Barry Stephens

Swamp Girl, Paperback Cover

1950

Approximate date: 1924 Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Center Left Sight Size 20.75" x 29.88", Framed 49.00" x 39.00"

Illustration of a couple. "The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail." Ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29 1/2 inches. Signed in full, lower left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London's novel "The Valley of the Moon," Cosmopolitan Magazine...

Date: 1960 Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board Dimensions: 11.25" x 24.25" Signature: Signed Lower Left "I switched too..." Amoco

Date: 1918 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine illustration, April 1918

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 31.00" x 12.00", Framed 36.00" x 18.00" Hoot Mon, Life Magazine Cover...

Image of a woman wearing a robe and talking on the telephone. Signed lower left. Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early rep...

WHISPERS Mixed Media on Board Size: 30 x 37 cm (including frame) A wonderfully expressive and brilliantly executed figurative composition in mixed media (oil, watercolour gouache),...

This brilliantly rendered female portrait by a major American post-war illustrator known for his stunningly glamorous women. Notice how all the elements of the composition work tog...

Antique illustration of a golfer getting out of a sand trap by well listed illustrator Leslie Saalburg whose work appeared in Vanity Fair and Esquire.

Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama. It's the instant of friends having fun. A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod. The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment. The decisive moment is preserved. Sounds like a critique of an art photograph? No, it's an illustrator. This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting. Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment. While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition. Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist. We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...

Lorraine Fox was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for were Woman's Day, ...

Portrait of a Woman Mixed media on board , Redbook magazine interior illustration done in the 1950's , Work is unframed