Joseph Pigone

Radio Device Guides the Blind

1934

Signature: light pencil signature lower left in the artwork Front Cover Art Judge Magazine December 1933 In a departure from their typical flapper cov...

Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 22.00" x 30.00" Framed 33" x 41 1/2" Excellent condition Original use: Bookplate for Tennyson's A Dream of Fair Women A macabre and dark highly inventive large format gouache illustration painting by Harrison Fisher used as a full color book plate in the 1907 edition of "A Dream of Fair Women" by Lord Alfred Tennyson...

Date: 1908 Medium: Gouache on Three Illustration Boards Dimensions: 2.50" x 32.50"; Two at 12.50" x 9.75", Overall 12" x 53" Signature: Each Signed or Monogrammed Large group of cup...

Cherry Dancer Marcel Vertes French, 1895-1961 Beautiful girl juggling cherries Work is round but is shown in a square frame and some of the artworks edge is exposed Description: ...

O MARA'S MUNICIPAL TAVERN - Saturday Evening Post Illustration Supreme technical skill allows the artist to realistically capture an...

“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration. But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design. Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration. Signed lower right Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...

Lorraine Fox was a pioneering female Illustrator/artist who championed a unique style immediately identified as hers. This work, in two parts, was most likely for a newsstand woman's...

The cop admires the car while the viewer admires the drawing of the car. The enduring legacy of Ben Denison may not be that he was an early cartoonist for Playboy, but for his style...

A complex story is portrayed in one picture. American Glamour Illustrator Jon Whitcomb interprets a Mid-Century Cosmopolitan story about a beautiful blond actress who, on set, appea...

Boundless whimsical creativity defines this Time Magazine Cover proposal. In 1970, famed illustrator/artist Robert Grossman visualized a cover story i...