John Philip Falter

Study for San Francisco Weekend

Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1949 Label on back is Falter’s handwriting, his daughter said Curtis Publishing probably titled it “meeting the Date”. The Episcopal ...

Signature: Signed and Dated

Signature: Unsigned Illustration for Cosmopolitan Magazine, July 10, 1926

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Mixed Media Illustration

A man stares out across a party while in the sky a faint figure is visible, perhaps the invisible presence that artist Erik Freyman alludes to in the artwork's title. Invisible Pres...

Evocative and compelling Suburbia scene painting titled "Madam Suburbia...The New Religion" by Patricia Gren-Hayes (American, b. 1932). Signed and titled, dated 1975 on verso and upper edge and noted Ruvolo for Felix Ruvolo (American, 1912 - 1992) art class. Unframed. Size: 39.5"L x 30"H. Purchased direct from the artists estate. Bay Area Figurative / Bay Area Feminist Art Movement artist, Patricia Gren-Hayes, studied at Winnipeg Public Art School in 1950. She received early recognition in Museum and Gallery competitions and exhibitions and was awarded a Special Education in Art recognition by the Winnipeg Museum of Fine Art, and was awarded a scholarship to the Banff College of Fine Art. Further studies were at The University of Manitoba. She was a Member of Winnipeg Free Press Sketch Club and was a Cartoonist and paste-up for a French-English bi-weekly, in Eastern Canada; She studied outdoor impressionism in New York in 1960; in 1962, attended The California College of Arts and Crafts, and in 1976 B.A., U.C. Berkeley where she studied under Elmer Bischoff, David Simpson, Joan Brown, Felix Ruvolo, Yolanda Lopez and Vincent Perez...

Original Preliminary Book Illustration Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, MacMillan, 1963 At the Admiral Benbow Mixed-media on board 9.5in. x 6in. (sight size) Signed lower left: J. Falter Inscribed lower left: "Sketch for Treasure Island" Morris Weiss collection...

Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama. It's the instant of friends having fun. A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod. The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment. The decisive moment is preserved. Sounds like a critique of an art photograph? No, it's an illustrator. This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting. Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment. While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition. Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist. We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...