NORMAN ROCKWELL This piece of original art was drawn and signed by the artist; the image was featured on the cover of an edition of The Saturday Evening Post, and both items are framed! Original Art Signed: “NR” in pencil. 14½x19 pencil sketch. Framed to a size of 26x30½. Fine condition. Accompanied by a magazine cover unsigned: The Saturday Evening Post, November 5, 1960 edition. 10¼x13 visible. Framed to a size of 19x22. Dated three days before the 1960 election, when the Nixon/Lodge ticket squared off against the Kennedy/Johnson ticket. Two years later, Nixon ran for Governor of California and lost to Pat Brown. Nixon went on to win the Oval Office six years later, only to resign due to the Watergate Scandal. Cover lightly worn and creased. Otherwise, fine condition. NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978) captured scenes from American life in his magazine covers and illustrations, often noted for their humorous and accurate depictions of 1940's and 1950's life. Rockwell's drawings, read more...

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT CALLS HIS WORK "THE ONLY TRULY AMERICAN EXPRESSION IN THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE"   FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. Extremely rare Partly Printed DS: "Frank Lloyd Wright Architect", 1p, 5½x8½. No date, no place. An application for information to be published in a directory. Headed: "Business or Professional Record". In the upper portion, which asks for "data to enable the editor to do complete justice to your business or professional record", Wright has written, in full: "Work characterized as 'New School of Middle West' in America -- Abroad, as the architecture of the 'Prairie Dimension' -- the only truly American expression in the art of Architecture. Many foreign publications of distinction publish the work and European architects manifest increasing interest in it." Wright has also written "None" twice in columns asking for information on being an officer or director of a corporation and the office or position occupied. At the bottom of the form is a line that reads "Please enclose your business card or other printed matter in order that spelling of names may be verified. read more...

NORMAN ROCKWELL Limited edition set of seven lithographs based on Rockwell paintings used to illustrate Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack. Each 25½x19½ lithograph in the set has been signed in pencil by Rockwell and is numbered. Lithograph Set signed: "Norman Rockwell" in pencil. Set of seven color lithographs, each 25½x19½. Each one is numbered (111 of 200) and signed by the artist. Loose sheets of handmade Velin d'Arches paper. Pulled at Atelier Mourlot, Paris. The 7 lithographs, based on Rockwell's paintings for the Heritage Press edition of Poor Richard's Almanack (1964) are titled: "Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia", "The Drunkard", "Ben's Belles", "The Village Smithy", "Ye Olde Print Shoppe", "The Golden Age" and "The Royal Crown". The set is laid into a gilt-stamped, brown cloth clamshell box. Noted American artist/illustrator Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) is best known for his realistic and humorous scenes of small town life in America. He painted over 300 covers for the "Saturday Evening Post" (1916-1965) after beginning his career at age 18 as an illustrator for "Boy's Life". Rockwell also painted politically significant works, such as his cover illustration of Franklin D. read more...

PIERRE AUGUSTE RENOIR Unsigned aquatint "Tourne à Gauche" portrait of Pierre Auguste Renoir's son, Claude Renoir, circa 1904. Aquatint, unsigned. B/w, 11x13¼ overall, image 9¾x12 (two surfaces). Aquatint "Tourne à Gauche" portrait of his son, Claude Renoir, circa 1904. Facsimile of Renoir's signature, produced by the same process, appears below the image. Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), a leader among the Impressionists, is best known for his landscapes and paintings of figures and flowers. Renoir, who also enjoyed painting his children, also painted Claude, the youngest of his three sons (born in 1901 when the artist was 60), at his easel (1907) and dressed in a clown costume (1909). Dry mounted. Edges slightly soiled. Mounting remnants on verso (no show through). Overall, fine condition. Mounted, not in Gallery of History style. Not reviewed by us for conservation integrity. "As is" mounting purchase. read more...

GRANDMA MOSES In the book Grandma Moses: American Primitive, Moses has drawn a country scene on the flyleaf, and signed the book opposite the title page, inscribing it to columnist Leonard Lyons. Original Art in an inscribed and signed book: "April 27, 1948./To Mr. Leonard Lyons./with best regards./Grandma Moses." beneath printed photograph facing the title page, 146 pages, 8½x11¼, hardcover. Grandma Moses American Primitive, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York: 1947. From the title page: "Forty Paintings with Comments/By Grandma Moses - Together with/Her Life's History/Introduction by Louis Bromfield/Edited by Otto Kallir". 87-YEARS-OLD AT THE TIME, GRANDMA MOSES HAS DRAWN A COUNTRY SCENE IN INK ON THE FIRST BLANK FLYLEAF. Self-taught, ANNA MARY ROBERTSON "GRANDMA" MOSES (1860-1961) and her paintings first came to public attention in 1940, when she was 80 years old, with a one-woman show, "What A Farm Wife Painted", in OTTO KALLIR's Galerie St. Etienne in New York City. The Galerie St. Etienne officially represented Grandma Moses and has represented her estate since her death. read more...

CARTOONISTS: WALTER LANTZ, HANK KETCHAM, CHARLES SCHULZ, JIM DAVIS, STAN LEE, and many, many others Limited edition, 35½x26¾ color lithograph, a 1986 benefit poster for Voice for Children, signed in artists' pencil and ink by 63 cartoonists, below a collage of favorite comic strip characters surrounding a central drawn image of President and Mrs. Reagan. One of the largest collections of cartoon talent in the industry's history, on a single sheet! Poster signed: "Cathy Guisewite" (Cathy), "Bill/Schorr" (The Grizwells), "Aragonés 86" (MAD magazine), "Rog/Bollen" (Animal Crackers), "Larry/Wright" (Kit 'N' Carlyle), "Ketcham" (Dennis the Menace), "Jim Unger" (Herman), "Bob/Thaves" (Frank and Ernest), "Kelly Freas" (Hugo-winning science fiction art), "Jack Hannah" (Disney and Lantz studios), "Morrie/Turner" (Wee Pals), "Bill Justice" read more...

ALFRED STIEGLITZ Signed autograph letter to a biographer concerning photographic plates missing from his collection Autograph Letter signed: "Alfred Stieglitz", 2 pages, 8½x11, front and verso (hinged to show both sides). New York City, 1933 December 18. To his friend (and author) Grace E. Titus, who was working a book about the innovative photographer. In full, as written: "Every number of Camera Work was published complete when issued. The way it happens that Plates are missing is that frequently Camera Work came out of the Bindery with Plates to be inserted by me personally after binding. Some years ago many of the Insets were either destroyed or mislaid. Hence the impossibility of completing many issues at present I know of no way of acquiring missing plates except in keeping one's eyes open for numbers of Camera Work as they may appear in the market Absolutely complete sets of Camera Work are very, very rare & are priceless. No I have no reproductions either There are none The Plates in Camera Work for the major part are photo gravures made directly from original negatives & were made under my direction as were the prints. read more...

HENRI MATISSE He signs this 10¼x14 color print, Abstract Figure (Blue Series) Printed Art signed in Pencil: "H.M." Color, 10¼x14. The print is titled Abstract Figure (Blue Series). From Proof, Pre Publication Edition, Verve. French painter, sculptor, and printmaker Henri Matisse (1869-1954), who was influenced by Post-Impressionism, revolted against Pointillism and became a leader of the Fauvist school, although his later work moved in other directions. He was a master in the use of form and color to convey emotion. A lifelong friend and rival of Pablo Picasso, Matisse shared many similarities with his contemporary. However, he differed from Picasso in that Matisse usually painted from nature. Slightly soiled at blank left edge. Otherwise, fine condition. read more...

HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC He signs an autograph letter thanking a fellow artist for his "articles against the critics." Autograph letter signed: "T-Lautrec", 1 page, 4½x7. No place, no date. To "My dear Marty". In French, translated. In full: "We remain open next week, so you may let it be known. I don't know if I asked you to do it yesterday. Thanks for the articles against the jurists. Cordially" Congenitally stunted French painter and printmaker Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is famous for his posters and other images of Parisian nightlife in the "belle époque" of the 1890s. His early painting, "The Laundress", sold for $22.4 million in 2005. The letter is written to young fellow artist Andre Edouard Marty, later a leader of the Art Deco movement. Slightly creased. Ink transference at upper blank margin from folding the letter before ink had dried. Fine condition. read more...