Mar 21, 2017 - Sale 2440

Sale 2440 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 3,640
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ORSON LOWELL.
"Puzzling." Cover illustration for Boy's Life magazine, published March 1933. Oil on board. 787x584 mm; 31x23 inches. Signed in lower right image. Occasional soiling and abrasions. Framed. Accompanied by a puzzle bearing the same image and the tear sheet of the cover.

Additional Details

Lowell (1871-1956) was an active illustrator for six decades. He was a member of The New Rochelle Artist Colony which also included his friends Norman Rockwell, Coles Phillips, and J.C. Leyendecker. Lowell's steady stream of clients appreciated the quiet humor that infused his works. He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2010.