DEAN CORNWELL (1892-1960)

Lot 27
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Lot 27 | DEAN CORNWELL (1892-1960)
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$ 30 000 – 50 000
DEAN CORNWELL (1892-1960)

"A Strange Sound Drifted Down to Kit from the Top of the Range – A Man’s Voice, Singing"

signed with initials and dated 'DC/24' (lower right)

oil on canvas

36 x 30 in. (91.4 x 76.2 cm.)

Painted in 1924.





Provenance

Illustration House, Inc., New York.

Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1993.



Literature

A. Ellerbe, P. Ellerbe, Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan, "$2,000.00 Reward," March 1925, p. 101, illustrated.

P.J. Broder, Dean Cornwell: Dean of Illustrators, New York, 1978, p. 231.



Exhibited

Malibu, California, Pepperdine University, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Illustrating Modern Life, January 12-March 31, 2013, pp. 15, 39, frontispiece illustration, illustrated again.

Brookings, South Dakota, South Dakota Art Museum; Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum; Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hunter Museum of American Art, Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students, May 5, 2015-September 15, 2016.
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