CHARLES HAND GEER GREEN LADY DUST JACKET ART PAINTING
CHARLES HAND GEER GREEN LADY DUST JACKET ART PAINTING
DETAILS:
- ARTIST: Charles Hand Geer
- BIRTH: American, (1922-2008)
- TITLE: Original Dust Jacket Art: The Green Lady
- SIGNED: Signed, Titled, Annotated: Artist: Charles Geer Box 127 Neavitt, Maryland
21652 (within a circle) Jacket for The Green Lady by Leigh Ellis; Avon Books.
- MEDIUM: Gouache on Illustration Board.
- SIZE: 15-1/8 x 19 In. (artwork) / 19-3/4 x 23 In. (overall)
- CONDITION: Very good to excellent. Blacklights near perfectly. 99.5% original surface paint.
- ADDITIONAL NOTES: This work is featured on the dust jacket of the romance novel The Green Lady by
Leigh Ellis; published in 1981. A copy of The Green Lady by Leigh Ellis; published in 1981 accompanies this lot.
ARTIST BIO:
Charles Hand Geer (August 25, 1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American illustrator of childrens books, two of which he wrote. He also designed numerous book jackets.
Geer grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and then served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute.
Many of the buildings in his illustrations feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic mansard roofs.
Geer lived until his death in 2008 in Rockland, Maine, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors.
Over the years he built several boats.
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED:
• Schoolboy Johnson by John R. Tunis [1]
• Mystery at Redtop Hill, by Marjory Schwalje, 1965
• The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks
• Miss Pickerell on the Moon, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. Pantell
• Wild Geese Flying, by Cornelia Meigs
• That Summer With Lexy!, by Audrey McKim
• McNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford Montgomery
• Sauncey and Mr. King’s Gallery, by Clara Ann Simmons
• The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988
• The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956[2]
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
• Sandro's Battle, by David Scott Daniell, 1962 (jacket only)
• The Pipe Organ in the Parlour, by Lilla Stirling, 1960
• Secret Under Antarctica, by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Secret Raft, by Hazel Krantz
• Plain Girl, by Virginia Sorensen
• Gretchen of Grand Pre, by Lilla Stirling
Also listed as the cover illustrator for “The Lonely Mound,” by William Campbell Gault
Condition Report: Very good to excellent. Blacklights near perfectly. 99.5% original surface paint.
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CHARLES HAND GEER GREEN LADY DUST JACKET ART PAINTING
DETAILS:
- ARTIST: Charles Hand Geer
- BIRTH: American, (1922-2008)
- TITLE: Original Dust Jacket Art: The Green Lady
- SIGNED: Signed, Titled, Annotated: Artist: Charles Geer Box 127 Neavitt, Maryland
21652 (within a circle) Jacket for The Green Lady by Leigh Ellis; Avon Books.
- MEDIUM: Gouache on Illustration Board.
- SIZE: 15-1/8 x 19 In. (artwork) / 19-3/4 x 23 In. (overall)
- CONDITION: Very good to excellent. Blacklights near perfectly. 99.5% original surface paint.
- ADDITIONAL NOTES: This work is featured on the dust jacket of the romance novel The Green Lady by
Leigh Ellis; published in 1981. A copy of The Green Lady by Leigh Ellis; published in 1981 accompanies this lot.
ARTIST BIO:
Charles Hand Geer (August 25, 1922 – December 7, 2008) was an American illustrator of childrens books, two of which he wrote. He also designed numerous book jackets.
Geer grew up on Long Island, New York, attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and then served in the United States Navy during World War II. Following the war he attended art school at the Pratt Institute.
Many of the buildings in his illustrations feature Second Empire architecture, with their characteristic mansard roofs.
Geer lived until his death in 2008 in Rockland, Maine, where he enjoyed sailing and painting watercolors.
Over the years he built several boats.
BOOKS ILLUSTRATED:
• Schoolboy Johnson by John R. Tunis [1]
• Mystery at Redtop Hill, by Marjory Schwalje, 1965
• The Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Kerplop, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Big Chunk of Ice, by Bertrand R. Brinley
• The Marvelous Inventions of Alvin Fernald, by Clifford B. Hicks
• Miss Pickerell on the Moon, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Weather Satellite, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Blue Whales, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the War of the Computers, by Dora F. Pantell
• Miss Pickerell and the Lost World, by Dora F. Pantell
• Wild Geese Flying, by Cornelia Meigs
• That Summer With Lexy!, by Audrey McKim
• McNulty's Holiday, by Rutherford Montgomery
• Sauncey and Mr. King’s Gallery, by Clara Ann Simmons
• The Biggest (and Best) Flag That Ever Flew, by Rebecca C. Jones, 1988
• The Story of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Arthur J. Beckhard, 1956[2]
• Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat
• Sandro's Battle, by David Scott Daniell, 1962 (jacket only)
• The Pipe Organ in the Parlour, by Lilla Stirling, 1960
• Secret Under Antarctica, by Gordon R. Dickson
• The Secret Raft, by Hazel Krantz
• Plain Girl, by Virginia Sorensen
• Gretchen of Grand Pre, by Lilla Stirling
Also listed as the cover illustrator for “The Lonely Mound,” by William Campbell Gault
Condition Report: Very good to excellent. Blacklights near perfectly. 99.5% original surface paint.
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