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.
Category: American
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…
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…
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…
An Afternoon at the Beach
by Francois Gall (Hungarian, 1912-1987). President of the French National Union of Painters and Sculptors, Gall was born in Hungary and moved to Paris as a young man. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he gained fame for his scenes of workers and families engaged in day-to-day activities. Today, Gall’s work…
Watering the Herd
by Carl Schmidt (American, 1885-1969). Schmidt painted in Impressionist style and was noted for his landscapes of Southwest and California scenes.
The Crucifixion
by Peieter Porbus (Flemish, 1523-1584). Porbus (or Pourbus) was a Dutch Flemish painter, sculptor, and cartographer, best known for his religious portraits. He worked primarily in Bruges where his paintings are housed in the Groeninge Museum. Porbus’s paintings were greatly sought after by Northern European religious institutions and schools for the clarity of his vision…
The Night Rider (1932)
Officer John Brown is after the outlaw known as the Night Rider. Posing as Jim Blake he takes a job on the Rogers ranch. He finds the secret passage from the Rogers mine to the Rogers house used by the Night Rider and also a note written by the Night Rider to his henchmen. Practicing…
One Man’s Law (1940)
Trailcross is trying to get the new railroad and Stevens wants it to go to Mason City. Jack and sidekick Nevady arrive and when Jack faces down Stevens’ men, he is made Marshal. The townspeople raise money for the railroad and entrust it to Jack. But Stevens plants two of his henchmen as Jack’s escorts…
Gun Fire from atop the Coach
by George Rozen (American, 1895-1974). A prolific illustrator for pulp-fiction publications. This painting appeared on the cover of Ace-High Western Stories, March 1950.