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x	Lot 63	Clinton Pettee								x
x		Fashionable couple in open roadster.								x
x		Magazine cover, Motor Age magazine, August 28, 1913; Gouache, 20 x 15.5", signed lr								x
x		Estimate: $9,000 - 12,000								x
x		Clinton Pettee's original paintings are vrtually unknown on the market, but he has the important distinction of being the first artist to depict Tarzan — in All-Story magazine, October 1912 — which ignited the pulp genre of magazines on account of its enormous popularity. Pettee was no "one-hit wonder" however, being skilled and imaginative, as this magazine cover attests; he illustrated numerous books in the 1910s as well as Scientific American and pulp magazines. The artist painted in a date of August 7, 1913; this was changed in the plate for publication. Motor Age still exists, making it one of the longer running magazines in history. It is not a British magazine despite the right-hand drive shown in the painting.								x
x		Condition - Good overall: board toned with age; short tears at edge outside image; matted archivally, and framed.								x
x		Clinton Pettee's original paintings are vrtually unknown on the market, but he has the important distinction of being the first artist to depict Tarzan — in All-Story magazine, October 1912 — which ignited the pulp genre of magazines on account of its enormous popularity. Pettee was no "one-hit wonder" however, being skilled and imaginative, as this magazine cover attests; he illustrated numerous books in the 1910s as well as Scientific American and pulp magazines.								x
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