war, documenting the Guam, Okinawa and the Guadalcanal Campaigns. McDermott considered his wartime years to be his art education. "In the Marines, as a combat artist, I traveled with the troops and for three years got all the drawing opportunity anyone could want. My work changed enormously during this time and I’m sure it was due to constant drawing, every single day, from life, just putting down what I saw around me. In a few instances it was a dangerous kind of scholarship." According to the Marine Corps history journal Fortitudine, McDermott was so prolific that his contemporary style pen-and-ink sketches became easily recognizable to both Marines, from published work in Leatherneck Magazine, and civilians, from glossy copies supplied by the Marine Corps to the nation's press.His wartime art appears in World War II history books and is displayed at the Pentagon and the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Illustration Following the end of World War II, McDermott moved from California to New York City to work as a freelance illustrator. McDermott made his reputation drawing modern action, war and adventure scenes. His work adorned the covers and inside story pages of popular pulp magazines of the 1950s such as Argosy, Adventure, Blue Book, Outdoor Life and American Weekly. McDermott's illustrations appeared on numerous covers of 1950s paperback novels published by Dell, Fawcett Gold Medal, Bantam Mystery and others. His action graphics were geared toward thriller and detective genres, such as Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm books Murderers' Row and The Betrayers. He also created covers for science fiction comic titles such as Voyage to the Deep[citation needed] and horror-themed paperbacks such as the classic 1955 science fiction novel The Body Snatchers...