Peter Driben

Eavesdropping

1940s

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Sight Size 18.50" x 18.00", Framed 21.50" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover for Harper's Bazar, published June 1910 One of America's greatest illustrators, Jessie Willcox Smith attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and studied under Thomas Eakins in Philadelphia, graduating in 1888. A year later, she found work in the production department of the Ladies' Home Journal, for five years. After that, she continued her art education with classes under Howard Pyle, first at Drexel and then at the Brandywine School. Smith then established her reputation, illustrating stories and articles for Century, Collier's Weekly, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's,Scribner's, and the Ladies' Home Journal. Smith was closely associated with the artists Elizabeth Shippen Green and Violet Oakley, who also studied with Pyle, and the group became known as "the Red Rose Girls...

The illustration shows a young bride and groom at their wedding table above an older couple sitting down for a nice formal dinner. Probable Family Herald Magazine Illustration, May 1957 Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed on Verso Contact for dimensions. Maxfield Parrish created the present work as a playbill to commemorate a performance of Ivanhoe, whi...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Annie W. Franchot, Bobs, King of the Fortunate Isle, New York, 1928, frontispiece illustration LITERATURE: Edward D. Nu...

Dan Parry-Jones – Swimmer with Orange Armbands Mixed Media on Panel 38.5 x 38.5 in (80 x 80 cm) White custom frame included "Swimmer with Orange Armbands" is a striking mixed-media...

Packed with colour and texture, "No Signal", by British contemporary artist Dan Parry-Jones captures a fleeting urban moment with cinematic intensity. A solitary woman walks through ...

Dan Parry-Jones – Cornwall Beach Mixed Media on Panel 47.2 x 31.5 in (120 x 80 cm) White frame included In "Cornwall Beach," British contemporary artist Dan Parry-Jones distills th...

No. 217 is a unique painting by contemporary artist Hongyu Zhang. The painting is made with Indian ink, acrylic, pastel and engraving on grey cardboard mounted on canvas, dimensions ...