Norman Mills Price

Lief Erikson The Lucky, Book Illustration

1939

Date: 1935 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 23.00" x 33.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration for magazine story, 1935. Original magazine story illustration...

Medium: Oil on Two Boards Dimensions: 17.75" x 13.50" (Each) Signature: Signed Lower Left Pygmalion story illustration, image of cast of characters on an English street.

Medium: Sepia Gouache on Board Dimensions: 25.50" x 16.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Story Illustration, Two Victorian women, man reading lett...

Signature: Signed and Dated Upper Right [19]37 Story illustration for "She Never Saw the Circus" by Nancy Hale, published in Redbook magazine, December 1937, page 49. The caption re...

Annibale Gatti (Forlì 1827 - Florence 1909), attr. Allegorical Scene Oil on paper applied to board, 25 x 30 cm - with frame 36 x 42 The allegorical work, by analysis and stylistic...

Caricature etching by American artist Charles Bragg. A viking poses looking out into the distance. Viking Charles Bragg,American (1931–2017) Date: circa 1970 Etching, signed, number...

Medium: pochoir (after the painting). This exquisitely rich impression on black wove paper was published in 1941 by the Nierendorf Gallery, of New York, for the cover of a now quite ...

Black chalk and graphite on light weight cream wove paper, 16 1/8 x 11 1/4 inches, (410 x 286 mm), the full sheet. Signed, titled, and dated in sepia ink in the lower-center sheet area. With horizontal folds approximately 1-inch from the sheet edge at each of the four sheets. The drawing appears to have been folded at the sheet edges to fit into a frame. Finn mac Cumail (or mac Umaill), often anglicized Finn McCool or MacCool, is a hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore. He is the leader of the Fianna bands of young roving hunter-warriors, as well as being a seer and poet. He is said to have a magic thumb that bestows him with great wisdom. He is often depicted hunting with his hounds Bran and Sceólang, and fighting with his spear and sword. Fionn MacCumhail was transformed into the character "Fingal" in James Macpherson's poem cycle Ossian (1760), which Macpherson claimed was translated out of discovered Ossianic poetry written in the Scottish Gaelic language. Fionn MacCumhail features heavily in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...