Richard Sargent

Boy Blowing his Trumpet at a Birthday Dinner

1952

Medium: 1958 Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50" Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...

Original Holiday Greeting Card Illustration featuring a snowy scene filled with horse-drawn sleighs at Christmastime Medium: Egg Tempera on Gesso Board Charlotte Joan Sternberg was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1920. Early on, she became interested in art, and her parents encouraged her efforts. She attended public schools in the area, as well as taking art classes at the technical school. Afterwards, she attended the Yale School of Art. Her fellow classmates included Rudolph Zallinger, who executed the dinosaur mural at the Peabody Museum in New Haven; Jean Day Zallinger, renowned book illustrator; and Edward Paier, founder of the Paier College of Art. It was there that she became interested in egg tempera, and most of her well-known artwork was done in this medium. She was one of a number of Yale artists who revived this medium.(She did not work professionally in oils, although she sometimes used gouache or watercolor.) She went on to a long career in commercial illustration. She worked extensively for J.Walter Thompson, doing advertising art for such companies as Esso (later Exxon), Textron, and Lederle pharmaceuticals. While she did a variety of subjects, she was best known for her Americana themes, particularly snow scenes of historic New England. Many of these pieces were published as Christmas cards for American Artists Group. She also taught for many years at the Paier College of Art. She also did a number of limited edition prints for Greenwich Workshop. Her art is used on such items as tapestry pillows, puzzles, and decorative flags. She was commissioned to do several portraits, including those of Gov.John...

This piece was illustrated on the cover of four magazines: the May 28, 1957 issue of the Familie Journal, the May 1957 issue of Allers, the August 10, 1957 issue of HÖRZU, and the October 25, 1958 issue of Panorama. This illustration featuring two little girls side-by-side, both on the telephone, shows how much has changed between 1907 and 1957. Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...

Medium: Tempera on Board Illustration of a baseball player's dusty crash to a field base as seen out of the corner of a television set.

Gorgeous pointillist egg tempera portrait of young blonde girl by Robert Joseph Collins (American, 1922-2011), 1947. Signed "Collins" and dated "'47." U...

This work celebrates the customs and folklore of Indigenous People / Eskimo native life. Illustrator Gianni Benvenuti shows a partially clothed Eskimo man lying on his back in a tran...

Once The Master - Mid Century Figurative Landscape "Once the Master" a portrait of a Zuni Master Potter in contrast with the emergent modernism around him. He is beneath an adobe an...

ADAM NIEMCZYC (born in 1914) Painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist. He practiced easel, mural painting and book illustration. Since 1958 he participated in numerous exhibitions in ...