
Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration
First Airplane Ride
Session begins in
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.
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