A Billie Dove original pastel by Ellen Barbara Segner
A Billie Dove original pastel by Ellen Barbara Segner
Pastel on illustration board, signed ("Ellen Segner / Wag"), which appeared on the cover of the September 1930 issue of Cine Mundial, matted and framed. Ellen Barbara Segner was best known for her illustrations in the "Dick and Jane" reading books and for the Sunbeam Bread illustrations featuring "Little Miss Sunbeam," an advertising campaign that began in 1942 and that Sunbeam Bread continues to use today. Segner also illustrated for magazines such as Liberty, and her artwork often depicted the All-American girl engaging in sports and outdoor activities. This stunning work features actress Billie Dove, whose star shone brightly in the 1920s and '30s as a performer in the Ziegfeld Follies, as a film actress who co-starred with Douglas Fairbanks, and as a one-time fiancée to Howard Hughes.
Overall: 21.75 x 25 in.; within mat: 10.5 x 14 in.
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A Billie Dove original pastel by Ellen Barbara Segner
Pastel on illustration board, signed ("Ellen Segner / Wag"), which appeared on the cover of the September 1930 issue of Cine Mundial, matted and framed. Ellen Barbara Segner was best known for her illustrations in the "Dick and Jane" reading books and for the Sunbeam Bread illustrations featuring "Little Miss Sunbeam," an advertising campaign that began in 1942 and that Sunbeam Bread continues to use today. Segner also illustrated for magazines such as Liberty, and her artwork often depicted the All-American girl engaging in sports and outdoor activities. This stunning work features actress Billie Dove, whose star shone brightly in the 1920s and '30s as a performer in the Ziegfeld Follies, as a film actress who co-starred with Douglas Fairbanks, and as a one-time fiancée to Howard Hughes.
Overall: 21.75 x 25 in.; within mat: 10.5 x 14 in.
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