A selection of our fine art collection
Featuring original works of art and prints by many influential artists, including Charles Addams, Edmund Dulac, Rea Irvin, Henri Matisse, and Andy Warhol. Presenting a wide range of mediums from the more simplistic ink silhouette to the exquistely detailed watercolor.
Price: $550
George R. Benda worked in New York at the end of the 19th century; he specialized in designs in silver, many for the noted firm of Black, Starr & Frost - Gorham, and other ornamental metalwork, such as this fine example. Read More Item Details for Original drawing of a Tea Pot heightened in white Add to Wish List
Item #304075
Price: $6,000
Ca. 1910. Brehm, Worth. Published by Harper & Brothers in their edition of 1910. Original Tom Sawyer Illustration by Worth Brehm. A splendid drawing showing Huck and the old Welshman sitting in the latter's parlor at the moment Huck realizes the man has seen through his story of having seen..... Read More Item Details for FINE ORIGINAL CHARCOAL DRAWING, “MY BOY, DON'T BE AFRAID OF ME”, FROM THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, signed upper right Add to Wish List
Item #12730
Price: $3,000
Birmingham, England: 1904. Brockhurst, Gerald Leslie. Painted by Gerald L. Brockhurst at Age 14. This remarkable watercolor was done by Brockhurst while studying at the Birmingham Municipal School of Art. Notes Wildman: “At the turn of the century, the so-called Birmingham Group, mostly staff and students of the School, had..... Read More Item Details for Joan of Arc after Sir Frederic Leighton , "A Condottiere." Add to Wish List
Item #22301
![Item #224401 The Nightmare [Original signed print]. R. Crumb](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/224401.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1300483707)
Price: $900
[San Francisco: n.d., early 1970s]. No. 67 of 75, numbered and signed by the artist (“R. Crumb”) in pencil beneath the image. Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75. Striking and characteristic R. Crumb image, the great American underground cartoonist’s hommage to Fuseli’s celebrated painting of the same title, rendered in a...... Read More Item Details for The Nightmare [Original signed print] Add to Wish List
Item #224401
Price: $400
[1903]. Jules Renard, who later formed his name "Draner" as an anagram of his surname Renard, a name that he used all his life in all his drawings, as seen in this cartoon, was a famous illustrator for numerous famous newspapers in France. Read More Item Details for Cartoon of Uncle Sam or Brother Jonathan performing a trick with balls of Panama, Haiti and Cuba Add to Wish List
Item #302145
Price: $2,000
1829. Augustin Amant Edouart was a French-born portrait artist who began making silhoutte portraits in London in 1825. In 1829 he moved to Edinburgh, where he worked for three years before traveling in the United States and then moving back to France. Edouart's silhouttes, cut out from black paper by..... Read More Item Details for SILHOUETTE of a Gentleman and his dog Add to Wish List
Item #225289
Price: $4,500
London: Done for the George G. Harrap Co. limited edition of 125 copies, 1940. Stephen Gooden (1892-1955) was the most accomplished line engraver of his time. He illustrated a number of books, among them the Nonesuch Press Bible, the Rubaiyat, the Fables of La Fontaine, George Moore's The Brook Kerith..... Read More Item Details for Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Add to Wish List
Item #237159
Price: $600
Heath, William. Read More Item Details for “I do think there’s a confounded rat in the room!” Add to Wish List
Item #14124
Price: $3,000
New York: n.d. [ca. 1890s]. Watercolor designs in Classical, Romantic, and Chinoise styles for leather screens manufactured by George D. Thompson & Co. The company letterhead advertises “Hand tooled and painted chair leathers and wall panels … Period designs, still life flower, bird & fruit panels, hand painted bellows, trays..... Read More Item Details for Watercolor drawings of leather screens made for George D. Thompson & Co. of 464 Fourth Avenue, New York Add to Wish List
Item #249781
Price: $7,500
[New York]: 1929. Irvin (1881-1972) was the first art editor of the New Yorker magazine and created its first cover — featuring the magazine's mascot Eustace Tilly — and many others. Most of his original art was donated to institutions and rarely comes on the market. “The invaluable Irvin, artist..... Read More Item Details for “This Day in History — Orpheus Invents the Recital, February, 10, 5287 B.C.” Add to Wish List
Item #237262
Price: $1,500
England: 1930s. Four Ecclesiastical Watercolor Drawings. Four stained glass designs by John Hardman & Co., formerly part of Hardman, Powell & Co. The company reached great popularity in the Victorian period making ecclesiastical fittings and ornaments for churches throughout England. The firm's interest in Gothic Revival led them to stained..... Read More Item Details for Designs for Stained Glass Window Add to Wish List
Item #232341
Price: $400
New York: April, 1890. Kemble, E. W. Edward Windsor Kemble (1861-1933) is best-known for his superb illustrations of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Puddin’ Head Wilson, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and several of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. He was a self-taught artist, whose work “reveals a...... Read More Item Details for Pen and Ink Drawing: "A Lufamé slave-hunter." Illustration for E. J. Glave's "The Slave-Trade in the Congo Basin," By One of Stanley's Pioneer Officers. The Century Magazine, April 1890, page 831. . Signed lower right "Kemble." Also reproduced at p. 196 of Glave's In Savage Africa; or, Six Years of Adventure in Congo-Land. Ny.; Russell, [1892] Add to Wish List
Item #266843
Price: $1,000
n.p, [n.d.]. Rackham, Arthur. Original Arthur Rackham Drawing. From the estate of his late daughter, Barbara Rackham Edwards. Read More Item Details for A Saucy Young Woman in a Hat, black chalk on paper Add to Wish List
Item #13621
Price: $1,000
n.p: n.d, ca. early 1940s. Fine Original Watercolor by Gordon Ross. Ross illustrated Charles Lamb's The Complete Elia for the Heritage Press in 1943. Gordon Ross (1873-1946) was a prolific artist, working mostly in watercolor, from his early days in his native Scotland. As a book artist he tackled everything..... Read More Item Details for ORIGINAL pencil, crayon and watercolor illustration. Caption reads "Cheerful Cries of London" and below "the London Cries-The Milkmaid-general London Street scene of Lamb's day-'Poor drudges whom I have left behind'-Top of page 177." Add to Wish List
Item #41408
Price: $1,500
No place: [ca. 1950]. Fine New Yorker Cover Design. Although this is a preparatory drawing, it is a well-rendered, lively, and highly decorative image, consisting of a montage of fall motifs: colorful foliage, spacious skies, amber grain, purple mountains, fruited plains, a church, a silo, a school complete with child..... Read More Item Details for Fine pencil, ink and watercolor design for a New Yorker cover Add to Wish List
Item #12776
Price: $250
ca. 1948. Not one of the 14 prints included in “Le Cirque”. Read More Item Details for Lithograph: Depicting a male and a female circus performer in the ring Add to Wish List
Item #211559
Price: $850
American: c. 1830. Read More Item Details for Watercolor: "Taylor Birds w. fruits bearing Convolvulus ." Add to Wish List
Item #61632
