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ETHEL BETTS BAINS.

“Fall Planting Number.” Cover for

House

and Garden

magazine, published October,

1923. Oil on canvas. 559x508 mm; 22x20

inches. Signed “Ethel F.B. Bains” in lower

right. Framed.

[5,000/7,500]

Bains (1877-1959) was an illustrator active for

just 10 years during the Golden Age of

Illustration. She studied under Howard Pyle and

received her first commissions from St. Nicholas

Magazine, Collier’s, and McClure’s before

becoming known for her work with children’s

books. This is a rare, later work, as she only

occasionally continued to illustrate after 1909.

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ERNEST HAMLIN BAKER.

“Insurance.” Proposed cover for and

commissioned by

Time

magazine featuring

Nixon as President following the

uncertainty of the office after Dwight D.

Eisenhower’s heart attack in 1952;

Eisenhower recovered and the image was

never published. Gouache on board.

292x210 mm;11

1

/

2

x8

1

/

4

inches,on 16x12

1

/

2

-

inch board. Signed in lower image, captioned,“NIXON — (‘Insurance’ cover) — in case ‘Ike’

were to die in office” on cover sheet. Registration marks in margins.

[2,000/3,000]

BOOK & MAGAZINE ILLUSTRATION

LOTS 1-52

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JAMES BARKLEY.

“The Collector.” Illustration published in the novel The Estuary Pilgrim by Douglas Skeggs,

1989. Acrylic and watercolor on board. 457x635 mm; 18x25 inches. Signed in image,

lower right.Taped to window matte along verso edges.

[2,500/3,500]

A finely executed depiction of the dealer/expert John Napier’s gallery from Skeggs’s novel about a

violent and mysterious international art fraud involving a painting by Monet (titled “The Estuary

Pilgrim”) thought destroyed, but discovered among other Nazi-appropriated masterpieces in a

Resistance ambush in 1944.

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SEE FRONTISPIECE

]

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Advice to prospective bidders with respect to original art can be found at the back of the catalogue.

Additional images for most lots can be found at

swanngalleries.com