Swann Galleries: Illustration Art

Sketch for Madeline. Illustration of Madeline and Miss Clavel in a garden of flowers at the Eiffel Tower.

Nevermore. Cartoon for The New Yorker, published October 29, 1973, subsequently published in Favorite Haunts (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976) and The World of Charles Addams (New York: Knopf, 1999).

It's our first . . . don't you think it looks like George? Calendar illustration for the Thomas D. Murphy Company, 1937, republished in Dr. Seuss, the Cat Behind the Hat, by Caroline M. Smith (Chicago: The Chase Group, 2012).

Print or Perish. Illustration for the cover of Print Magazine, January/February 1988.

The Biggest Star Measured so Far. Original 4-panel "Peanuts" comic strip featuring Linus and Lucy published Nov 21, 1961

Your hero had feet of clay, huh? Original 4-panel "Peanuts" comic strip featuring Charlie Brown and Patty, published May 9, 1963, with United Feature Syndicate, Inc. copyright pastedown in first panel.

All it needs is...Holly Sugar./"Crazy Chef with Pie." Advertisement for Holly Sugar, 1955

Then all the monkeys put on their skis, climbed the tree, and slid down Cecily's back, over and over again. Illustration for Rey's story Rafi et les 9 singes (Paris: Gallimard, 1939).

12 Biographies / A to B. Final illustration appearing on page 251 in his book The Labyrinth (New York: Harper & Bros., 1960) and reprinted by The New York Review of Books (New York, 2019), and reproduced in the exhibition catalogue for "Saul Steinberg: Ap

A Streetcar Named Desire. First color study for the award-winning 1947 production of Tennessee Williams's play.

He led them into the chalk-pit, till they stood at the very foot. Illustration for page 8 from Bertie's Escapade by Kenneth Grahame (Philadelphia & New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1949).

These are my jewels. Calendar illustration for The Thomas D. Murphy Co., Red Oak, Iowa, 1941

Chop Suey. Cover illustration for The New Yorker, published August 27, 1927, with their stamp on verso.

Gorey Stories. Illustration for exhibition poster for Gorey Stories: Books & Drawings by Edward Gorey / October 26, 1984 - March 17, 1985 / The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Leslie Memorial Room.

Sur la Terrasse. Cover illustration for Voguemagazine, published May 10, 1930.

Group of Six Rheem Steel Oil Drum Illustrations. Together, six illustrations commissioned by Rheem Manufacturing Company, likely for a corporate calendar or advertising campaign for an industry publication. Circa 1946-49

Swan Lake. Hunters/Siegfried * "Van Rothbart [Owl]." Together, 2 sheets of costume designs for the 1975 production of Swan Lake, Second Act, (Andre Eglevsky Company, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York, under the direction of Akiro Endo).

The frying-pan just missed her. Story illustration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1901, page 111).

He will not be right back after this message. Illustration for the

Then the black-and-white glimp opened one eye and saw this, and he didn't keep it open very long * Meanwhile the colored glimp was happily admiring a very beautiful picture painted by the great artist. Together, 2 illustrations published in Bemelmans's bo

Via Vittorio Emanuele Alassio. Story illustration for "A Memory of Alassio" by Mary King Waddington, published in Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 60, Issue 4, October, 1916

Breakers. Headpiece illustration for Canto VI of The Courtship of Miles Standish by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920).

Suppiluliumus dozes while the family finishes decorating the fireplace.

Ball Strike Count. Illustration for the article

Saint Sebastian. Costume design for Act 3 of "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian," 1922