Jun 09, 2022 - Sale 2608

Sale 2608 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 162
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350

ED VEBELL (1921-2018)

"What is the best way to use time?"

Double-page illustration for "They know what time is for" by Loula Grace Erdman, published in the Christian Herald, August 1961. Mixed media, including charcoal and pencil on paper. 270x650 mm; 10 3/4x25 1/2 inches, on 14 3/4x27-inch sheet. Signed "Ed Vebell" in lower right image. Hinged to board; matted and framed. A printed tear sheet of the illustration, a signed Christmas card from the artist to the Tippits, and an October 13, 2010 Westport News newspaper clipping discussing the honoring of Vebell at the Westport Arts Awards accompany the lot.

Provenance: Estate of William F. Brown and Tina Tippit Brown.