Swann Galleries - Illustration Art - Sale 2372 - January 22, 2015

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250 ● EVERETT SHINN.
Three illustrations for Poems of Childhood.
Pen and ink on paper or board. 508x381
mm; 20x15 inches. Comprising: dust jacket
illustration,signed in ink,lower right *“The
Great Explorer”* “A Sudden Shower.”All
illustrated in JamesWhitcomb Riley’s Poems
of Childhood, Grosset & Dunlap: Artist &
Writers Guild, 1943. All with notes in
Shinn’s hand plus other editorial and
printing notes in pencil.A copy of the book
accompanies the lot. [800/1,200]
249 ● EVERETT SHINN.
“Rip Van Winkle.” Pen and ink on paper. 240x330 mm; 9 1/2x13 inches. Initialed lower
right. Image published as vignette on the Foreword of the 1939 publication ofWashington
Irving’s Rip Van Winkle, Garden City Publishing Co., Garden City, New York. Matted
and in a gilt wooden frame. A copy of the book accompanies this lot. [3,500/5,000]
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