Joseph Farrelly

Girl at the Sink

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned, stamped "The estate of/ EDMUND F. WARD" on the stretcher, with a partial composition on the reverse. Provenance: Through the artists estate

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left A woman and young boy are washing dishes together. Charles Leslie Thrasher was made famous by signing on for a long-term contract to paint every single weeks cover for Liberty Magazine. It was a back-breaking commitment to work at such a pace and an even greater challenge to come up with enough original cover ideas. The latter problem was partially solved by settling on a continuing story line, which followed a couple's courtship, marriage and children. It was a popular series, later made into a movie called "For the Love of Lil." His marriage provided the ingredients for it, and he served as his own model for the hero. As the presentation was humorous and light, the artwork tended to be lightweight, below the standards of his earlier cover work for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and his advertising illustrations Cream of Wheat, Fisk Tires...

Original cover for Collier’s, published March 17, 1928. This Collier’s cover humorously captures the early challenges of married life, particularly those found in the kitchen. It fe...

Medium: Color Pencil on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right A pin-up study.

Portrait of a young woman in the bathroom, painted with oil and gold leaf on paper. The artwork is is 14 x 11 inches. And it is newly and professionally framed with all museum materi...

Signed "C. VENARD" at lower right Overall dimensions, including the frame, are 33 3/4 x 18 1/4 inches

Initialed by the artist MR lower left. Manuel Robbe was born in Paris in 1872 to a Northern French family from the town of Berthune. He studied etching and painting and became an ac...

Work on canvas Dimensions with frame 99 x 82.5 x 4 cm Lady at Her Toilette This refined painting, signed at the bottom right, depicts a nude woman seen from behind, preparing herself...