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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Joseph Christian Leyendecker

First Airplane Ride

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November 21, 07:00 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Bid

110,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Joseph Christian Leyendecker

1874 - 1951


First Airplane Ride

signed JC Leyendecker (lower left)

oil on canvas

26 ½ by 18 ⅝ in.

67.3 by 47.3 cm.

Executed in 1909.

Judy & Alan Goffman Fine American Paintings, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Brandywine Fantasy Gallery, Chicago

Acquired from the above in July 1993 by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, Art of the Illustrator: Works from the Kelly Collection, 1997, no. 18, illustrated in color (on back cover)

Malibu, Pepperdine University, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Illustrating Modern Life: The Golden Age of American Illustration from the Kelly Collection, 2013, p. 60, illustrated in color

Collier's, 28 August 1909, illustrated on the cover

Michael Schau, J.C. Leyendecker, New York, 1974, p. 165, illustrated

Susan E. Meyer, America's Great Illustrators, New York, 1987, p. 157, illustrated

Kent Steine and Frederic B. Taraba, American Illustrators Poster Book: The J.C. Leyendecker Collection, Portland, 1996, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Flying in Style)

Laurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 177, illustrated

The present work was published as the cover illustration of the August 28, 1909 issue of Collier's magazine.