Edgar Franklin Wittmack

Striding Drum Major, Magazine Cover

1927

Cover of The Elks Magazine May 1935 Caption: "With a hey and a ho, and a hey nonino,. Sweet lovers love the Spring -- Shakespeare." Walter Beach Humphrey specialize...

Signed Lower Left by Artist Original cover for St. Nicholas magazine, published June 1921. A summer sporting image featuring a baseball player, golfer, swimmer, tennis player, and...

Cover illustration for This Week Sunday magazine. March 7, 1937 A young boy holding a bunch of hats handing an older man a hat. Exhibited: The Triumph of Winter, National Arts...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published August 8, 1936 and reprinted for the July / August 1996 issue. Kernan's Final Post Cover In the Eleventh Olympiad, Joseph Francis Kernan’s final cover for The Saturday Evening Post, a sprinter channels the speed and power of an eagle while preparing to represent the United States at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Kernan created 26 covers for The Saturday Evening Post between 1924 and 1936. Kernan’s depiction of the athlete was a fitting conclusion for the artist’s Post commissions, as much of his life’s work celebrated sportsmen and outdoor life. This now iconic cover held such impact that it was published twice – first on August 8, 1936, and later for the July / August 1996 issue to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the modern Olympic Games that took place in Atlanta, Georgia. Jesse Owens and the 1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics were held from August 1 to 16 in Berlin, Germany, which was then under Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime. The track and field competition garnered special attention that year, as Jesse Owens, the African American sprinter and long jumper, took home a historic four gold medals. Owens took center stage at the Games, setting new records in the 100- and 200-meter sprints, the long jump, and helped his team win a record-setting 4 x 100-meter relay. Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe were not initially scheduled to compete in the relay. On the morning of the event, it was announced that Owens and Metcalfe would take the places of Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller, the only Jews on the U.S. track team. Glickman later blamed the controversial decision on the U.S. Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage and track coach Dean Cromwell, accusing them of appeasing the Nazi regime’s anti-semitism. The magnitude of Owens’ achievements as a black athlete was multiplied by the fact that Hitler had unsuccessfully attempted to use the Summer Olympics to validate his theories of Aryan racial superiority. As the first Games to be televised, and with radio broadcasts reaching 41 countries, Hitler envisioned the Olympics as a way to disseminate Nazi propaganda. The German Olympic...

This graphic composition depicts Lord Cardigan on horseback commanding an equestrian military unit with the Union Jack flag proudly displayed. The famous battle scene "Charge of the Light Brigade...

Field Marshal is a lithograph by Antonio Zezon. Naples 1853. Interesting colored lithograph which describes a Field Marshal riding his horse, in great estate. In excellent condition, this print belongs to one of the most famous lithographic collections of the artist: The uniforms of the Bourbon army and navy. On the bottom of the lithograph you find the title of the work "MARESCIALLO DI CAMPO - In Gran Tenuta", alongside with the place and date to which it belongs "Napoli, 1853", finally also the author of the lithograph "A. Zezon Lit." and the draftsman from whom it was taken "A. De Lorenzo...

Bugler Foot Hunter, 1870 (lithographed facsimile 1883), Illustration after Édouard Detaille (1848 - 1912), similar in Musée de Nuits-Saint-Georges. This illustration shows a bugler from the 20th Chasseurs Battalion. "Chasseur" a French term for "hunter" or "huntsman", is the designation given to certain regiments of French and Belgian light...

Real Guard is an original lithograph by Antonio Zezon. Naples, 1852. Interesting colored lithograph which describes the Real Guard, alongside with a Sapper in dressing uniform, a Gu...