ED VEBELL Yeti on the Tundra

Sale 2423 - Lot 145

Price Realized: $ 585

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

ED VEBELL.
Yeti on the Tundra. Pen, ink, and wash on board, heightened in white. 540x229 mm; 21 1/4x9 inches, on 12x24-inch board. Signed twice in lower image, with artist's stamp on verso. Repaired 3 1/2-inch tear with over painting in lower left image. Mounted to window matte and framed. Nd.

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Vebell (1921- ) is an American illustrator, veteran, and Olympic athlete who attended The Art Institute of Chicago 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.