Showing posts with label Haddon Sundblom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haddon Sundblom. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Heritage Auctions Signature Illustration Art Sale New York Preview

On Wednesday evening, Heritage Auctions held a reception at its Park Avenue gallery space. The Dallas-based auction house offered its New York audience a preview featuring highlights of the Signature Illustration Art sale coming up on November 4. (There was some other work here, as well.) The pieces looked wonderful in person. Come, have a look at some of them.

Frank Frazetta

Eugene Iverd

Charles Addams

Edward Sorel

E. H. Shepard

Chesley Bonestell

Gil Elvgren

Olivia De Berardinis

George Petty

Charles Dana Gibson

Harrison Fisher

F. X. Leyendecker

J. C. Leyendecker

J. C. Leyendecker

Harvey Dunn

Dean Cornwell

Gerald Brom

The Brothers Hildebrandt

Thomas Taylor

Neal Adams
Comic Art Signature Auction

Attributed to Haddon Sundblom

Patrick Nagel

The Brothers Hildebrandt (far left), Charles Dana Gibson, N. C. Wyeth, and E. H. Shepard

 

Note:  We're in luck! The entire Heritage Auctions Signature Illustration Art sale coming November 4 may be viewed here.








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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Haddon Sundblom: All a Girl Needs

Haddon Sundblom was an illustrator who is still well known today for his Santa Claus advertising campaign for Coca-Cola. There were of course, many other aspects to his work as an artist. Here is an illustration of an emotionally difficult moment between a mother and daughter from 1942 for Ladies' Home Journal. Sundblom was careful painting faces and figures, but he resorted to a more painterly, impressionistic style in rendering the comforter and furniture in the light-dappled room.

The painting was just recently offered at Illustration House in their December 10 sale. Auction results still haven't been posted. I wonder what's going on over there.



Lot 35Haddon Sundblom1899-1976
Mother comforting teen daughter.
Story illustration: “All A Girl Needs”, Ladies’ Home Journal, August 1942, p. 20;
Oil on canvas, 29.75 x 22.5", signed lower left
Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000
Story title, date and page number and “J7917” written verso; also alternate title, date and page: “Butternut Jane June p. 23”
Condition - Very good overall: has light surface soil; framed.





Note:  My previous post on Haddon Sundblom, ...Talk About Being Good, is here.


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Sunday, December 25, 2011

...Talk About Being Good!

Coca-Cola began featuring Santa Claus in its advertising in the 1920's, with the intention of showing that Coke could be enjoyed in the winter as well as in the summertime. In 1931, Haddon Sundblom began painting the annual Santa campaign. His images are captivating to this day. ...Talk about being good!

Haddon Sundblom, Coca-Cola ad, The New Yorker, December 15, 1951
Haddon Sundblom, Original 1951 artwork, Coca-Cola Company Archives

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