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FREDERIC DANA MARSH.
Derby Day. Mixed media with watercolor, ink, and metallic paint. 127x610 mm; 5x24
inches. Study for a mural. Initialed lower right image and stamped on verso. Marsh’s stamp
and that of The Co-Operative MuralWorkshop on verso. Matted and framed. Circa 1910.
[600/900]
The great muralist and artist of industrial genre paintings was also the father of artists Reginald
and James.This charming study for a mural features elegantly clad attendees in and surrounding a
gazebo at a horse race.
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LIBERTY MAGAZINE
(attributed to Ruth Eastman).
Cover study for Liberty Magazine, Oct 3,
1925. Oil on board with label paste-ups.
349x247 mm;13
3
/
4
x9
3
/
4
inches.Slightly bowed
and with some surface soiling and light
scuffing, small chip to lower right margin. A
charming mock-up of the Ruth Eastman
cover showing a fashionable young woman
contemplating a tempting ice cream soda
while clutching her diet book (here titled
simply “Diet”; on the cover it was published
as “How to StayThin.”).
[250/350]
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ARNOLD LOBEL.
“Three Little Kittens” * “Anna Elise, She
Jumped with Joy.”Watercolor, pen and ink on
heavy paper. Kittens is 279x432 mm; 11x17
inches, image, on 13
1
/
4
x20 inch sheet.Anna is
7
1
/
4
x8 inches, image, on 9
1
/
2
x17
1
/
4
sheet. Both
illustrations fromThe Arnold Lobel Book of
Mother Goose. Pencil rules and printing
notations in margins of both drawings. 1986.
[1,200/1,800]
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