Sale 2480 - Illustration Art, June 5, 2018

22 c RICHARD STONE. Welcome Home! Original illustration for American Airlines, 1956. Casein on board. 470x381 mm; 18 1 / 2 x15 inches, on 20x17 1 / 2 -inch board. Signed “R.F. Stone” in lower left image. Adhesive residue in margins. [700/1,000] Stone (1925 - ) “studied both at the New York Art Students League and at Yale University, where he earned a B.F.A. His paintings are assured and subtle, carefully simplified, always in good taste. He successfully combines the traditional accomplishments of good drawing and academic painting that holds its own with contemporary techniques” – Walter Reed “The Illustrator in America” (New York: The Society of Illustrators, 2001).