ARTIST: Edgar Franklin Whitmack (New York, 1894 - 1956)
TITLE: Sunset Coastal Cityscape
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: One small puncture by the lower left corner. Few small damages to the edges and corners of canvas. Few small scratches/paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 25 x 30 inches / 63 x 76 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
LOCATION: This lot is located at our Dania Beach, FL office.
NAME VARIANTS: Edgar Franklin Whittmack
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer
SKU#: 135769
US SHIPPING: $95 + insurance.

BIOGRAPHY:
Edgar Franklin Wittmack was an illustrator and cover artist for many of the most popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. His covers, just as the artwork of his contemporary, Norman Rockwell, were usually created as oil paintings.Both cover artists specialized in fiction-oriented magazines. Rockwell, drawing on the viewer's imagination, created humorous or unique situations of small town life, mainly thru his covers for the Saturday Evening Post. Wittmack, known for creating numerous covers for such "slick" magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, American Boy, Outdoor Life, Liberty etc.