Jan 23, 2014 - Sale 2337

Sale 2337 - Lot 152

Price Realized: $ 2,048
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ANDREW LOOMIS.
Two paintings of "Tiny Tawker." Original oil and canvas on board illustrations of the helpful gnome and a young brother and sister, for his Tiny Tawker calendar of 1955-56. Each 508x609 mm; 20x24 inches, mounted to board, one Signed, lower right. Colors bright and fresh with very minor surface rubbing.

Additional Details

American illustrator, author, and art instructor Loomis, best known for his popular "how-to" books, created a series of calendars for Brown & Bigelow in the 1950s. In them, a gnome named Tiny Tawker led children through a series of adventures or instruction aimed at teaching them good social and personal habits.