Antonio Petruccelli began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to creating 24 covers for Fortune magazine, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines, Petruccelli did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s through the 1960s.
“Tony was ‘Mr. Versatility’ for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,” said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Petrucelli won several important design awards. He designed a U.S. postage stamp commemorating the steel industry and designed the Bicentennial Medal for the Franklin Mint for the State of New Jersey.
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Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Cathedral Interior New Yorker Cover Proposal 1939 Jesus Church Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Cathedral New Yorker cover proposa...
Gouache, Board
$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
$1,200
H 12 in W 9 in D 0.1 in
Carrie Bradshaw says good bye. From the Art, Culture & Society series
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Ink, Watercolor
$12,500
H 16.25 in W 10.5 in
Art Deco, L'ombre d'une jeune fille en fleur, Elegant French Woman with Monkey
By Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Miami, FL
Perhaps a study or a preliminary work for for "L'ombre d'une jeune fille en fleur", Lot 46 - Christie's, New York (February 14, 2007) Private Collection, Miami Gouache and pencil...
Gouache
Southwest Living Room Interior Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed watercolor of a Santa Fe southwest style living room, full of vibrant Navajo patterned textiles, by unknown artist "West" (American, 20th Cen...
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
$25,000
H 11.5 in W 9.5 in
Vinoba Bhave, Time Magazine Cover Original Artwork Mahatma Gandhi Disciple
By Ernest Hamlin Baker
Located in Miami, FL
Masterfully conceived, designed, and rendered cover painting that ran on the cover of Time Magazine, May 11, 1953. Vinoba Bhave was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi. This work is a dual ...
Gouache, Illustration Board
$5,000
H 17.5 in W 24 in
Good Takings, American Western Art Gouache Painting on Board by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Good Takings, Year: 1991, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 x 2...
Gouache
$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
$538
H 10.25 in W 13 in
French Expressionist Interior Scene Man Seated At Table With Woman Ink Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Expressionist Interior Scene Man Seated At Table With Woman Ink Study Signature illegible but believed to read R. U. (signed and dated 1929) Medium: Ink wash and penci...
Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
$32,000
H 15 in W 11.5 in D 1 in
Harem with 14 Wives, Playboy Cartoon Black Cartoonist
By E. Simms Campbell
Located in Miami, FL
The first Black Illustrator, E. Simms Campbell, paints a complex comic narrative featuring an opulent harem with 14 wives/concubines. The artist caters to a man's fantasy by placing the male subject in the middle of a 360-degree ring of well-endowed beauties. Almost all of the women are chomping at the bit to see if she will be the lucky winner. Each portrait is painstakingly rendered to flaunt its well-endowed feminine charms with gravity-defying breasts. In the center of it all is the male protagonist, vicariously representing the viewer. He is depicted playing spin-the-bottle to see who will be his next lover of the moment. Visually, it's a delight to look at. Technically, it's masterfully designed, with curving shapes, bathed in soft light, and a mouthwatering purple color scheme. It may be one of Campbell's most ambitious efforts because it successfully conceives and executes a large scene populated with 16 people. As with all vintage cartoons...
Watercolor, Illustration Board, Pencil
$2,000
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.1 in
Lee Radziwill with Pink Peonies. From the Art, Culture & Society series
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
Rudy. From Art, culture & society series
By Manuel Santelices
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him. The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Watercolor, Charcoal, Pencil
Man looking into Window
By Everett Shinn
Located in Miami, FL
Original Magazine Illustration for a magazine like Harper's, Vanity Fair, Life, Look, and Judge Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School. He also exhibited with the short-lived group known as "The Eight," Work is framed in an attractive gilt frame Morris Weiss collection...
Acrylic Polymer, Gouache, Pencil, Watercolor