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Original Published 1-sheet Poster Art Oil Painting for Fort Apache (Argosy Pictures, 1948)
Auction: 11/04/2021 - 11/7/2021
Lot: 88214
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Harold von Schmidt AUCTION RECORDS
1893 Alameda, California - 1982 Westport, Connecticut. Known for: Western painting, illustration.
For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan,... Read full biography
For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel,... Read full biography
For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, and was commissioned in 1960 to design the Pony Express commemorative stamp for the United States postal service. Born in 1893 in Alameda, California, Von Schmidt was... Read full biography
For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, and was commissioned in 1960 to design the Pony Express commemorative stamp for the United States postal service. Born in 1893 in Alameda, California, Von Schmidt was orphaned at five. He was raised by his grandfather and an aunt who encouraged his interest in art. As a young man, he spent his summers working as a lumberjack, cowpuncher and construction worker. After two years' study with F.H. Meyers at the California... Read full biography
For more than half a century, the illustrations and paintings of Harold Von Schmidt were familiar to the American public. His work appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Sunset, Cosmopolitan, American and other magazines for 20 years, beginning in 1925. He also illustrated Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop, and was commissioned in 1960 to design the Pony Express commemorative stamp for the United States postal service. Born in 1893 in Alameda, California, Von Schmidt was orphaned at five. He was raised by his grandfather and an aunt who encouraged his interest in art. As a young man, he spent his summers working as a lumberjack, cowpuncher and construction worker. After two years' study with F.H. Meyers at the California College of Arts and Crafts*, Von Schmidt did his first cover design in 1913 for Sunset maga... Read full biography
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Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeGeneral Doug MacArthur, Look Magazine cover, March 20, 1945
Harold von Schmidt Auction: 07/31/2013 - 8/1/2013Lot: 76165Subscribe or get free alerts
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