MEAD SCHAEFFER PRELIMINARY ORIGINAL ART FOR PAINTING.
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Auction #205 - Part II
Item numbers 1427 through 3167 in auction 205
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Item Description
14.25x18.25" vintage textured wood frame has 8.75x12.75" opening revealing litho pencil, colored pencil and watercolor preliminary art showing bride and groom standing in living room. c. 1930s. Art is signed in ballpoint pen at right corner of frame "Mead Schaeffer". Vintage frame has narrow cracks at four inside corners. Fine. Image area has a few hairline pencil lines as done by the artist for composition, otherwise art is Fine/VF. Mead Schaeffer (1898-1980) was a book and magazine illustrator from early to mid 20th century. He was a personal friend of Norman Rockwell and Schaeffer and his family often posed as models for Rockwell's Saturday Evening Posts illustrations. Schaeffer illustrated several books for publisher Dodd-Mead between 1922 and 1930 and for the next twenty years worked as a magazine illustrator. Interesting use of light and shadow.
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