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Vanderbilt Sleigh, Original holiday greeting card Christmas illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Vanderbilt Sleigh, Original holiday greeting card Christmas illustration featuring a couple
Category
1950s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
Chasing the Sleigh, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration featuring a snowy scene with dogs chasing a
Category
1950s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
Angels Holding Candles, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Angels Holding Candles, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
Medium: Watercolor
Category
20th Century Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor
House at an Angle, Original Holiday Greeting Card Christmas Illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Holiday Greeting Card Illustration featuring a snowy scene filled with horse-drawn sleighs
Category
20th Century Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gesso, Egg Tempera, Board
"The Bachelor Girls' Christmas, " Story Illustration
By Edmund Marion Ashe
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Bachelor Girls' Christmas." Illustration for unknown publication. Not dated.
Category
20th Century Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
This piece was produced as the cover art for
Category
1940s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Christmas Tree in Weathered Niche, Original holiday greeting card illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original holiday greeting card illustration of a Christmas Tree in a Weathered Niche against a
Category
1960s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
Christmas Tree, Original Holiday Greeting Card Illustration
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original holiday greeting card Illustration of a Christmas tree decorated with ornaments and bows
Category
1960s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gesso, Egg Tempera, Panel
Santa Claus Christmas Eve original Southern Air Transport Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed Original illustration of Santa Claus on what I imagine is Christmas Eve. He
Category
20th Century American Realist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gouache
A Christmas Number, Judge Magazine Cover
By John Holmgren
Located in Fort Washington, PA
December 1933 "Christmas Number" issue. Historical fantasy themes proved a popular escapist subject matter
Category
1930s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
'The Thief from François Villon's Christmas', San Francisco Bay Area Illustrator
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
titled, lower left, ''The Thief' - from Francois Villon's Christmas'. Mat dimensions: 16 x 13 inches
Category
1960s Realist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
'Sunny Afternoon, Summer Cottages', Louvre, École des Beaux-Arts, Michigan State
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
sites in the area, Christmas cards, advertising illustrations, art fairs, and the occasional group
Category
1980s Contemporary Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Drinking Tiger, Original Etching by Paul Jouve, circa 1930
By Paul Jouve
Located in Paris, FR
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L'Illustration, Christmas 1930.
Category
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Paper
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
preparations for a Christmas entertainment.[93] Brockman illustrations for nonfiction articles often focused on
Category
1930s American Impressionist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Oil
Dawn Greeting.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
, and Robinsons. Her designs included Christmas papers and cards, book illustrations, package design
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Acrylic
Statue of Young Boy in Fountain on the Plaza
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other publications.
From 1949 until 1951, as fewer commercial
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Conté
Peeking at the Christmas Tree, Probable Magazine Cover Illustration
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original illustration, likely produced as a magazine cover. The image features a child and his dog
Category
Mid-20th Century Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christmas Florist
By Charlotte Sternberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Egg Tempera on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1990s Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
All Wrapped Up in Christmas Saturday Evening Post cover, December 19, 1959
By Richard Dick Sargent
Located in New Orleans, LA
The iconic illustrations of Richard "Dick" Sargent have become an irreplaceable facet of the
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Mother and Child
By Claude Allin Shepperson
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Dickens, and especially his illustrations to A Christmas Carol and The Haunted Man, in the early twentieth
Category
20th Century Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Ink
Seven Zodiac Relief Signs, Artificial Stone, C. 1940
Located in Stockholm, SE
journalists' Christmas magazine as well as illustrations for the Saga Children's Library. Östlund was part of
Category
1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Cast Stone
Drawing of rural scene with crowd and mules
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
, commissioned Nesbitt to create illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other publications.
From 1949
Category
1990s American Realist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Pencil
Blind Beggar (pencil drawing made on streets of Kansas City in Depression)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
Standard Oil, commissioned Nesbitt to create illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Ink, Graphite
"SUNSET ON THE OLD STAGE TRAIL" STAGECOACH SCENE. CALIFORNIA / ARIZONA VIBRANT
By Marjorie Reed
Located in San Antonio, TX
designing of Christmas cards and with illustrations for the Mickey Mouse Beverage Company, affiliated with
Category
20th Century Impressionist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Oil
ROUGHY’S CHRISTMAS - Original Illustration 19 1/4" x 14 1/2"
By Diana Thorne
Located in Santa Monica, CA
DIANA THORNE (1895-1963) ROUGHY’S CHRISTMAS c. 1936
Original pen & ink illustration on board
Category
1930s Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Pen
Three Men Changing a Wheel
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other publications.
From 1949 until 1951, as fewer commercial
Category
1930s American Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Ink
Three Trees (original pencil drawing of southern landscape)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other publications.
From 1949 until 1951, as fewer commercial
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Old Chris (Portrait of a model who came to the Kansas City Art Institute in '41)
By Jackson Lee Nesbitt
Located in New Orleans, LA
, commissioned Nesbitt to create illustrations for calendars, Christmas cards, and other publications.
From 1949
Category
1950s American Modern Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
"WHEN EVENING COMES" NAVAJOS ARIZONA / CALIFORNIA
By Marjorie Reed
Located in San Antonio, TX
, Walter Stephen Reed, a commercial artist, whom she later assisted in the designing of Christmas cards and
Category
20th Century Impressionist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Oil
"HAPPY STAGING" STAGECOACH FRAMED 18.5 X 22.5
By Marjorie Reed
Located in San Antonio, TX
Stephen Reed, a commercial artist, whom she later assisted in the designing of Christmas cards and with
Category
20th Century Impressionist Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Oil
A Christmas Number
By John Holmgren
Located in Minneapolis, MN
December 1933 "Christmas Number" issue. Historical fantasy themes proved a popular escapist subject matter
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Michael O'Shaughnessy - A Guinness Christmas
By Michael O'Shaughnessy
Located in Pymble, AU
This is a rare original piece of commercial illustration for a Guinness advertisement by British
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Pastel, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
H 36.23 in W 27.37 in D 0.79 in
Two Bathers, Oil on Panel, Antoine Calbet
By Antoine Calbet
Located in Paris, FR
perhaps known today, however, for his book illustrations, having taken over the commissions of the Czech
Category
20th Century French Belle Époque Vintage Christmas Illustrations
Materials
Wood
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Vintage Christmas Illustrations For Sale on 1stDibs
Find a variety of vintage christmas illustrations available on 1stDibs. Browse a selection of modern, Impressionist or contemporary versions of these works for sale today — there are 14 modern, 7 Impressionist, 5 abstract, 2 Pop Art and 1 contemporary examples available. These items have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. Vintage christmas illustrations available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes beige, gray, brown, orange and more. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but G. Harvey, Diana Matthes, Joan Miró, Richard Sargent and Charles Robert Searles produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, watercolor and paper.
How Much are Vintage Christmas Illustrations?
Prices for pieces in our collection of vintage christmas illustrations start at $28 and top out at $310,000 with the average selling for $3,400.
Questions About Vintage Christmas Illustrations
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Generally, a hanging decoration suitable for decorating a tree is considered a vintage Christmas ornament if it is at least 40 years old. Ornaments made over 100 years ago are usually classified as antiques. You'll find a range of vintage Christmas ornaments on 1stDibs.