ED VEBELL The Crowd Looked on in Horror

Sale 2423 - Lot 144

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ED VEBELL.
The Crowd Looked on in Horror. A story illustration for Mirror Magazine, intended to be published in March of 1953, with their stamp in lower margin. Gouache, pen, ink and wash on board. 445x343 mm; 17 1/2x13 1/2 inches, on 21 1/4x17 1/4-inch board. Signed in lower right image. Publication notations in margins. Framed.

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Vebell (1921- ) is an American illustrator, veteran, and Olympic athlete who attended the Chicago Institute of Art before enlisting.While serving in the Army, he was a contributing artist for Stars & Stripes magazine, working side by side with Bill Mauldin. His second major appointment was as courtroom artist for the Nuremburg Trials; his haunting portrait of Hermann Göring can be viewed at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. Over the decades following the war, Vebell designed 16 circulated postage stamps for the US Postal Service, and enjoyed frequent commissions from Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, and Time.