Jerome Rozen

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Couple in a car with a Chauffeur Signed lower left. Charles Edward Chambers was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and later the Art Students League in ...

Story illustration for “One of the Others” by Fannie Heaslip Lea, published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine, March 1910. This evocative winter scene evokes a palpable sense of the biti...

By John T. Rowe Print Sz: 7 3/4"H x 5"W Sheet Sz: 12"H x 9"W

A mid-century American Impressionist oil painting depicting two men with an American Flag in the background by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Like much of Kinghan's work, this painting is the original that was used for short story illustration. Signed "Kinghan" lower left. Presented in a wood frame. Image, 24"L x 20"H. Frame, 22"H x 26"W. Charles Ross Kinghan was born in Anthony, Kansas on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign Works. Kinghan later studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1916, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Audubon School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a pupil of Carl Scheffler, J. Wellington Reynolds, and H.A. Oberteuffer. He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was an illustrator for McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many other magazines including American Artist magazine. He was author and illustrator of Rendering Techniques for Commercial Art and Advertising (1956) and of Ted Kautzky...