Benjamin Stahl

Down the Hatch

1978

Stamp verso indicates the work illustrated the Franklin Library publication in 1978 of Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling (Page 16)

An original illustration for the Franklin Library publication in 1975 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (Page 5).

Fisherman on boat

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned A Gunfight Forthcoming

Benjamin Stahl: 1910-1987. Well listed illustrator with auction records over $10,000. I bought this fabulous illustration 15 years ago and it has been hanging on my wall ever since....

Untitled Signed, l.r. Oil on paper 16 x 13 inches (40.6 x 33 cm), framed 10 x 7.5 inches (25.4 x 19.1 cm), image This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.

Artist: Jack Levine, American (1915-2010) Title: Unknown Year: 1970 Medium: Etching Paper: Arches Image size: 10 x 7.75 inches Paper size: 15 x 11.25 inches Signature: Signed and dat...

A group of figures heads for icy distant mountains. A familiar enough scene of polar explorers hauling their sledges. Yet somehow this does not quite fit the heroic mold. The ice and sky are tinged a movie musical pale blue and their gear is a bit too colorful for the era of man-hauling. And then there’s the sled, piled high not with boxes of supplies but with a jumbled heap of antiquities: Greek Athenas, bits of a coliseum, a ship’s great wheel. In Jessica Houston’s collage “The Long Haul,” the explorers drag history itself into the great beyond, their backs turned from their absurd load. But we take in the entire scene. In her suite of works, Over the Edge of the World, Houston uses oil on wood, ink on paper, and collages of found images, many from National Geographic Magazine, to rearrange the evidence – and thus history’s possibilities. Houston joins visual artists such as Judit Hersko, Katja Aglert, and Isaac Julien...