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WILLIAM H. D. KOERNER.
“They silently permitted the still indignant principal to herd them out of the building.”
Oil on canvas. 838x610 mm; 33x24 inches. Illustration for the story “According to Code:
A Limpy Randall Story,” by William Johnston, as published in Good Housekeeping
magazine,Volume 62, January 1916, on page 281. SignedW. H. D. Koerner and dated 1915,
lower right. In original wooden canvas frame, verso contains title in pencil, three small
expert canvas repairs, and a few areas of soiling and faint dampstaining.
[2,500/3,500]
Koerner illustrated many of Johnston’s stories about Edward Haverford (“Limpy”) Randall, a plucky
and determined schoolboy with a crippled leg, for Good Housekeeping in the 1910s.
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MELA KOEHLER.
Winter Tidings. Watercolor and ink on
paper. 229x175 mm; 9x6
7
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8
inches, sheet.
Signed in image, lower left, from Vienna.
Circa 1905.
[250/350]
A charming scene of a boy and girl bundled up
and bearing winter blooms for a visit. Koehler
studied with Koloman Moser at the Wiener
Kunstgewerbeschule and later joined him at the
WienerWerkstätte where she became one of their
most talented and prolific artists of illustration,
textiles and ceramics.
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