Antique Benjamin Kilvert Girl Violinist W/C Illustration Painting

Description: Click photos for larger image! Description & Condition: Art Collection of Carl PuglieseCarl was an American painter and illustrator who was friends with other illustrators including Norman Price, Tom Lovell, Dean Cornwell, Howard Pyle, J C Leyendecker and many others. I will be listing many pieces from his collection.Benjamin Kilvert New York, Ontario Canada artist (1879-1946)Up for sale is this original watercolor on paper laid on cardboard illustration painting for Green Book Magazine. It depicts a young girl playing the violin. It measures 8 " by 10" and is in very good condition. It is signed lower left and is already matted. Matting measures 15 1/4" by 12 1/2". It is titled and has a stamp from the magazine showing it was published. Please view all the photos and if you have any questions please ask. Here is some info on the artist: Benjamin Sayre Cory Kilvert was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in 1879 and died in New York City in 1946. He was the son of Francis Edwin Kilvert, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (1877-78), Conservative Member of Parliament (1878-1887) and Collector of His Majesty's Customs for the Port of Hamilton (1887-1910).As a very young man, Kilvert left Canada to study at the Art Students' League in New York City where his instructor was Robert Henri (1865-1929) a member of the so-called Eight, whose members in painting life as it actually appears without making any attempt to romanticize it were stigmatized as "The Ashcan School." Kilvert was strongly influenced by this approach to painting as were many of Henri's other students who included George Bellows, Rockwell Kent and Edward Hopper.Kilvert was extremely well known for his illustrations that appeared in many books and magazines in both the U.S. and Canada from, roughly, 1902 to the mid-1930s.He was less well known as a fine arts painter, but his work was greatly respected by critics and his fellow artists. He was a member of The American Watercolor Society and also of two prestigious organizations for artists and writers, namely the Salmagundi Club and the Dutch Treat Club, both of which were located in New York City where he lived for many years. A painting of his is in the collection of the Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine, which, arguably, holds the best collection of Maine art in the U.S. and probably the entire world.Kilvert, his wife and two children summered for many years on the coast of southern Maine where he created many of his paintings. In his earlier years in Upstate New York, he worked in oils and tempera and created landscapes and still lifes. In later years, he turned to watercolors, and this proved to be his best medium. He painted many fine seascapes in Maine, and in the fall and winter of 1934, he painted scenes of Charleston, South Carolina, where he and his family went so he could recover from a heart attack.In the early 1930s, he was commissioned to paint several very large illustrated maps. Specifically, these showed the history of the St. Lawrence River Valley in Canada (this was done for a steamship company in Canada and was in the stairwell of one of its transatlantic ships, the name of which is no longer known). He also did two maps for the Pine Valley Golf Club in Pine Valley, New Jersey. One of these shows the Pine Valley course, and the other shows the St. Andrew's course in Scotland. Each of these clubs thinks the other's golf course is the second best one in the entire world. So it's doubtful if this difference of opinion will ever change.Kilvert's son, Benjamin Sayre Cory Kilvert, Jr., has in his possession an illustrated map of the Belvoir Hunt in England that Kilvert's widow bought at a Sotheby auction in New York City in the 1950s. No information is available on who commissioned it in 1931, but it may have been the Duke of Rutland whose ancestral home is Belvoir Castle in Lincolnshire. It's possible that he put it in the auction to raise some cash, but this is only a guess. This particular map measures 5 by 6 feet and is painted on wood.There is a fine Kilvert oil painting in the lobby of the Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street in New York City. It hangs over the two elevators and shows a scene of galleons a popular subject for several artists in the 1920s who interpreted the discovery of the New World with canvases showing galleons at sea and in port.Cory Kilvert died in 1946 at the Salmagundi Club in New York City while playing pool with some of his artist friends. In the 1970s, one of his illustrations was included in an exhibit of renderings by North America artists at the New York (City) Historical Society. THANK YOU FOR BEING INTERESTED IN MY AUCTION, BE SURE CHECK OUT OUR OTHER AUCTIONS FOR MORE INTERESTING ESTATE FRESH ANTIQUES AND COLLECTIBLES LISTED JUST ABOUT EVERY NIGHT ON E-BAY!!! Please take a minute to read below, it explains just about everything you will need to know to be sure we will always provide great merchandise, competent service, guaranteed items and rectify any issues at hand for all of our customers no matter the size of the purchase!!! 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Price: 268 USD

Location: Rumford, Rhode Island

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