Swann Galleries - Illustration Art - Sale 2372 - January 22, 2015

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12 ● JAMES NEIL BOYLE.
Hatted ladies before St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Mixed media. 463x414 mm; 181/4x161/4 inches.
Used for advertising by Lester Rossin Associates, NewYork. Unsigned but stamped and
designated on verso. Early 1960s. [500/750]
11 ● JAMES NEIL BOYLE.
Bikini.Acrylic and colored pencil. 610x470
mm; 24x181/2 inches. Illustration for
advertising commissioned by Lester
Rossin Associates, New York. Signed in
image, lower right. Old matte attached to
perimeter. Early 1960s. [500/750]
Boyle was an important and prolific illustrator for
over two decades.His work appeared on the covers
of The Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest,
Good Housekeeping, in Rand Corporation
publications, on U.S. Commemorative Stamps,
forWalt Disney Productions, and in documentary
paintings commissioned by the U. S. Air Force
Historical Program held in the Smithsonian
Institute and the Pentagon. He won a Lifetime
Achievement Award from The Society of
Illustrators of LosAngeles—Reed,The Illustrator
in America 1860-2000, page 337.
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