Fred Irvin

Expensive Taste, American Weekly Cover

1958

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 4, 1928. Having left her husband Sandy, Lil returns to the Morse family home with her two-month-old baby. Ma Morse worries abou...

Story illustration for "The Californians" by Louise Redfield Peattie, published in Cosmopolitan, February 1940, page 141. The magazine describes the story as "The brilliant saga of ...

Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of American Weekly Magazine, June 20, 1954

This piece was illustrated on the cover of four magazines: the May 28, 1957 issue of the Familie Journal, the May 1957 issue of Allers, the August 10, 1957 issue of HÖRZU, and the October 25, 1958 issue of Panorama. This illustration featuring two little girls side-by-side, both on the telephone, shows how much has changed between 1907 and 1957. Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...

Harold Town Untitled, 1973 Silkscreen and Lithograph. Pencil Signed. Dated. Numbered. Hand signed, dated and numbered by the artist on the front 39 1/4 × 27 1/2 inches Unframed Pencil signed and numbered from the limited edition of 55. De-accessioned from the Sears, Robuck & Co. art collection Harold Town (1924-1990) has been dubbed the "Picasso of Canada" for his ever-changing aesthetic and perennial creativity, and he exhibited widely throughout Canada. He is best known as a founding member of the Painters Eleven, having coined the term for this artistic group himself. The name refers to the eleven Abstract Expressionist artists who banded together in Toronto between 1953 and 1960: Tom Hodgson, Jack Bush, William Ronald, Alexandra Luke, Oscar Cahén, Jock MacDonald, Ray Mead...

Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Framed: No Condition: C: Several Signs of use and handling, some visible marks Add...

Dapper huntsman watercolour & gouache Art Sz: 10 1/4"H x 6 7/8"W Frame Sz: 19"H x 15"W w/ silver gilt frame

In this artwork the artist takes a child-like approach at depicting the subject using vibrant colors and painterly brushstrokes. Signed and titled on verso, GANG 2/1990.