Al Hirschfeld "Beat the Band" New York Times Broadway Theatre Illustration 1940s
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) "Beat the Band" 22 x 26 1/2 inches ink on board published in The New York Times, October 11, 1942 The unframed work comes directly from the Al Hirschfeld F...
Ink, Board
Al Hirschfeld "Art Week" NYC illustration New York Times poster design 1940
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in New York, NY
Poster design for National Art Week, November, 1940. In collaboration the Al Hirschfeld Foundation Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishi...
Paper, Mixed Media
$12,500
H 17 in W 12.75 in D 2 in
Pin Up Girl in Red Dress, Mid-Century, Female Artist
By Pearl Frush
Located in Miami, FL
The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...
Watercolor, Illustration Board
$495,000
H 51.25 in W 39.25 in
Lo, I am Black - American Figurative Work on Paper, c. 1967
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Charles White’s "Lo I Am Black” (c. 1967) is a powerful, large-scale charcoal drawing that exemplifies the artist’s unwavering commitment to figuration and social consciousness at a ...
Charcoal, Crayon, Board
$15,500
H 15 in W 19 in D 1.5 in
Two American Old Western Watercolor Painting Ink & Pencil Drawings Cowboy Horses
By Edward (John Edward) Borein
Located in Portland, OR
Two rare, early, original artworks by American Southwest artist, John Edward Borein (1873–1945). A watercolor painting of a mounted cowboy or vaquero, the other of a vaquero driving ...
Watercolor, Pen, Pencil, Paper
$25,000
H 28.5 in W 35.5 in D 1.5 in
"Dilworth Street" 1940 by Allan Rohan Crite Watercolor Boston African American
By Allan Rohan Crite
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: A superb example from Crite’s celebrated Neighborhood Series, this work is both a vibrant portrait of everyday life and an irreplaceable record of a vanished Boston ...
Watercolor, Board, Graphite
“Winter Evening”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival Molvin arches paper by the well known American illustrator Fred Sweney. The scene depicts Central Park in New York City in a winter landsc...
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
$3,500
H 18.75 in W 8.38 in
Female Fashion Illustrator Mid Century Pen and Ink
Located in Miami, FL
This deftly rendered mid-20th-century ink drawing on paper board was apparently done on assignment for a fashion brand that was most likely published in a newspaper or catalog. Signe...
Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board
$495
H 32 in W 22 in
Antique American Drawing Football Player Monogrammed Original Frame early 20th C
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original charcoal drawing of a football player in his uniform circa 1910. This work is initialed what appears to be "e.w." with the phrase "1/2 hr" written below. We have not be...
Paper, Charcoal
Self Portrait, of the Gentleman himself
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
A simply marvelous drawing - a self-portrait of the artist himself. It also reads as a very elegant and expressive line drawing of any gentleman - a hallmark depiction of a bon-vi...
Archival Paper, Graphite
$850
H 5.75 in W 19.75 in
Rare 1950s Original Syndicated Ink Drawing Cartoon Strip Susie Q Smith Comic Art
By Jerry Walter & Linda Walter
Located in Surfside, FL
SUSIE Q. SMITH Medium: Newspaper comics Distributed by: King Features Syndicate First Appeared: 1945 Creators: Linda and Jerry Walter 5.75 X 19.75 Dated August 3, 1954 in top right corner. Like her contemporaries, Aggie Mack, Candy and Patsy Walker (before her conversion to a superhero), Susie Q. Smith was a female Archie-type — not exactly an imitator, because Archie, who had started only four years earlier, hadn't yet become popular enough to spawn imitators, but part of his genre. She attended high school, where her teachers often seemed unreasonable to her, interacted with the opposite gender in a typically adolescent way, and her parents didn't completely understand her. And she was cute and perky as only a teenage girl can be. Susie was the star of a comic strip distributed by King Features, the biggest of the comic strip syndicates, whose other offerings have ranged from Jackys Diary to Prince Valiant...
Paper, Ink
$4,600
H 23.5 in W 35.63 in
Four Principles of Democracy, American Scene, Social Realist Patriotism
Located in Marco Island, FL
A rare and ambitious work from one of Ohio’s most distinctive mid-century painters, Principles of Democracy is an extraordinary four-panel watercolor composition that functions as a ...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
$350
H 3.5 in W 5.63 in
Schooners along the Hudson, West Point Academy in the distance.
Located in Middletown, NY
A serene Hudson River scene by a student of Louis Comfort Tiffany. Anna May Walling was born in 1881, a native of Goshen, New York. She was a graduate of the Blair Academy, and Prat...
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
$12,000
H 17.75 in W 15.25 in D 2 in
“Untitled (Gun Study D-309), 1993” Body Hammer Series Drawing Signed Glock 19
By Robert Longo
Located in Yardley, PA
Emerging in the late twentieth century with his celebrated “Men in the Cities” series, Robert Longo quickly established himself as a draftsman of rare discipline, transforming media ...
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil, Graphite
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H 65.5 in W 54 in
Rare Edward Fields "Geisha with Fan" Al Hirschfeld Tapestry Rug
By Albert Al Hirschfeld
Located in Surfside, FL
Very Rare Hand Woven Wool Tapestry Rug Carpet produced by the Edward Fields workshops. This was written up in an article in New York magazine in the 1970s. (this is a pile weave not a flat weave like an Aubusson.) From Hirschfeld's Japanese Kabuki Theatre series; Signed EF and Hirschfeld Albert Al Hirschfeld, American (1903 - 2003) was born in St. Louis in 1903. The family moved forthwith to New York. Soon he was enrolled at the Art Student's League. Hirschfeld has never had to convince anyone that he's a genius; it has always been apparent. By the ripe old age of 17, while his contemporaries were learning how to sharpen pencils, Hirschfeld became an art director at Selznick Pictures. He held the position for about four years and then in 1924 he moved to Paris to work, lead the Bohemian life, and grow a beard. In 1943, Hirschfeld married one of Europe's most famous actresses, the late Dolly Haas. They were married for more than 50 years—in addition, they produced Nina. Nina is their daughter, and Hirschfeld has engaged in the "harmless insanity," as he calls it, of hiding her name at least once in each of his drawings. It's interesting, I think, that although Hirschfeld was initially attracted to sculpture and painting, this gave way to his passion for pure line."Sculpture, he once said to me, is a drawing you trip over in the dark. I believe that Hirschfeld's devotion to line comes from yet a more fundamental aesthetic - his respect for absolute simplicity. "When I'm rushed I do a complicated drawing. When I have the time, I do a simple one." In 1991, Al Hirschfeld became the first artist in history to have his name on a U.S. Postage Stamp Booklet when the United States Postal Service released the five stamps they commissioned Hirschfeld to design. The stamps portray Laurel & Hardy, Jack Benny, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy...
Wool