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Period: Early 1900s
Bed-Time, Scribners Monthly Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1902
Medium: Charcoal, Watercolor and Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 23.50" x 15.50", Framed 31.50" x 23.00"
Bed-Time, published...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Illustration Board, Oil, Watercolor
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's narrative poem The Courtship of Miles Standish originally published in 1858 tells the story of the love triangle between Joh...
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Wyoming Telegraph Road
By John Berkey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Ready and Waiting
Located in London, GB
Ink & Watercolour
Image size: 4 x 5 1/2 inches (10 x 14 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Standing Woman
By Charles Allan Gilbert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Woman standing in a gown.
Signed and dated lower left.
Charles Allan Gilbert chose art as a career after discovering his talent while sketching during a childhood as invalid. Following training at the Art Students League, he went to Paris while his teachers were Constant and Laurens. He returned to the U.S to begin a very successful illustration career, with a special aptitude for the portrayal of beautiful young women. Their portraits were included in several gift books...
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Other Art Style Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Board, Color
The Charming Ghost
Located in London, GB
Ink and watercolour
Image size: 3 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (9.5 x 14.5 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Portrait par Edmond Theodor VAN HOVE (1853-1913)
Located in Gent, VOV
Portrait of a man. Oil painting on canvas, signed and located "Roubaix, 1906".
In this portrait, all attention is focused on the face, which is intrusively and self-consciously looking ahead. Except for the white collar and pocket handkerchief...
Category
Realist Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,672 Sale Price
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“Ye Lorde of Misrule” Triptych for the story “Perdita’s Christmas”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Perdita’s Christmas” by Richard Le Gallienne for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 7, 1901, page 4.
The narrater centers the story around Perdit...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor, Gouache
The Honeymoon, The Ladies World Magazine Cover, October 1908
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board with Collage
Signature: Initialed Lower Center
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
The Organ Grinder, Collier's Magazine, April 25th, 1905
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Illustration for "Da Strit Pianna" by Wallace Irwin, Collier's Magazine April 25th, 1905
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906
Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Gondola on a Venetian Canal
By Albert Duprat
Located in London, GB
ALBERT FERDINAND DUPRAT 1882-1974
Venice 1882 - 1974 (Italian/French)
Title: Gondola on a Venetian Canal, 1904
Technique: Original Signed and Dated...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yankee Doodle Girls, Original Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Date: 1900
Dimensions: 30.00" x 14.00"
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Paint
The Grand Entrance
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A woman in a gown linking arms with a man, two men behind them.
Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early reputation when he ac...
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Portrait of a Slum Boy Ashcan School
Located in Miami, FL
Signed upper right
Private Collection
Luks was famous for painting people from impoverished slum areas.
The work was most likely painted from life and portrays a youth haphazardly dressed. Luks describes the subject in quick rapid-fire brush...
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Ashcan School Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover, August 1905
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A mother watches as her daughter rides a donkey
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover, August 1905
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Soldiers in Combat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Probably a magazine cover for a Munsey’s pulp, ca. 1905.
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
President Cleveland, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Laid to Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 20, 1908
Edward Penfield produced some of America’s finest posters. His clean style and large silhouetted shapes resulted from much careful preliminary refinement and elimination of detail. Horses and coaches were a favorite subject with him, as typified with his picture of the colonial Post Road. A notable series of his illustrations were contained in his book, Holland Sketches...
Category
Other Art Style Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
"Sampson Rock of Wall Street" Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published October 13, 1906
Gruger illustrated only three post covers throughout his career. This was the second one completed.
Artwor...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
Lady
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Lady
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bowling Match, 1905
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Music Playing Cupids
By Albertine Whelan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Soleil couchant à Veere, 1906
Located in BLARICUM, NL
Theo Van Rysselberghe
Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var
Soleil couchant à Veere, 1906
Ondergaande zon te Veere
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm.
Signed and dated: lower left with monogram ‘06’
Provenance: Private collection, Belgium; Sotheby’s, New York, auct. 12 November 1988, cat. no. 326; Hammer Gallery, auct. 1 February 1986; private collection, Israel; Campo, Antwerp, October 1978; Campo, Antwerp, 17 October 1977; Palais Galliéra...
Category
Impressionist Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
The Vigil-at-Arms, Illustration for a poem published in Scribner's Magazine 1904
Located in Fort Washington, PA
The Vigil-at-Arms, illustration for a poem by William Lucius Graves published in Scribner's Magazine, December 1904
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carriage of Travertine - Oil on Canvas by Giuseppe Raggio - 1901
Located in Roma, IT
Important work by one of the leading artists of the italian naturalism, influenced by Giovanni Fattori as well as the the Barbizon School in France.
Provenience: Collection of the Qu...
Category
Naturalistic Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Feeding Time
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul E. Harney, Jr.
"Feeding Time" 1909
Oil on Wood Panel
Signed and Dated
Panel Size: approx 8 x 12 inches
Framed Size: approx. 16 x 19 inches
Paul Harney (1850-1915)
Born in New ...
Category
American Realist Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Price Upon Request
Which One? Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 30.00" x 27.00"
Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 31, 1908.
Exhibitions:
It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
The National Arts Club NYC Jan 6- 19 2013
Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014
Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous and prolific illustrators of his time and painted one less cover for The Saturday Evening Post than Norman Rockwell. He was the creator of the cherubic New Year’s Baby and the handsome Arrow Shirt Man who set the style for men’s fashion for decades.
In addition to his beautiful men, women and children, Leyendecker’s covers and advertisements depicted subjects ranging from sports to war to politics. This 1908 Post cover shows a young newsboy holding pictures of William Howard Taft...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 29.25" x 21.00", Framed 44.00" x 35.00"
The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover, January 19, 1907
Leyendecker,...
Category
American Modern Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
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