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Lot of Eleven Signatures of Illustrators

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:19.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 125.00 USD
Lot of Eleven Signatures of Illustrators
<B>Lot of Eleven Signatures of Illustrators,</B></I> including: <B>C. C. Beall,</B></I> who illustrated many of the Dr. Fu Manchu stories in <I>Collier's</B></I> magazine; <B>Jon Whitcomb</B></I> (1906-1988) was an American illustrator well-known for his pictures of glamorous young women; <B>Al Parker</B></I> (1906-1985) an American artist and illustrator, called the “Dean of Illustrators”. Parker produced illustrations for <I>Chatelaine, Collier's Weekly, Ladies Home Journal, Women's Home Companion, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, The Saturday Evening Post, Sports Illustrated, Town and Country,</B></I> and <I>Vogue.</B></I> A stamp commemorating his art was issued by the United States Postal Service as part of the “American Illustrators” Issue series; Albert Staehle, a cover artist for The Saturday Evening Post and the illustrator for the first Smokey Bear poster; <B>Sam Berman</B></I> (1906-) a popular celebrity caricaturist; <B>Guy (Giro) Rowe</B></I> (1894-1968) an illustrator and painter, he created covers for <I>Time</B></I> magazine, and also did paintings of Old Testament characters that appeared in the book <I>In Our Image</B></I> published by the Oxford University Press; <B>Arthur William Brown</B></I> an illustrator associated with the <I>Saturday Evening Post</B></I> for forty years. He collaborated with many famous authors, including O. Henry and F. Scott Fitzgerald; <B>Daniel Garber</B></I> (1880-1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. He is best known today for his large impressionist scenes of the New Hope area, in which he often depicted the Delaware River. He also painted figurative interior works and excelled at etching. In addition to his painting career, Garber taught art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over forty years; <B>Arthur Szyk</B></I> (1894-1951) was a Poland-born American artist, famous for his anti-Axis political illustrations, caricatures, and cartoons during World War II, as well as his illustrations for magazine and newspaper articles and books. His illustrations took the form of medieval miniaturists and illuminated manuscripts, which gave them a very distinctive style. Szyk dedicated his work to democracy and freedom, and end to political injustice and human suffering, saying of his work, "Art is not my aim, it is my means", and "I am but a Jew praying in art"; <B>Paul King</B></I> (1867-1947) a painter whose diverse works of portraits, landscapes, rural scenes and illustrations established his reputation in the first quarter of the century; and, <B>Lonie Bee</B></I> (1902-1995) a painter and illustrator whose illustrations appeared in and on the covers of such magazines as <I>Cosmopolitan, American, Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, Woman's Day,</B></I> and <I>The Saturday Evening Post.</B></I> Various sizes. Most mounted on stiff card stock with brief typed biographical information. All are fine. <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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