Search Results: Titles starting with G from Schulson Autographs

Chester Gould, Original Cartoon Drawing Signed. of B. O. Plenty, one of the recurring characters in the long running Dick Tracy comic strip. Gould rendered B.O. Plenty. in blue ink on a white 4 x 6 inch card. He inscribed above the hat and signed at the shirt collar of his not so savory character, "Chester Gould." Gravel Girty was Plenty's wife. Gould's sketch capture's his character clearly. Autograph

George Grosz Autograph Letter Signed with original art. The artist turns a friendly letter into a colorful sketch of a watercolor pencil crossed with a paintbrush. Mixing German and English and red, blue, green, and purple, he tells his friend, "you are one of the few people who do not bore me. Everybody just talks stupidly 'intellectual' picked up from their TV commentations...you in any case old boy (hands on the trouser seam) [standing at attention] you old boy, THANKS, also in Eva's name for the lovely (sadly ever scarcer) evening. War OKAY...Not too long. Time is running out...." He signs, "George." Eva refers to Grosz's wife. Below his signature, Grosz draws the brush with purple bristles crossing the watercolor pencil facing the opposite direction. The crossed brush and pencil may be a reference to crossed swords suggesting that the pen and brush are also deadly weapons. Near his signature, Grosz added a small collage element, initialed in purple with an arrow following "G.G." The initialed… Read More

Platt Lynes' Photograph of writer and friend Katherine Anne Porter is  Signed by Porter and dated 1939.  Platt Lynes had become a successful commercial photographer, but In his private life he was accumulating a  fine collection of  photographs of gay men which was donated to the Kinsey Institute after Platt Lynes death in 1955. He has since been recognized for his  portraits  of male nudes. This elegant image of Porter shows her in evening gown seated in profile with a bouquet in lower left foreground. She is posed next to the floral arrangement looking contemplatively towards the right. She signs in a free area of the upper right corner, "For...From Katherine Anne, Sprint 1939." "George Platt Lynes" with address is stamped on verso with docketing below in pencil indicating the photograph is that of Porter.  The photograph measures   7 x 9 inches.  Condition: Fine with slight bend at lower right corner.  . Autograph

Decorative Letterhead Invoices from various companies for services or products rendered to New York City government departments in the Gilded Age. The city departments include the Board of Education, Brooklyn Fire Dept., City College of New York, Aqueduct Commission. Overall condition is good, usual aging with occasional corner chipping and several show tears at margin folds. The invoices offer a glimpse into the workings of city government. Autograph

Each platinum print is made from a negative of an Evans photograph and is docketed on verso with Evans title and original date. Tice's photographer's stamp also shows on two of four prints. The numbered working prints correspond to the photographs in the portfolio Tice produced for the Lee Witkin Gallery, "Ten Photographs," New York: Witkin Gallery, 1971. Each photograph is numbered, titled, and several include comments. The Evans' photographs are: "2. New Forest, 1893 Color OK". "4. Hedgerow Study Circa 1890"; "7. Kelmscott Manor: Thro' A Window in the Tapestry Room, 1896 (Color OK)" "10. Redlands Woods, 1893. George Tice, (b. 1938) American Fine Art Photographer. Autograph