""Story of a Bad Boy" Book Illustration" Lot no. 2197
By Edward John Prittie (1879-1963)
1927 (Estimated)
27.00" x 18.00"
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
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"We Amused Ourselves for an Hour or More, Darting in and out Among the Crowd and Setting off our Crackers", The Story of a Bad Boy book illustration, 1927
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Edwin John Prittie was an illustrator of children's books and classics for the John C. Winston publishing company of Philadelphia between the years 1906 and 1932. He was also the exclusive cover artist for Comfort Magazine of Augusta Maine throughout the 1930's. He ended his illustrating career as the primary artist on Gum Inc.'s Horrors of War and Lone Ranger series chewing gum cards 1938-1942.
His works are signed: E.J.P., EJP as a monogram in a circle, E.J. Prittie, Edwin J. Prittie, and Edwin John Prittie.