Dean Cornwell (American, 1892-1960). "'Gad,' said Heseltine to Peril, 'If the doctor can only keep me going long enough,'"...

Description

Dean Cornwell (American, 1892-1960)
"'Gad,' said Heseltine to Peril, 'If the doctor can only keep me going long enough,'" The Garden of Peril, Cosmopolitan Magazine interior illustration, April 1923
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: Dean / Corn / Well 23

PROPERTY FROM THE SORDONI COLLECTION

PROVENANCE:
American Illustrators Gallery, New York;
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

EXHIBITED:
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, "Selections from the Sordoni Collection: American Illustration & Comic Art," April 7-May 20, 2018.

LITERATURE:
C. Stockley, "The Garden of Peril," Cosmopolitan, New York, April 1923, p. 23, illustrated;
C. Stockley, The Garden of Peril: A Story of the African Veld, New York, 1924, p. 19, illustrated;
P.J. Broder, Dean Cornwell: The Dean of Illustrators, New York, 1978, p. 48, illustrated;
S.I. Grand, Selections from the Sordoni Collection: American Illustration & Comic Art, exhibition catalogue, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 2018, pp. 28-29, 135, no. 7, 10, illustrated.


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