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Mural Study for "The First Settlement on Manhattan Island"
By Howard Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
This is a study for the very large Howard Pyle mural now in the historic County Courthouse in Hudson County, New Jersey. It was commissione...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pirates Destroying Ship
By Norman Mills Price
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Subject matter features pirates watching a ship burn from a distance a small rowboat with a figure returning to the ship after set...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The King
s Mistress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
This illustration was published as the cover of The King's Mistress by Jean Plaidy, 1952.
Framed under glass to an overall size of 24.2...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ask for Hires and Get the Genuine
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid to Board
Signature: Signed with the Artists Initials M.P Lower Center
Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, plate 35, p. 133, illustrated in color
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Original Illustration for Red Cross Advertisement
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed on Reverse
1 of a 4 part Illustration, Used as Promotional Poster
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Pa...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Illustration for The Red Cross Advertisement
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
1 of a 4 part illustration used as a promotional poster
Exhibited:
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Each Upper Panel, Signed 'Maxfield Parrish/Windsor./Vermont.' (On the Reverse); Each Lower Panel, Signed 'Maxfield Parrish' (Lower Right) Each
1 of a...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
19.875" x 14.00" Each Panel
1 of a 4 Part Illustration used as a promotional poster
Poster for The Red Cross—Watching...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Beech-Nut Spaghetti Advertisement
By Cushman Parker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Boy with Plane
By Jean Oldham
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Genre Scene
By Violet Oakley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
An oil on canvas en grisaille genre interior scene depicting a woman reading a letter with child and gentleman looking on.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,000
The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cover illustration for "The Future Mr. Dolan"
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
True Confessions
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of 'True Confessions' Written by Dunne John Gregory
True Confessions, first published in 1977, is widely regarded as a classic American novel. Set in Los Angeles in 1948 and based on the notorious, never-solved Black Dahlia murder case, the story plumbs the depths of guilt and corruption — in the L.A.P.D., the Catholic Church, the construction industry, and in the relationships among them. Like the film Chinatown, which came to the screen three years before the novel, True Confessions illuminates the dark underside of Los Angeles at a time when corruption ran rampant and seemingly without shame. The book’s stature as a classic is underlined in an introduction by the brilliant novelist and screenwriter George Pelecanos, who writes of the author, “with True Confessions, he achieved what most novelists can only hope for. He left behind a work of art.”
Indeed. True Confessions works on many levels: as a crime novel, as humor (the story is often laugh-out-loud funny), as an example of masterful writing style, as an emblematic tale of a great American city, and as a novel that explores the human condition with sensitivity and deep understanding.
True Confessions revolves around the often testy relationship between two Irish-American brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy. Tom is a lieutenant in the L.A.P.D., a clever detective with a past history of corruption. Tom’s brother, Des, is a Catholic priest risen to the rank of Monsignor and the role of fixer and hatchet man for the aging Cardinal, whom he hopes to succeed. The two brothers come into conflict over their clashing agendas for a corrupt construction mogul who is one of the city’s richest and most powerful men. They have drastically different ideas about how to deal with the man.
The author writes with compassion. For example, describing bystanders in a poor neighborhood, he writes, “They weren’t bad people. Just too-little, too-late people. Has-beens, never-weres, never-will-bes.” The novel is rife with unsympathetic characters, but none of them can be viewed as evil.
The story opens and closes in the 1970s, when Tom and Des are old men, reviewing the wreckage of their careers. In between, two plots intertwine: Tom’s investigation of the shocking murder of a young woman, and Des’s attempts to strengthen the Church while scheming to position himself as the successor to the Cardinal.
The late novelist and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne — he died in 2003 at the age of 71 — came naturally to writing. He was the younger brother of the writer Dominick Dunne...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Time and Again
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of 'Time and Again' by Jack Finney
Time and Again is told in the first person by Simon Morley, a 28-year-old artist wor...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Enchanted, 1983
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Crazy Sundays F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood, Cover Illustration, 1975
By Charles Moll
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of 'Crazy Sundays F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood' written by Aaron Latham
Published by ...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Boy Reading
By Frederic Kimball Mizen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sleeping in Church, Post Cover
By Frederic Kimball Mizen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: Sight Size 36.00" x 31.00;" Framed 43.00" x 38.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, April 7th, 1934
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“He pulled Francie through the crowd” Frantic Frontier illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Frantic Frontier” by Mosser Mauger for The American Magazine, published February 1956, pages 32-33.
The “Frantic Frontier” story, promoted with the tagline "...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Cover Illustration for
The Skin
By Stanley Meltzoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Burro Alley, Paperback Cover, 1953
By James Meese
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 35.5" x 25.5;" Framed 39.50" x 28.75"
This illustration was published as the paperback cover of Burro Alley by Edwin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Roosevelt
s Rose, Probable Paperback Cover
By Robert E. McGinnis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Board measures 23.75 x 15.75 inches.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Gods of Voodoo
By Harold McCauley
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Dimensions: Sight Size 18.00" x 24.00;" Framed 28.50" x 35.50"
Cover for Fate Magazine - August 1953
The original cover painting by H.W. McCauley used for the August 1953 cover of Fate (True Stories of the Strange and Unknown), illustrating "The Gods of Voodoo" by North Hildabrand. In this offering a dancing pin...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The River Devils
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas mounted on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Subject matter features a mottled blue ground with a male kissing a woman, the foreground with a man holding gun...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Eagles Where I Walk, Original Paperback Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback book cover illustration for Eagles Where I Walk by Stephen Longstreet, published by Popular Library, 1961.
The publisher describes the story:
“Anger had burst into rebellion, and rebellion had exploded into war—and across the Colonies brave men and women joined together in a passionate struggle which there was no turning back.
Such a man was David Cortlandt—robust, daring, never one to avoid danger. He was a man who must have what he desired, be it freedom from a tyrant or possession of a strange and deadly beauty named Roxanne.”
The cover features a soldier embracing a woman above a small illustration...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Few Painted Feathers, Original Paperback Book Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback book cover illustration for A Few Painted Feathers by Stephen Longstreet, published by Popular Library, 1963.
A historical novel about the American Revolution.
The cover...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Safe!
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Tempera on Board
Illustration of a baseball player's dusty crash to a field base as seen out of the corner of a television set.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
$9,500
Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 13, 1913
By Charles MacLellan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Canvas
This illustration was a Saturday Evening Post cover, September 13, 1913.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Caught in a Crab Net
By Ralph Arthur Lytle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Front and Back of Canvas
Possibly original illustration for Saturday Evening Post
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailor with Eagle and Dove, Life Magazine Cover, January 1914
By Orson Byron Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Cover for Life Magazine, January 1, 1914
Caption: "Which Bird?"
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist Muse
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$15,000
Happy Endings
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Linen
Signature: Signed and Dated
Story illustration for "Farewell Without Regret" by Sarah-Elizabeth Rodger for Good Housekeeping, published July 1940, page 58.
The...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Blondin Crossing Niagara
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This piece was published as an illustration in True Magazine titled "Blondin Crossing Niagara" in 1953. Born Jean-François Grave...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Attorney at Sea
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed TOM/LOVELL (lower left); also titled Attorney/at Sea (on the reverse)
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$53,000
Gondola In Venice, 1947
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine
Excellent Condition
This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Corn Flake Advertisement
By Andrew Loomis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"The children danced around her, chanting"
By Andrew Loomis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "Illegitimate" by Nelia Gardner White for the Ladies' Home Journal, published June 1944, page 25.
The full caption reads: "The children danced around her, cha...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Farmer in Overalls Stretching a Black Sock, Interwoven Socks Advertisement
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right
Preliminary study for Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Everlasting Doors, ” Illustration for Cosmopolitan
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for “The First Works” by Basil King as part of the series “The Everlasting Doors” for Cosmopolitan, published July 1920, pages 38-39.
In his series “The Everlasting Doors,” Basil King delves into his belief that humanity underestimates its own psychic powers. King expresses a profound desire to rediscover the “lost laws of the universe,” believing these ancient principles could lead to remarkable advancements, including “the abolishing of Death and other wonders.”
Enhancing the published text was Frank Leyenecker’s dramatic illustration, which framed and decorated the pages. Leyendecker presumably later added the poetic lines, “Relax and lay your head on my shoulder. Give me your hand and I will lead you on. We cannot make mistakes because the light is too strong to allow of anyone missing the way,” to fill in the white space, transforming the painting into a more complete and visually resonant artwork.
Signature: Signed Lower Right: F X Leyendecker...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Loose Tooth, Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 22, 1912
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 17.00" x 15.50;" Framed 24.50" x 23.00"
The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 22, 1912
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Organ Grinder, Collier
s Magazine, April 25th, 1905
By Frank Xavier Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Illustration for "Da Strit Pianna" by Wallace Irwin, Collier's Magazine April 25th, 1905
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Yard Work, Saturday Evening Post Cover, Nov. 6, 1937
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, November 6, 1937
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Matador
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roller-skating, Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 12, 1919
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Unknown
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 30.00" x 25.00", Framed 39.00" x 34.00"
Saturday Evening Post Cover, July 12, 1919
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peeling Apples, Thanksgiving Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1925
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925
Literature:
The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925, cover illustra...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mortmain" by Arthur Train, Book Illustration, 1918
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lucky Bag Girl
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Hand Painted Fine Print
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Thanksgiving, The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 12, 1910
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Panel
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 12, 1910
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
The Candidate (Patriotic Politician), Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 18, 1920
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Leyendecker addressed the theme of American patriotism in several ways. His famous Fourth of July covers asserted the import of American independence through stock characters: George Washington, Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, colonial Freedom Fighters, and modern-day soldiers. In addition, his World War I and World War II covers depicted soldiers proudly defending their country. Leyendecker also profiled U.S. presidents and historical figures - George Washington, Robert E. Lee, William Howard Taft...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sick Man, Saturday Evening Post Cover Study, 1917
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
March 10, 1917 Preliminary Study for The Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Living Mannequin, The Saturday Evening Post cover, March 5, 1932
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed lower right: JC Leyendecker
Living Mannequin sold at the U.S. War Bond at the United States Treasury-Saturday E...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goin
South
Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for
Trimming the Pie
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned
Medium: Oil and Charcoal on Canvas
This piece is a preparatory study for J.C. Leyendecker’s final painting, Trimming the Pie (19...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
The Story Teller, The Saturday Evening Post Cover Study, December 1, 1934
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Study for the Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 1, 1934
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, Easter Edition
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Mounted to Archival Board
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 17.625” x 14.375;" Framed 23.063” x 20.125"
Custom Gilt Framing: Thanhardt Burger (formerly Newcomb Mac...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Wench is Dead
By Ron Lesser
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original book cover illustration for "The Wench is Dead," published by Centipede Press.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil





