William Haskell Coffin

Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 5, 1927

1927

Medium: Pastel on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Contact for exact dimensions. Used for the June 1921 Matropolitan Magazine Cover, and also as a calendar illustration, which wa...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right Collier's Magazine Cover, February 7 1914

Date: 1921 Medium: Pastel on Paper Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Satuday Evening Post Cover, November 12, 1921

Medium: Unknown Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover

Gaspar Camps, a talented Spanish poster artist and graphic designer, was known for his modernist approach to advertising. He emerged as one of the leading figures in the world of pos...

Art Deco Portrait “Gladys” – W\.E. Webster Lithograph, Dutch Edition 1922 Description: Delightful Art Deco portrait titled *Gladys*, created by British illustrator W\.E. Webster and...

Irving Ramsay Wiles, 1861-1948 A Fashionable Young Lady Oil on canvas 28 1/8 x 22 5/8 inches Signed lower right: Irving R Wiles Illustrator, teacher, and painter Irving Ramsey Wiles was adept at portraits, figural works, and landscapes characterized by the informal elegance of cosmopolitan American art at the turn of the twentieth century. Wiles received his earliest art instruction from his father, landscape painter and teacher Lemuel M. Wiles (1826–1905), and at the age of eighteen, in 1879, exhibited his first painting at New York’s prestigious National Academy of Design. After one year’s study at the Art Students League in New York, under the influential painter-teachers William Merritt Chase and J. Carroll Beckwith, Wiles went to Paris for further study. He enrolled in the Académie Julian, a popular school among American artists, and then worked in the studio of French academic painter Charles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran (1837–1917). During his student years Wiles painted watercolor street scenes of Paris, and he also traveled in Italy and in the French countryside. Wiles returned to New York in 1884 and exhibited two of his sketches. These attracted the notice of the art editor of the popular Century Magazine, who asked the young artist to make illustrations for the journal. Wiles’s illustrations appeared in other publications as well, and he also supported himself by teaching at his studio and at his father’s summer art school in upstate New York. Wiles was elected a member of the progressive Society of American Artists and, after one of his works won a prize there, to the National Academy of Design as an associate member; full membership followed in 1897. By that date, Wiles was able to devote himself more fully to portraits and figural compositions in oils, paintings that mark the influence of his teacher Chase, who remained a lifelong friend. Like his mentor, Wiles also worked in watercolor and pastel and belonged to several organizations devoted to those media, which enjoyed revivals in late-nineteenth-century America. He exhibited his work widely and won numerous awards throughout his career. In the late 1890s, Wiles and his father moved their summer classes to Peconic, on the North Fork of New York’s Long Island...

Elegant Portrait “Evelyn” – Art Deco Print by I.M. Cohen, Haagsche Post 1928 Lively and expressive portrait titled Evelyn, created by British artist I.M. Cohen R.O.I. (Royal Institu...