ID 1182773
Lot 27 | DEAN CORNWELL (1892-1960)
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
"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.
| Artist: | Dean Cornwell (1892 - 1960) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Category: | Illustrations |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Dean Cornwell (1892 - 1960) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Category: | Illustrations |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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