1920s Paintings

Magazine Story Illustration most likely for Cosmopolitan or Woman's Home Companion. Caption: "'I will not heed these old ones,' said the maid. 'Let us flee together somewhere and ...

Émile Valentin Cardinal French, 1883–1958 Aux Cafe Oil on canvas 25 by 21 in. W/frame 34 by 30 in. Emile exhibited at the Salons in Paris b...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 15.50" x 11.25", Framed 23.00" x 22.00" Original Cover Illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 2, 1925.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Advertisement, Cream of Wheat, 1929.

Signed and dated 1924 upper right Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work. Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso Original period frame Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce

Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 40.25" x 30.00;" Framed Dimensions: 49.25" x 39.25" The Pictorial Review interior illustration, August 1925-January 1926

Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration for "The Number One Boy" by John Taintor Foote, appearing in The Saturday Evening Post for May 20th, 1922. Caption: "It will be hard to m...

Date: 1923 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 32.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Advertisement for Cream of Wheat cereal

Provenance: Illustration House, New York, Framed in a simple and modest frame. This is a brilliant post-Cubist work by Dutch-American illustrator Charles Verschuuren...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Satuday Evening Post Cover, May 30, 1925.

JANKEL ADLER 1895-1949 Lodz 1895-1949 London (Polish / British) Title: Still Life with Fish and Bottle, circa 1920's Technique: Original Signed Oil, Sand and Gouache on board...

CERVETO RIBA Antonio (1876-1938) "The swing" Oil on canvas signed low right Gault frame (Paris) Dim canvas : 60 X 80 cm Dim frame : 81 X 102 cm CERVETO RIB...

Provenance: Illustration House, New York, Framed in a simple and modest metal frame. This is a brillant post-Cubist work by Dutch-American illustrator Charles Verschuuren...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 38.25" x 29.25", Framed 45" x 35" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, June 13, 1925 Edmund Davenport was a New Yorker and a successful illustrator in the 1920’s. He painted covers for Women’s Home Companion and The Saturday Evening Post, and at the same time, he worked in the art department of Paramount Studios. At the time of this publication, a young woman’s graduation from college was a rare accomplishment, and the opportunities for employment that required a college diploma, were even rarer. Nevertheless, it was a good reason for this pretty, young woman to be sitting on top of the world in the vicinity of “cloud nine.” “Top of the World” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on June 13, 1925. Exhibited: Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 A luminous and rare Golden Age of Illustration cover...

Country Gentleman, Magazine Cover, June 21, 1924 Joseph Francis Kernan was a sportsman all of his life and the majority of his subjects featured, as he described it, "the human side of outdoor sports, hunting, fishing and dogs." These were the ideal subjects for magazine covers and his work appeared on all of the major - and some minor- magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Liberty, The Country Gentlemen, Capper's Farmer, The Elks, Outdoor Life, and The Associated Sunday Magazines. His work was also commissioned for calendars, and advertisers such as Fisk Tires, International...

Medium: Oil and Gold Paint on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 19.00" x 16.00" Oval, Framed 24.00" x 21.00" April. 1920 Good Houseke...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 26, 1929. After the passing of Sandy’s Great-Uncle Ulysses, Sandy and Lil walk around the cluttered brownstone mansion he left...

Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Vignette for an unknown publication, with Scientific Engraving Company labels on verso

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right The Boys of Today Are the Men of Tomorrow, Cream of Wheat Advertisement, 1926.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed on the Back Woman Seated, Likely Magazine Cover

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned "'I love you both,' she faltered. 'I can't, I just can't think of marrying one of you for the sadness of losing the other.'" Illustration f...

Date: 1920s Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00", Framed 24.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

“Choosing the Love Nest: Lil and Sandy Find a Cozy Spot for Their Bungalow of Dreams,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published June 18, 1927 Lil and Sa...

Date: 1929 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Dimensions: 30.00" x 19.00" Study for "Find the Woman" (Cosmopolitan Magazine) Artist biographical not...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 2, 1926 Sandy glowers as he sits at the table watching his rival Babe Dolan, the athletic lifeguard, flirt with Lil. Lil is entranced as Babe promises to make her a champion swimmer and the two are oblivious to the arrival of the waiter with the check, which Sandy reluctantly pays with nearly all of the remaining money in his wallet. (Liberty magazine, October 2, 1926, p. 54) This cover illustration was produced right after Liberty ceased their title contest for readers. “For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family” In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...

Date: 1926 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty magazine cover, November 6, 1926

Satyr and Pan Life Magazine Cover, April 26, 1923 Benjamin Sayre Cory Kilvert was the son of the mayor of his birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, in Canada. Kilvert migrated to New ...

This illustration shows a grandmother and daughter baking together. Baking Advertisement An early 20th-century illustrator working in New York City, Lawrence L Wilbur should not b...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 7, 1926 Robert (Pop) Morse returns home from his work at the real estate office after the successful sale of a corner lot on Ma...

Calendar Illustration: Image of Indian mother and children. Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company Adelaide Hiebel was born in New Hope Wisconsin in 1886. She studied at the Art Institute in Chicago. In 1919 Hiebel was an art instructor when her friend and mentor Zula Kenyon...

Date: 1920 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right 1920 Cosmopolitan - page 63 of cornwell book Nicknamed "The Dean of Illustrators" by his peers. A cartoonist at 18 for Louisville Herald. By 1911 he was in the Chicago Tribune's Art department while studying at the city's Art Institute. In 1915, a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt Jemima...

VALENTINE ZADKINE PRAX 1897-1981 (French) Title: Gatherers of Dry Wood / Ramasseuses de Bois Mort, circa 1925 Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas size: 116.2 x 100.3 cm / 45.75 x 39.5 in Additional Information: This original oil painting by Valentine Prax-Zadkine is hand signed by the artist at the lower left part. It was painted in circa 1925. Provenance: Collection Pierre Alexandre Regnauld (1868-1954), Amsterdam. Anonymous sale; Collection de Tableaux Modernes de feu P.A. Regnault, Paul Brandt...

Henry Patrick Raleigh was one of the most prolific of all our illustrators. In spite of this, he consistently maintained high quality and good ...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 31, 1929. Sandy takes Lil and baby Ulysses out for a day on the lake at the crowded Lakeside Bathing Casino. Sandy pulls out a ...

Story illustration for “The Flower of the Flock” by Jay Gelzer for Cosmopolitan, published August 1921, pages 74-75 The Post describes the tale as “The story of a Kentucky mountain...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 22, 1927. Blissful in her recent engagement to Sandy, Lil spends an evening at home knitting him a pair of green zigzag sport ...

“The Doctor Calls: Spending the Morning with Lil’s Oldest Friend,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published May 5, 1928 Dr. Howard, the Morse family doctor, is caught in traff...

“And Why Not?: Lil and Sandy Warm Up Their Imagination,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published April 7, 1928 As Mr. and Mrs. Morse leave for a date night at the local lodge, Lil and Sandy spend an evening in front of the fireplace at the Morse home. Sandy turns on sentimental music, gathers marshmallows and a toasting fork, and lights the logs in his father-in-law’s fireplace. The fireplace’s golden glow becomes a picture frame for the couple’s dreams of their future son. Sandy excitedly imagines their baby going to college and being the “head of every class, scholarships galore, and captain of basketball, hockey, crew, and football.” Little Sandy is also imagined to be a brave soldier and even serve as future president of the United States. “Dreams of their son…red embers on the hearth…Their fireplace fantasy!” (Liberty magazine, April 7, 1928) “For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family” In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...

Story illustration, image of man on couch, woman in chair writing Charles Edward Chambers was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and later the Art Students League in New York with George Bridgman. His illustrations were extremely skillful, marked by subtlety of value and color. He early learned to adapt his method of painting for the best possible reproduction, and to insure fidelity of printing, he often followed the assignments through to the hands of the engraver who made the plates. Chambers divided his time almost equally between editorial and advertising assignments. Among his advertising commissions was an outstanding series of portraits of musicians for Steinway & Sons. His distinctive illustrations for billboards, notably for Chesterfield and Palmolive Soap...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931) One of the rarest and most important artists among the New Hope School, Robert Spencer was bor...

Image of two men standing in front of woman seated at desk. Charles Edward Chambers was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, studied at the Chicago Art Institute, and later the Art Students Lea...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned “She Needs You So!” Magazine advertisement: Cream of Wheat hot cereal, 1927;

Engagements, Saint Valentine, LIFE Magazine Illustration Inscribed to famed Skippy cartoonist Percy Crosby and signed on bottom edge Signed Lower Cen...

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Study for the February 1929 issue of People’s Popular Monthly magazine. A woman and two men in historical costume with a heart behind them. Medium: Gouache on Board with collaged l...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover Illustration: March 5, 1921 of The Country Gentleman.

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left

JOACHIM WEINGART 1895-1942 Drochobitch, Poland 1895-1942 Auschwitz (Polish/Ukrainian) Title: Seated Woman with Flowery Hat, ca. 1925 Technique: Ori...

Mabel Rollins Harris was among other things an illustrator who specialized Children's art. Looking at her work today her pictures take on an almost surreal quality. She posed ...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 13, 1928 Great Uncle Ulysses Grant Simpson comes to visit Sandy and Lil and stays for dinner, an event that he considers the c...

“The Green-Eyed Monster of Jealousy: Breathing Out Envy, It Swoops Down upon Sandy,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published April 9, 1927. Sandy is feeling gloomy while reme...

The Elks Magazine Cover, Feb 1926 Signed Lower Right

“Crashing the Gate: Sandy Paves the Way to His Big Business Scoop,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published March 10, 1928 Sandy confidently struts down the street, dapperly ...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published April 13, 1929. The opera is in town for one night only, making it the social event of the season. Sandy and Lil sit in their box seats, gazing at the less elite audience members in the orchestra and haughtily critiquing the wardrobe choices of other wealthy socialites. The couple excitedly watches as the Opera begins, and eagerly await the gathering in their home after the performance, to which they have invited the star, Paltrianni. Upon his arrival at the Jenkins’ home, Paltrianni comments on how extravagantly the couple lives. However, much to Lil’s horror, there was no lavish banquet awaiting them, for the butler Meadows was found drunkenly passed out on a chair next to the empty dining room. (Liberty magazine, April 13, 1929, p. 68) “For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family” In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine covers have been disconnected pictures.” To help readers follow the plot from week to week, a short story summary was printed in each issue. (Liberty magazine, June 19, 1926, pp. 69-70). “For the Love o’ Lil” centers around the lives of Lil Morse and Sandy Jenkins and includes recurring characters from their extended family and social circles. The serial follows the couples’ adventures through courtship, the ups and downs of married life, the antics of their offspring with the neighborhood children, and the complex dynamics of relationships with in-laws. The goal was to show a typical modern American family whose eccentricities and foibles would attract readers each week. Thrasher used himself as the model for Lil’s father, Robert E. Lee Morse. Liberty further engaged readers by running contests for best titles, and later, for suggested storylines. The model proved successful and “For the Love o’ Lil” became a popular hallmark of the publication for many years, resulting in a 1930 film adaptation starring the flapper Sally Starr. Leslie Thrasher Leslie Thrasher first began contributing covers to Liberty in 1924, and in 1926 he was offered a contract to create a cover per week at the rate of $1,000 per week. Going against the advice of his friend Norman Rockwell, Thrasher accepted the contract, agreeing to complete a weekly cover for six years - an immensely challenging endeavor requiring that both new ideas and new artwork be produced at an extremely rapid pace. The continuing storyline of the cover serial “For the Love o’ Lil” helped Thrasher keep up with the constant demand for new images. Due to declining circulation, Liberty terminated Thrasher’s contract in 1932. A few years later in 1936, Thrasher died from pneumonia caused by smoke inhalation from a fire in his home, which also destroyed much of his original artwork. An incredibly prolific artist, Thrasher had created more than 360 covers in his lifetime for various publications, including 23 covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Leslie Thrasher was born in Piedmont, West Virginia. He studied art at the Philadelphia Academy and at the age of 16, won a scholarship that allowed him to study in Paris. Upon his return to the United States, Thrasher studied with Howard Pyle in Wilmington, Delaware and briefly worked as a portrait painter before moving to New York City to begin his commercial career producing illustration for magazines and advertising agencies. Thrasher also served in World War I, where he was assigned work as a camouflage painter. Date: 1929 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, 4/13/29 "Opera Night"

Date: 1921 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 20.75" x 17.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right (Monogram)

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Cover of American Boy Weekly Magazine, 1927 of a Striding Drum Major Edgar Franklin Wittmack ...

Date: 1923 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions 24.50" x 25.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left

Approximate Date: 1925 Medium: Gouache on Board

Stop and Go, The Elks Magazine Cover A police officer is pointing and talking/reprimanding the woman driving. She is giving a confused look at the off...

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