CHARLES SHELDON

 

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CHARLES SHELDON

53 x 39 cm (21 x 15 ½ inches) pencil and ink on board signed lower right (overall board size is 28 ¼ x 22 ¼ inches).

 

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889 - 1960) studied at the Art Students League in New York, under Alphonse Mucha in Paris, and then set up his own studio at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Sheldon painted a large number of portraits of female beauties on magazine covers (Screenland, Woman's Home Companion, Collier's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Photoplay...), adverts and other illustrations like high fashion portraits for Woman's Home Companion and Theater magazine.

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