James E. Seward

Illustration of Will Rogers

1983

Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Walter Brennan as `Granpappy` Amos McCoy in the ABC-TV hit series `The Real McCoys` at the time of the rural sitcom`s 1957 debut, the show ran from 1957-62 over ABC before ending its final 1962-63 season on CBS, for a total bumper crop of 223 episodes. James Aubrey, President of CBS from 1959-65 helped develop `The Real McCoys` when he was at ABC, and picked it up in 1962 to match the success of `The Andy Griffith...

Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 18.50" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Country Gentleman, Magazine Cover, June 21, 1924 Joseph Francis Kernan was a sportsman all of his life and the majority of his subjects featured, as he described it, "the human side of outdoor sports, hunting, fishing and dogs." These were the ideal subjects for magazine covers and his work appeared on all of the major - and some minor- magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty, The Country Gentlemen, Capper's Farmer, The Elks, Outdoor Life, and The Associated Sunday Magazines. His work was also commissioned for calendars, and advertisers such as Fisk Tires, International...

Date: 2011 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right and Verso

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.

Original painting signed by the Artist on lower left.

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....

Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are professional artists with extensive experience in both the commercial and fine art fields. They presently work out of their studio in Florida, creating original art for gallery display, fine art crafts and taking commissions for murals & embellishments. Helene was born in Canada in 1949. She studied art in Europe as a young adult and attended Phoenix Pratt School of Design in New York and St. Petersburg Community College in Florida. She worked for advertising agencies and freelance art projects such as theater design and t-shirt designs for several companies. She owned and operated an art studio (“Artistic Endeavors”) in Melbourne, Fl. for five years. She started doing murals and embellishments (residential and commercial) from 1992 till present. She considers her early life in Europe the major source of her artistic influence as well as the works of Modigliani. Eric was born in Missouri in 1950. He started drawing literally as an infant and has never stopped. He was taking commissions for book covers & wall designs in his teens and studied art at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. He taught art in public schools in Alabama in the ‘70s. He worked as art director at Huntsville Educational Television for 6 years, as art director at Southern Sportswear in Daytona for 9 years, at Creative Signs & Designs in Flagler, Fl. for 6 years, and as a freelance artist and co-owner (with his wife Helene) of “BessStudio” (formerly “Artistic Innovations Inc.”) since 1998. His artistic influences include Michelangelo, Vermeer, Blake, Maxfield Parish...