Paul Ashbrook Original Mixed Media Illustration "Noah's Ark"
Item Details
An original folding graphite, watercolor, and gouache illustration on paperboard by listed artist Paul Ashbrook (American, 1867 – 1949), titled Noah’s Ark. The central portion of the piece depicts a bright color illustration of a rainbow boat with the piece’s title and a white dove overlaid. Folding flaps to each side have gestural illustrations of animals across them, though the right panels have come detached. The illustration is presented without matting or framing and is currently housed in an acetate sleeve for safekeeping. It is unsigned, and is stamped ‘R.W. Ashbrook Foundation’ to the verso of the illustration’s paperboard; R.W. Ashbrook is the artist’s son. It is also noted ‘Bulletin April 1950 in graphite’ to its verso. Ashbrook was born in New York in 1867, his given name being Paul Von Eschenbach. He studied at the Art Students League, under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, then later at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Frank Duveneck. Early in the 1920s, he worked for the Stonebridge Lithographic Company designing posters for the Barnum and Bailey Circus before traveling in Europe and Mexico, in the later 1920s.
Condition
- to poor; right section of illustration has entirely detached. Light yellowing, smudging, ripping, creasing, and foxing across.
Dimensions
- measured folded for shipping. Flat, piece measures 44" W x 10" H.
Item #
17CIN462-342
