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Liberty Magazine Cover, January 26, 1929
By Leslie Thrasher
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Liberty magazine, January 26, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
By Ed Tadiello
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
32° Mason
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Mom and dad are very proud of their son becoming a 32-degree mason, and have presented him with his lamb skin apron which signifies purity. Notice the finite detail and colors that made James Calvert Smith...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Grandfather Helps with Knitting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Audience, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 28, 1956.
The Post described, “The cows don't realize it is rude t...
Category
1950s Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Goodyear Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The First Flag Raising
By Frank Schoonover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June
# 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hide Rack
By Frank Schoonover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Hide Rack
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Sloop Dropped Anchor Near the Upper End of the Harbor
By Frank Schoonover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and dated lower right: Frank E. Schoonover / 33. Inscribed on the reverse: Chapter 6 127 / 1967
The Crimson Cutlass interior book illustratio...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gauguin, 3/100
By Shelley C. Schoneberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Center, Inscribed at Bottom of Image
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Breugel, 3/25
By Shelley C. Schoneberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid Down to Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is an illustration for the book by Samual McChord Crothers, The Children of Dickens, originally published in 1925. Bob Cratchit first appeared in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as the victimized clerk of cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge. Timothy Cratchit, also known as Tiny Tim...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
Two Young Girls
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Head Tide, Good Housekeeping, Story Illustration
By Mead Schaeffer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A close friend of Norman Rockwell, Mead Schaeffer focused his early career on illustrations for classic, historical, and adventure novels, including Moby Dick, The Count of Monte Christo, and King Arthur and His Knights. The featured lot, a masterpiece of political intrigue, was published as a story illustration for Joseph C...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modeling Dress, Cereal Advertisement
By Richard Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Violin Practice, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Richard Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1955
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 24.00" x 18.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1955.
The Post ...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Soldier and Girl
By Walter G. Ratterman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lovers
By Walter G. Ratterman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed on the Back
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
House Enchanted
By Walter G. Ratterman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed on the Back
House Enchanted
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Murder Scene
By Walter G. Ratterman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fadeaway Girl, Good Housekeeping Cover
By Clarence Coles Phillips
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 19.00", Framed 37.00"x 28.00"
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
A Dark Futurist
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Initialed lower right: M.P.
Signed on the reverse: Maxfield Parish
Initialed and numbered by the artist's son on the reverse: M.P. Jr. / No. 68.
When Maxfield Parrish painted the comical A Dark Futurist in 1923 for Life magazine, he had already established himself as America's leading book and magazine illustrator. His early artwork for children's classics like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days (1900), and Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) popularized his signature atmospheric settings, cobalt blue-and-gold palette, and dreamy figures inhabiting magical worlds. Likewise, his covers for Century, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, and Scribner's Magazine were highly desirous and instantly recognizable, often more stylized than his book imagery; no other journal illustrator could match Parrish's winning combination of precise draftsmanship, strong graphic design, and amusing characters.
According to David Apatoff, Art Critic, The Saturday Evening Post, "Parrish abandoned his customary heavy details and rainbow colors to present a bolder, more high-contrast design silhouetted against a stark white background - a treatment more suitable for a modern magazine cover vying for attention on a crowded newsstand.
A Dark Futurist is silhouetted against a white field with no background or details to prop it up. The composition is carefully centered with only differences in the hands and the artist's necktie to break the symmetry. These are crucial to the success of the design.
Just as important as Parrish's clean, high-contrast style in these pictures is the refreshing humor and sophistication in content, which is usually absent from Parrish's fairytale paintings.
A Dark Futurist shows us a different kind of modernism. Parrish steps out of his timeless fairy tales to tweak one of the most incendiary artistic movements of his day. Futurism, with its militant manifesto and its outspoken artists, was all the rage in Europe. Parrish pokes them, showing a "dark" and anxious futurist with pursed lips and thick glasses, poised to paint but not exactly sure of, or optimistic about, what the 'future' will hold. This suggests that Parrish was alert to, and had opinions about, current events of the day - something one might never guess from his usual subject matter."
In his early Collier's illustrations, Parrish also developed memorable themes that he would return to in his 1920s magazine work. One of his most popular characters was the "seer," or man with keen visual powers, most often depicted as an artist, but also appearing as a tourist, scientist, and philosopher. Parrish's seer was recognizable by particular physical attributes: round glasses, indicating his visual and analytical acuity, and an overcoat and/or hat signifying his role as observer of the outside world.
A Man of Letters, sold last year at Heritage Auctions, was one of the first Life covers Parrish rolled out for Gibson, and he repeated the character of the artist-seer, emphasizing the comic spin, for two later editions: A Dark Futurist (Life, March 1, 1923) captures a Parrish-like artist in foggy round glasses and a long green coat...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Panel
Lumberjacks
By Herbert Paus
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Unknown
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for dimensions.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mask and Wig
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Signed ‘Parrish’ (On the Reverse)
Finished painting done as a prototype for the mural at the University of Pennsylvania
LITERATURE
L.S. Cutler ...
Category
1890s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
The Rawhide Part III
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Mounted to Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right, Signed Again and Dated August of 1904 on Reverse
The Rawhide Part III, 'He swung himself into the saddle and rode away.'
Signed with initials M·P...
Category
Early 1900s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Board
The Knave of Hearts: List of Characters
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed
Sight Size 20.13" x 16.38", Framed 26.00" x 23.00"
Maxfield Parrish’s popularity as an illustrator began with his early work for magazine publishers. An Easter 1895 cover for Harper’s Bazaar, one of the leading publications of the day, was followed by a successful foray into book illustration beginning in 1897 when Parrish completed illustrations for Frank Baum’s Mother Goose in Prose. His unique style and vivid imagination were well suited to illustrating children’s literature and resulted in numerous commissions. The List of Characters is one of 26 paintings, which appeared as an illustration in Louise Saunders' book, The Knave of Hearts. Lawrence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler write, “The last book Parrish illustrated, The Knave of Hearts (1924), was his masterpiece. When Parrish discovered this children’s play, he proposed an illustrated edition to Scribner’s, to which the publisher enthusiastically agreed …It was written by Louise Saunders, who was the wife of Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner’s, an important editor in the 20th century and discoverer of authors Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. The couple were summer residents at Cornish and close friends of the Parrishes” (Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 172). According to Coy Ludwig, “The artist’s enthusiasm was shared by the publisher, who requested sketches or more precise information upon which to base a cost analysis, as final approval could not be given until the costs were estimated. Parrish prepared an elaborate dummy or mock-up of the proposed publication, complete with watercolor sketches of the illustrations, and sent it to the publisher early in 1921 …The twenty-six paintings for The Knave of Heartswere executed within three years, and the book, a sumptuous production, was published on October 2, 1925… The volume, selling for ten dollars, was packaged in a telescoping box...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fuel Oil Delivery
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Hearth And Home Magazine Cover
By Florence E. Nosworthy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 21, 1915
By Guernsey Moore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Framed 37.00" x 29.00"
Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 21, 1915
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Street Scene
By Manobla
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: 3D Framed Sculpture
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Midsummer Moon, 1950s
By Robert Maguire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Summer Love
By Robert Maguire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Summer Love by Robert Maguire
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Another Woman' Story Illustration
By Andrew Loomis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ladies Home Journal, December 1939, pg 31. Illustration for Mary Hastings Bradley "Another Woman"
"The kiss had been less casual...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
New Year's Baby Hitching to War
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post unpublished cover, 1943
The story behind the New Year's Baby Hitching to War is a fascinating one: The...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Policeman and School Children, SEP Cover, Oct. 3, 1931
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, October 3, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Washington, Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, February 25, 1939
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 34" x 30"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Cover Illustration for the February 16, 1924 issue of The Country Gentleman...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Three Old Salts, Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1, 1932
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 30.00" x 22.00", Framed 38.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1, 1932.
Exhibitions: Christi...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Men Admiring Woman in Pink
By Raymond Johnson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned
Contact for dimensions.
Three Men Admiring Woman in Pink
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Broadcast Studio
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spring Carrying Out Winter, Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stealing The Funnies, Collier's Magazine Cover, 1923
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 29.00" x 21.00", Framed 35.00" x 27.00"
Collier's Magazine Cover, October 20, 1923
Category
1920s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Defense on the Sea Begins on the Shore
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"Defense on the sea begins on the shore." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industr...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Defense in the Air Begins on the Ground
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Initialed 'RI' Lower Right
"Defense in the air begins on the ground." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industry--The Arsenal of De...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Boy and Collie
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Canvas
Calendar Illustration, Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company of Juniet, Illinois
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
Far East Adventure Stories Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Action Adventure East of Suez, Far East Adventure Stories Cover Illustration, March 20, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Boy with Cat at the Door
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
The Porter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Provenance, The Executive V.P. office of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Category
1940s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boating Pier
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Contact for exact dimensions.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Paris Street Scene
By Ari Gradus
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fishermen Battling Heavy Seas
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
fishermen battling high seas
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Below the Falls, " USRD Magazine Illustration, 1978
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Painting
Signature: Unsigned
August 1978 USRD Magazine
"Below the Falls" (angler's Paradise)
Category
1970s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Give Him a Second Chance?
By Michael Dolas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Probable magazine illustration of a woman contemplating a bouquet and letter, for unknown publication.
Inscribed, signe...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Pretty Woman with a St. Bernard
By Warren B. Davis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Unknown
Signature: Unknown
Likely an illustration for a Gerlach Barklow Calendar
This oil on canvas painting was created by Warren B. Davis. Davis was known for painting pretty women. This painting of a pretty woman...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bobbies and Crowds Gathered in Industrial Setting
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Story illustration for “The Stars Look Down” by A.J. Cronin, illustrated by Cornwell and W. Smithson Broadhead...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
(Untitled)
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Golden to the Winds” by Achmed Abdullah, Good Housekeeping
By Daniel Content
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29"
Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33
Biography:
Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum.
Exhibited:
Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students
South Dakota Art...
Category
1920s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas