Description

This framed and matted charcoal illustration drawing is a unique piece of artwork created by the renowned artist Amos Sewell. The piece is a single-piece work and portrays figures in a gray shade with intricate detailing. The artist's signature can be found on the drawing, indicating the authenticity of the original piece. The drawing is medium-sized, measuring up to 36 inches, and was created in 1901 in the United States. It is part of the illustration art style and was produced using high-quality paper as the painting surface. The piece is listed by a dealer or reseller and is an original production from the artist's collection. Amos Sewell (1901-1983) had a special empathy for children and also particularly enjoyed depicting homespun, rural subjects. These special gifts were ideally combined in the illustrations he made for a series of stories about Babe, Little Joe, Big Joe, and Uncle Pete by R. Ross Annett that ran for over twenty years in The Saturday Evening Post. Sewell was born in San Francisco and studied nights at the California School of Fine Arts, working days in a bank. After some years of this, he decided to try his luck as an illustrator in the East. To get there, he shipped out as a working hand on a lumber boat going by way of the Panama Canal. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League and at the Grand Central School of Art. Among his teachers were Guy Pene DuBois, Julian Levi and Harvey Dunn. At the same time, he began to draw black and white dry-brush illustrations for the Pulp magazines.