A peerless collection representing not so much the leaders but the men who fought the battles. Civil War drum of the 4th New York Heavy Artillery, carried by E.B.A. Miller, drummer boy of Company A. Miller enlisted on August 27, 1862, and served until June 3, 1865, playing the drum in the battles of the…
Author: Myrian Cavalli
American Beauty
by Bradshaw Crandell (American, 1896-1966) While Bradshaw Crandell’s greatest satisfaction as an artist came as a result of his later portraiture of governors and heads of state, it was as a commercial artist that he achieved his greatest recognition. For a dozen years Crandell was the cover artist for Cosmopolitan Magazine, illustrating Hollywood’s most attractive…
Benjamin Franklin at the Court of King Louis 16th
Late 19th-century Lithograph, Benjamin Franklin at the Court of King Louis 16th. Franklin charmed, and sometimes scandalized, the French, America’s strongest ally during the Revolutionary War. He served as the American Minister (ambassador) to France from 1778 to 1785.
Christmas at the Cunninghams
Study for a Saturday Evening Post cover (December 11, 1954), by Amos Sewell (American, 1901-1883). Sewell sustained a strong relationship with the Saturday Evening Post, illustrating 45 covers between 1949 and 1962. He also achieved recognition as a WWII wartime artist and won a special art award for his War Bond ad illustration, What’s It…
Shepherd to the Flock
by James Bama (American, 1926-). Illustration for a story in The Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1962. Bama is an American artist known for his realistic paintings and etchings of Western subjects. His work is collected in The Western Art of James Bama (Bantam Books, 1975) and The Art of James Bama (1993). He was…
American Revolutionary War
Musket This American Revolutionary period stocked musket uses a pre-French and Indian War lock and trigger guard of American-made brass. The barrel is also American-made. Sword Rare silver hilt Lion Head officer’s sword. Made in England in the 1760s. General George Washington carried an identical sword during the American Revolution. (Washington’s sword is in the…
World War II
The jacket belonged to famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle, who was killed by machine gun fire on Okinawa in April 1945. Pyle had previously covered the war in Africa and Europe. He was admired for his own courageous coverage of the infantry grunt, whose perseverance and fortitude, Pyle believed, were what won the war. Documents…
Two Cowboys
by Frank McCarthy (American, 1924-2002). McCarthy was a prolific artist who created illustrations for Colliers, Argosy, and True magazines as well as posters for such films as The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen, and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, among many others. McCarthy was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of…
After Rubens
by Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 – April 5, 1906). Eastman Johnson was one of the nation’s most-prominent 19th century portrait painters, who particularly portrayed literary artists. Eastman was a leader within 19th-century America’s arts community and was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Widely recognized for his portraits of such prominent Americans…
Boy and Principal
by Richard Sargent (American 1911-1978) In this evocative scene from a Saturday Evening Post cover (February 7, 1959), one can almost hear the young man saying, “Hi, sir! How are you, sir?” only to return a few minutes later with a book, Manners are fun, and with his face plainly expressing his true feelings toward…