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The Politician, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1916
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916 Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, November 4, 1916, illustrated on the ...
Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Voice in the Rice
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left In the 1890s and early 1900s, as J.C. Leyendecker was developing his pictorial work for advertisements, magazine covers, and posters, he also illustrated a number of novels to supplement his income. These titles include One Fair Daughter (1895), Ships that Pass in the Night (1898), The Kiss of Glory (1902), Ridolfo (1906), The Crimson Conquest (1907), Get Rich Quick Wallingford (1908), The Voice in the Rice (1910) and The Lonely Guard (1912). The present work is one of six Leyendecker illustrations from Gouverner Morris' The Voice in the Rice, published in book form in 1911. The novel centers on a dashing young man, Michael Bourne, who, after surviving a shipwreck off the coast of South Carolina, washes ashore near the Santee River and encounters a secret slaveholding community. Lord Nairn, a wheelchair-bound tyrant with hypnotic powers, governs this supposedly utopian society, and he soon feels threatened by Michael when they begin to compete for the affections of Mary Moore. Michael can...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00" This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Snoring Brother
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover Illustration: March 5, 1921 of The Country Gentleman.
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Phone Call, Country Gentleman Magazine Cover
By Joseph Francis Kernan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed J. F. Kernan Lower Left Country Gentleman Magazine Cover, March 25 1932
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two Cavaliers with Harlot
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Handboard Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer s Dream) Paperback Cover
By Raymond Johnson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration was the paperback cover of Dark Streets of Paris (Lucifer's Dream) by Jean Louis Curt...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sunday Afternoon Callers, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 17, 1950
By George Hughes
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'Hughes-' Lower Left This work was published as the cover of the June 17, 1950 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. Literature: J. Cohn, ...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Tense Moment, A.B Kimball General Merchandise Calendar Illustration
By Henry Hintermeister
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A.B Kimball General Merchandise Calendar Illustration, January 1931
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board Signature: Unsigned This piece was produced as the cover art for the box containing a die-cut color lithograph manger set...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Barklow Calendar Illustration Magazine Cover
By Adelaide Hiebel
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Young Boy and Girl playing with Boat. Barklow Calendar Illustration & Magazine Cover
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Pastel

Affair of State
By Louis S. Glanzman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Signature: Unsigned
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Three Sailors
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Maclean s Magazine Cover, 1930
By Joseph Farrely
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Maclean's Magazine Cover, September 15th, 1930
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Couple Dancing, Liberty Magazine Cover, 1925
By Joseph Farrely
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, April 4, 1925
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Boys on a Fence, Preliminary Work for Johnson Johnson Ad
By John Philip Falter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.75" x 12.75" This piece was probably created as a preparatory work for a John...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Girl Peeling Apple, Johnson Johnson Advertisement, 1959
By John Philip Falter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed 'John Falter' Lower Right Sight Size 7.00" x 9.375;" Framed 9.50" x 12.00" Johnson & Johnson reproduced the present work as an advertisemen...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Summer by the Sea, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1956
By John Philip Falter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 21, 1956 This Falter cover was owned by Sarah Johansen, daughter of John Falter. She is the you...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Mediator, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned R. Norton, The Mediator, New York, 1913, cover illustration. Douglas Duer (1887-1964) was a member of New York's Society of Illustrators w...
Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Valley of Ashes, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right "Valley of Ashes" by William James Stevens Jr., and illustrated by Stevan Dohanos for the Saturday Evening Post, May 24, 1947.
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Chef and the Wedding Cake, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Edmund Davenport
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Satuday Evening Post Cover, May 30, 1925.
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Exquisite Perdita
By Dean Cornwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Santa Claus, Likely Advertisement for Coolerator Refrigerators
By Edward Vincent Brewer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right The back says Coolerator Times, likely a advertisement for Coolerator refrigerators
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Catching the Train, 1928
By Frank Bensing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Center Left Sight Size 36.00" x 24.00;" Framed 43.25" x 31.00"
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Darling, Darling!" Original Magazine Story Illustration for Cosmopolitan
By McClelland Barclay
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original story illustration for “The Moon’s Our Home” by Faith Baldwin for Cosmopolitan magazine, published December 1935, illustrated pages 66-67. The full caption reads: “‘Darling...
Category

1930s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pictoral Review Magazine Cover
By McClelland Barclay
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Contact for exact dimensions. Cover of Pictorial Review Magazine, December 1932. The woman in the illustration was modeled by th...
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Composer and Musician Tony Mottola, "Mr. Big, " Author of "Danger"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Upper Right Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Composer and Musician Tony Mottola, `Mr. Big`, author of the `Danger` chord for the 1950 NBC-TV show of the same name. A famous musical signature where a single repeated note is interrupted by a dramatic chord or sting, the device was named after the series which first utilized it as its theme, the CBS-TV suspense anthology, `Danger` (1950-55). It was one of the directors for `Danger` - Yul...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

"The Dawn of To-Morrow", Crowd Reporting a Crime to a Policeman
By Frederick Coffay Yohn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The Blue Ribbon Parlors
By Frederick Coffay Yohn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Board

“Kit Carson, The Famous American Frontiersman”
By George Hand Wright
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Right Story illustration for “Kit Carson, The Famous American Frontiersman” by William S. Bridgman for Munsey’s, published December 1...
Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Gouache

Seats of the Haughty, Munsey s Magazine Illustration
By George Hand Wright
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906 Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...
Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Violin Studies
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Signed Lower Right Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s w...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

How do you do?
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Loves Delight
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s which i...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"There is No Love, " Saturday Evening Post Magazine Illustration
By Wilson Mortimer Jr.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas The oil on canvas illustration is bearing a Saturday Evening Post label verso, used to illustrate the short story There Is No Love, in the October 18th, 1941 i...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Commandant s Night Out
By Wilson Mortimer Jr.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ice Follies
By Fritz Willis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left A well-crafted, stylish, and eye-catching cover painting by the renowned pin up calendar artist and commercial illustrator Fritz Willis. This was used as a cover for a Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies...
Category

1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Battle of Belgrave Square
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right An interesting piece by the Hall of Fame illustrator whose best works don’t show up all that frequently.
Category

1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

The Artist, This Week Magazine Cover, 1937
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Sight Size 36.00" x 28.25;" Framed 42.50" x 34.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right This Week magazine cover, May 1937 An early 20th-cen...
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beauty Queen Scandal
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“The Queen’s Grace” Magazine story illustration for the Ladies’ Home Journal
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for part 2 of “The Queen’s Grace” by Jan Westcott for the Ladies’ Home Journal, published April 1959, page 64. Catherine Parr holds a significant place in history...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Lovely Outing, " Story Illustration, Ladies Home Journal, 1950
By Coby Whitmore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Signed Upper Right Story Illustration: Couple Lounging, the admiring new hat. "Geordie" Ladies Home Journal,...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Bowling Match, 1905
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Medieval Fight Scene, 1926
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Medieval Fight Scene by Edmund Franklin Ward, from 1926.
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kimono, Saturday Evening Post Cover, February 1907
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post, February 9, 1907, cover illustration.
Category

Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In Evening Bells, Front Book Cover
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

The Satyrs
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Unsigned Edmund F. Ward estate stamp on verso
Category

1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Resume Safe Speed, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1959
By Thornton Utz
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, May 30, 1959. The Post described, “It is so refreshing to get away from...
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Having Tea
By Clarence Underwood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Hart Schaffner Marx Clothing Advertisement
By Samuel Nelson Abbott
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media including Oil and Paper on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Attributed to Samuel Nelson Abbott
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Family Farewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cover of Swords of Casanova
By Robert Stanley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Unsigned Contact for exact dimensions.
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pair of 1923 Automobile Show Original Illustrations
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Unknown Signature: Unsigned Each framed illustration measures to 14.25" x 11.25." One illustration is impressed "Strathmore Drawing Board" imprint.
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

"Ideal Food for Young and Old, " Cream of Wheat Advertisement, 1922-1923
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Date: Circa 1922 Original Cream Of Wheat illustration. Oil on canvas. Ex: Kraft Food Collection / Morton Grove Ill.. Reference: "The Nabisc...
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Coal Miner s Daughter, British Quad Movie Poster, 1980
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard with Collage Signature: Unsigned Original Painting for British Quad Movie Poster, Published 1980. Coal Miner's Daughter- Sissy S...
Category

1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Franklin s Return to Philadelphia in 1785
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Franklin's Return to Philadelphia in 1785.
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stan Laurel Oliver Hardy - Comedians Traveling Road Sign
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign for the comedy duo. Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Signature: Unsigned
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Unsigned
Category

1980s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil