Aug 06, 2003 - Sale 1975

Sale 1975 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 2,530
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY SCRIBNERS FOR MARCH. Circa 1900.
22x141/2 inches. Grignard Litho, New York.
Condition B: paper loss in corners; tears and creases in margins; vertical and horizontal folds. Paper.
Before his meteoric rise to fame as father of the "Christy Girls," the artist was known as a "war illustrator." Christy actually spent time in Cuba during the Spanish American War where he met Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders, and did a series of drawings on the American Revolution for Scribner's. For this cover story on the Boer War Christy most likely worked from a photograph.