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Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Coles Phillips

The Magic Hour - Afternoon Tea

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from The Kelly Collection of American Illustration

Coles Phillips

1880 - 1927


The Magic Hour - Afternoon Tea

signed Coles Phillips (lower right)

gouache on paperboard

20 ¾ by 16 in.

52.7 by 40.6 cm.

Executed in 1924.

Illustration House, Inc., New York, 4 May 1996, lot 47

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C., Art of the Illustrator: Works from the Kelly Collection, 1997, no. 20

Roanoke, Art Museum of Western Virginia, Art of the Illustrator, 1850-1950, 1998-99

Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Norman Rockwell Museum, Norman Rockwell and the Artists of New Rochelle, 2002

New York, The Dahesh Museum of Art, Stories to Tell: Masterworks from the Kelly Collection of American Illustration, 2006

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. 72, illustrated in color

"The Magic Hour - Afternoon Tea," Ladies Home Journal, November 1924, p. 72, illustrated

Walt Reed, Illustrators in America 1880-1980, New York, p. 106, illustrated in color

Michael Schau, All-American Girl - The Art of Coles Phillips, New York, 1975, p. 112, illustrated in color

Daniel Zimmer, “The Art of Coles Phillips,” Illustrated Magazine, vol. 16, no. 65: summer 2019, p. 8, illustrated in color