CHARLES DAVIS MITCHELL. Couple with martinis. Pencil on board. 425x590 mm; 169 1/2x23 inches. Signed lower right. Some uneven tanning, two corners nicked. Likely magazine illustration. Nd.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, Charles D. Mitchell came of age at the same time as such sophisticated magazine illustrators as F.R. Gruger, Henry Raleigh, F.C. Yohn and John R. Neill. He began contributing to The Saturday Evening Post in 1907, and drew for many other magazines including The Delineator, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal and McCall's. He was especially in demand for his spirited drawings of elegant young women and handsome men, often languishing in chairs or on sofas and engaged in ardent conversation. See Reed, The Illustrator in America, p. 152.
