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Frederic Gruger illustration,

(Frederic Rodrigo Gruger, Pennsylvania, 1871-1953), "She felt sure this careless speech masked a sentimentalism intensely congenial to her own", from Stephen Whitman, [Children of Hope,] published in [The Century Magazine,] November, 1915, illustrated page 16, signed lower right "F.R. Gruger", gouache on card, 11-3/8 x 7-3/4 in.; wood frame. Taped in at edges verso; frame with abrasions. Provenance: The Estate of the Late Margaret D. Gruger, Anderson, South Carolina. See Bennard Perlman, [The Golden Age of American Illustration: F.R. Gruger and His Circle], North Light Publishers, Wesport, Connecticut, 1978, illustrated on page 98; book accompanies lot.