Charles MacLellan

Boy Drying Dishes, The Saturday Evening Post cover

1913

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left A woman and young boy are washing dishes together. Charles Leslie Thrasher was made famous by signing on for a long-term contract to paint every single weeks cover for Liberty Magazine. It was a back-breaking commitment to work at such a pace and an even greater challenge to come up with enough original cover ideas. The latter problem was partially solved by settling on a continuing story line, which followed a couple's courtship, marriage and children. It was a popular series, later made into a movie called "For the Love of Lil." His marriage provided the ingredients for it, and he served as his own model for the hero. As the presentation was humorous and light, the artwork tended to be lightweight, below the standards of his earlier cover work for The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, and his advertising illustrations Cream of Wheat, Fisk Tires...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 11, 1933

Medium: Oil on Canvas, Mounted Dimensions: 22.70" x 17.70" Signature: Signed Lower Right Advertisement, image of girl baking biscuits as boy and mother look on. An early 20th-cent...

Original cover for Collier's, published October 29, 1921 This striking original Collier's magazine cover depicts a young blonde boy in a red turtleneck, intently repairing a pocket ...

The classic hard luck, independent kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old here, selling the day’s papers out on the grubby streets of early 1900s New York City. He’s paused in a quiet spot, ap...

The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her. Signed lower...

Realistic mid century portrait of a boy playing with an antique toy car by Ralph Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" in the lower left ...

The creator of this charming fireside painting, American artist Henry Bacon (1832-1912) served in the American Civil War. And this painting dates to the period when Bacon first arriv...