Julia Lambright

Pink Duet

2022

Julia Lambright Smokefall Soft pastel on pastel board Image size: 11” x 13.5” Framed size: 17” x 21” 2022

Julia Lambright A Quiet Moment Soft pastel on pastelmat Image size: 17” x 13.5” Framed size: 25” x 21” 2023

Julia Lambright Spring Cut Soft pastel on pastelmat Image size: 17” x 12.5” Framed size: 19” x 14.5” 2023

Julia Lambright Misty Lace Soft pastel on pastelmat Image size: 12.5” x 17.5” Framed size: 19.5” x 25.5” 2023

Julia Lambright Frostkiss Soft pastel on pastelmat Image size: 9” x 12” Framed size: 10.5” x 14” 2023

Julia Lambright Before Night Soft pastel on pastel board Image size: 9.5” x 8” Framed size: 17” x 15.5” 2023

June 1925 McCalls magazine 'To the Girls of St. Agnes Seminary' Neysa Moran McMein – later Mrs. John Baragwanath – wanted, as a girl in Quincy, Illinois, to be a musician. Although she changed her mind and attended the Art Institute of Chicago, she paid her way through school by writing music and playing piano in a ten-cent store. During World War I, she went to France under the auspices of the YMCA, and entertained the troops with her singing and piano accompaniment to showings of Winsor McCay’s animated film “Gertie the Dinosaur”. She painted her first McCall’s magazine cover in 1923, and for many years made pastel portraits of beautiful or notable young women for McCall’s monthly issues, as well as occasional covers for the Woman’s Home Companion, McClure’s, Photoplay, and The Saturday Evening Post. She also regularly contributed her drawings to the annual New York Times’ Hundred Neediest Cases. McMein was equally noted as a hostess and friend of such notables as Alexander Woollcott, Irving Berlin, Marc Connolly, Ben Lillie, Irene Castle...

Portrait of young William Lancaster Signed lower right

Calendar Illustration- Little baby holding onto toes Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company Signed lower left Adelaide Hiebel was born in New Hope Wisconsin in 1886. She studied at the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1919 Hiebel was an art instructor when her friend and mentor Zula Kenyon...

Signed Lower Center by artist. Colliers Magazine Cover, July 5, 1924

Medium: Oil and Pastel Painting on Canvas Dimensions: 14.00" x 22.00" Signature: Unsigned

Inscribed and Signed Lower Right "To / Olive Godwin / Neysa McMein" "Looking Into the Mirror." Cover for Woman's Home Companion, published June 1938, with their stamp on verso. Past...