Approximately four feet in height from Peru. These saintly altar pieces have maintained their luster, even at over 150 years of age.
Author: Myrian Cavalli
Child Picking Flowers
by Frank Hector Tompkins (1847-1922, American). Tompkins was a well-known and highly regarded painter of landscapes and figures. He studied and worked in Germany before settling in Boston and was considered one of the early American masters of impressionism. The painting shown here is an excellent example of Tompkins’ use of light on a landscape.
You Can Learn to Water Ski
(from the girls magazine Calling All Girls,July 1961), by Freeman Elliott (American, 1922-). Born in 1922 in a suburb of Chicago, Freeman Elliot’s early work appeared in Brown & Bigelow’s successful Ballyhoo Calendar, along with Esquire Magazine. His pinups appeard on the covers of Hearst’s The American Weekly during the 1950s.
The Beach
by Tom Lovell (American, 1909-1997). This illustration, which appeared in Woman’s Home Companion, is the story of conflict between man and wife, showing the close relationship between mother and children to the exclusion of the father. Lovell painted for National Geographic among many other magazines. He was commissioned by many publications to produce scenes of…
Parisian Park Scene
ca. 1910, by Jane Peterson (1876-1965, American). After graduation in 1901 from the Pratt Institute in New York, Jane Peterson went on to study oil and watercolor painting at the Art Students League in New York City. Moving to Paris in 1907, she became friends with Gertrude Stein and met Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse….
Cover illustration for the 1960 edition of the book, The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith
by Robert Maguire (American, 1921-2005) Set in a small town in Scotland, the book—a fictional novel by the Scottish writer Bruce Marshall—tells the story of Father Smith and a group of exiled French nuns. (The reprint next to the painting is of the cover of the original publication, 1945.) The artist Robert Maguire, a twentieth-century…
Abraham Lincoln Debating Stephen Douglas, 1860
The work of Dean Cornwell, (American, 1892-1960), nicknamed the “Dean of American Illustrators,” was a dominant presence in such magazines as Cosmopolitan, Harper’s Bazaar, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping. He also painted murals on many public buildings in New York, Los Angeles, and in Europe.
The Annunciation
by Guido Reni (Italian, 1575-1642). Guido Reni was born and trained in Bologna, ultimately joining the academy of Lodovico Carracci, whom he followed to Rome in 1601. There, Guido painted in such places as the Farnese Palace and the garden palace of the Palazzo Pallavicini-Rospigliosi, and in numerous churches and chapels, establishing his reputation as…
Chinese Cider Jug
This blue and white pitcher, actually a cider jug, is approximately 180 years old. The intricate handles of this style of vessel almost never survive, as they are so fragile. The jug has retained its original lid, which is also unusual.
Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth
Dennis Malone Carter’s 1854 study for a painting of Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth, a painting that has become an icon of the portrayal of the American Revolution. Molly Pitcher was a nickname given to a woman said to have fought in the American Battle of Monmouth, who is generally believed to have…