"Illustration for 1988 Ebel US Tennis Pro Indoor" Lot no. 2989
By Robert Charles Howe (1954 - 2002)
1987 (Estimated)
20.50" x 15.50"
Oil on Panel
titled, dated, signed verso "1987 Robert Howe"
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"Illustration for 1988 Ebel US Pro Indoor", oil on panel, titled, dated, signed verso "1987 Robert Howe", together with poster. 20 1/2" high, 15 1/2" wide.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
In 1972, when the Saturday Evening Post organization held a contest for the replacement of their illustrator, Norman Rockwell, Robert Charles Howe, then age 18, won the contest. Of the work he submitted, Rockwell said it was: "better than I was at 18”
Howe also became an illustrator in 1984 of children's books for the publishing house of E.P. Dutton.