The books were stacked one atop the other from one end of a long row of tables to the other at the auction house. I groaned because I knew I had to go through all of…
Tag: illustrations
Newspaper-ad illustrations of women’s fashions
Posted in Advertising, Clothing, and Women
The papers had the dingy look of age, throwaways that someone no longer wanted. I could see that even before I got to the stacked sheets at the end of the auction table. But as I approached…
Friday at Auction Finds is readers’ questions day. I try to guide readers to resources for them to determine the value of their items. I’m not able to appraise their treasures, but I can do…
The auctioneer could barely give away the mounted illustrated ads. I understood why, because I had tried to figure out where they had come from and how I could use them. None of the other…
Illustrating Pearl Harbor
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Some months ago, I bought at auction six postal covers with illustrations of the attack on Pearl Harbor and other World War II battles drawn by a man named Fred Miller. I had never heard of Miller, but…
I had never heard of Ellen Pyle until a few months ago, after learning that the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington was exhibiting some of her original illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post. For me, the…