Sale 2495 - Illustration Art, December 6, 2018

140 c FLORENCE WHITE WILLIAMS. Enchanted holiday prance. Design for a holiday card, circa 1930. Gouache on paper. 343x253 mm; 13 1 / 2 x10 inches, image. Framed to 21x18 1 / 4 inches. [600/900] A bright and colorful design of a mother and daughter on fanciful reindeer with elaborate candelabra and ornamentation displayed upon their horns. The Vermont-born Williams was an accomplished and award-winning painter, illustrator, designer, and teacher. She studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with Henry Snell, John Carlson, and Ames Aldrich, where she was active in the South Side Art Association and the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts. Her work was exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago. In Boston, she was a prize- winner in the Boston Line Greeting Card Contest where she likely designed this charming image. 140 141 c (AMERICAN ILLUSTRATOR.) Waiting for Christmas cards. Oil on canvas. 455x350mm; 18x14 inches. Framed to 21 3 / 4 x17 3 / 4 inches. [400/600] 142 c EDWARD WILSON. “Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide wide sea.” Story illustration for Part IV of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (New York: The Heritage Press, 1945). Pen, ink, and wash on board. 305x191 mm; 12x7 1 / 2 inches, on 18x13 1 / 2 -inch board. Artist’s stamp in lower margin and on verso. Framed. Provenance: From the collection of the Society of Illustrators; gifted to the institution by the artist. [800/1,000] 141 142