ARTIST: Dan C Sweeney (California, 1880 - 1958)
TITLE: Illustration
MEDIUM: watercolor on board
CONDITION: One scratch. Some faint foxing. Minor age toning.
ART SIZE: 10 x 15 inches / 25 x 38 cm
FRAME SIZE: 15 x 20 inches / 38 x 50 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Dan Sweeney, a native of Sacramento, California, began his career as a newspaper illustrator for the San Francisco Chronicle.Sweeney also painted posters for theater lobbies, which led to doing travel posters. He began work for several steamship lines and traveled around the world, to many out-of-the-way places, doing background research for unusual poster subjects. One of his most successful series of pictures was of pirate subjects for the Grace Lines.For many years, Sweeney was a steady contributor of fiction illustrations to Collier's magazine, particularly of sea and Western subjects rendered in wash or transparent watercolor.Most of Dan Sweeney's illustrations were done for newspapers and magazines as the San Francisco Chronicle, Collier's, Overboard Monthly, World Traveler and others. He also did theater and travel posters and other illustrations. He was considered a specialist in western and marine subjects.