Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 5,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
LOVELL, TOM (1909-1997) "On today's farm; aluminum rules the roost." Gouache on board; 20 x 21 inches. Illustration for the Aluminum Limited advertising campaign, 1959. Signed lower left. Tom Lovell was a highly successful contributor to the pulp fiction and slick magazines. He served in the Marine Corps Reserves during World War II, and contributed to the USMC magazine, The Leatherneck. He devoted his later years to depicting Native and other Western subjects. He ventured into advertising such as providing the art for print ads like the Aluminum Limited that appeared in various magazines, including The Atlantic in June 1959. 1959