Heritage Auctions Illustration Art Catalogs

While color auction catalogs from any company are probably fun to thumb thru, Heritage has for some time settled in to having two, or more, specific auctions a year focused on just "Illustration Art" each of which has been presaged by a substantial catalog. Under that rubric of Illustration Art, they group together and display almost everything that this website is interested in. The randomness of the activity means that there isn't much thematic cohesion to the presentation, the art being mostly arranged in artist-alphabetical order, but the quality of the reproduction certainly makes up for that, as well as the supporting info (all auction items are captioned with artist, title, size, medium and usually where it first appeared). Many of the volumes don't have a purchase-link, as only a few of them are found on Amazon and I haven't yet found a good alternative marketplce for them. The supplements never score really well, but if you are keeping score, this is the presentation-ranked order of the base-catalogs, best to least so: 2010-Oct, 2004-Feb, 2009-Oct, 2009-Mar, 2019-April, 2003-July, 2020-Oct, 2018-Oct, 2003-Nov, 2014-Oct, 2011-Feb, 2012-March, 2004-Oct, 2010-Feb, 2013-Oct, 2008-June, 2011-Oct, 2009-July, 2011-May, 2010-Aug, 2010-May, 2008-Oct, 2013-April-A, 2020-Apr, 2013-April-B, 2021-April, 2011-Sept, 2012-Oct-A, 2013-July and 2011-Oct.

2021 April ( # 8030 ) A 129-page book, with 38 pages being large featured reproductions and 53 being two-or-more images gathered together (the secondary section of too-small images is 23 pages). This volume is heaviest in the area of cheesecake/pin-up/nudes, having 50-plus images, then both adventure/romance and standard-illustration each have about two-thirds of that, followed by SF/Fantasy & cartoon/juvenile, each with half as much as them. The 'well-presented' artists are: Charles Addams, John Alvin (3), Rolf Armstrong (2), Walter Baumhofer, Enoch Bolles (2), Chesley Bonestell (2), Charles Edward Chambers, Gil Elvgren (3)**, Virgil Finlay, John Held, J.C. Leyendeckerş, Don Maitz*, Earl Moran, Gary Norman, Norman Saunders (4)**, Ernest Howard Shepard, Owen Smith, Boris Vallejo (2)**, and Albert Vargas (5)***

* - Note that the 'well-presented' piece by Maitz can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces by Vallejo, Saunders and Elvgren cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding the 'well-presented' pieces here by Vargas, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Leyendecker is an ad for an upcoming auction.

2020 Oct ( # 8027 ) A 137-page book, with 69 pages being large featured reproductions and 41 being two-or-more images gathered together (the secondary section of too-small images is 18 pages). This volume is heavy in the area of cheesecake/pin-up/nudes, having 90-plus images, then adventure/romance has about a third of that, followed by SF/Fantasy & standard-illustration, with only the slightest smattering of western and cartoon/juvenile. The 'well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong (2), Joyce Ballantyne, Earle Bergey, Al Buell, Douglass Crockwell, Steve Dohanos, Gil Elvgren (8)***, Robert G. Harris, Greg Hildebrandt, Mort Künstler (4), Winsor McCay, Robert McGinnis*, Bill Medcalf (2), Stanley Meltzoff, Earl Moran (2), Patrick Nagel (8), Leroy Neiman, Frank R. Paul, George Petty (3)***, Arthur Rackham, Mel Ramosş, Charles Robinson, William Heath Robinson, Norman Rockwellş**, Dick Sargent, Norman Saunders (5)**, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, Haddon Sundblom*, Ed Valigursky, Alberto Vargas (9), and Harold VonSchmidt.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by McGinnis, and Sundblom, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Saunders and Rockwell cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Petty's, and Elvgren's, 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Ramos and Rockwell are actually the ads for upcoming auctions.

2020 Apr ( # 8000 ) A 118-page book, with 39 pages being large featured reproductions and 53 being two-or-more images gathered together (the secondary section of too-small images is 16 pages). This volume is heavy in the area of cheesecake/pin-up/nudes, having 70 images, then adventure/romance has nearly half of that, followed by SF/Fantasy & standard-illustration, then cartoon/juvenile, with only the slightest smattering of western . The 'well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong, Enoch Bolles, Margaret Brundage*, Pruett Alexander Carter, Lee Brown Coye (2), Olivia DeBerardinis (2), Peter Driben*, Gil Elvgren (6)ş***, Ed Emshwiller*, Virgil Finlay, Edwin Georgi, Johnny Gruelle, Mabel Rollins Harris, Robert G. Harris, Al Hirschfeld, Tom Lovell*, Harold McCauley, Robert McGinnis (2)**, Patrick Nagel (5), Ken Riley, Norman Rockwellş**, Norman Saunders**, Haddon Sundblom**, Alberto Vargas (2)**, and H.J. Ward**.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Brundage, Emshwiller, Driben, and Lovell can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List (though the Brundage & Emshwiller are much better here).

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by McGinnis, Rockwell, Saunders, Sundblom, Vargas, and Ward cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding the 'well-presented' pieces here by Elvgren, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Rockwell, and an Elvgren, are actually the ads for upcoming auctions.

2019 April ( # 5390 ) More than a third of this volume presents the "IRI Collection" (Investment Rarities Inc.). That & the regular auction here delivers 90 cheesecake/pin-up/nude images, with then a nice diversity of both adventure/romance and standard-illustration (60 each), as well as SF/fantasy trailing with 35 and a smattering of western & cartoon. 69 pages each sport a large or full-page reproduction, along with 85 more that gather together two or three images. There's only 19 pages of too-small images in the secondary session detail. The 'well-presented'artists here are: Rolfe Armstrong (3), Joyce Ballantyne, Walter Baumhofer, Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, Earle Bergey, Walter Biggs, Hannes Bok, Enoch Bolles, George Brehm, Al Buell, Charles Edward Chambers, Howard Chandler Christy, Harry Clarke, Lee Brown Coye, Charlie Dye, Harry Ekman, Gil Elvgren (4)***, Erte (Romain de Tirtoff), Virgil Finlay, Bernard Fuchs, Edwin Georgi, John Held Jr., Greg Hildebrandt (3)**, Walter Beach Humphrey, Jeffrey Catherine Jones**, Ken Kelly, William Henry Dethlef Koerner, Harold W. McCauley, Winsor McCay, Bill Medcalf, Al Moore, Patrick Nagel (5), Leroy Neiman, Harry Lemon Parkhurst, Robert Peak, Norman Rockwell*, Norman Saunders**, Jessie Willcox Smith, James Allen St. John (2)**, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, Bobby Toombs, Boris Vallejo**, Alberto Vargas (3), H.J. Ward (2)*, Albert Beck Wenzell and N.C. Wyeth.

* - Note that Ward, and Rockwell's 'well-presented' pieces here can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by, Jones, St. John, Hildebrandt and Vallejo, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2018 Oct ( # 5343 ) 122-page catalog that has 14 of them lost to the secondary session, with its thumbnail images, but 47 pages feature large reproductions of their exhibits. Another 52 pages gather together two-or-more healthy-size images. Genre-wise, cheesecake/pin-up/nude win the day with 60 images, twice as much as each of the two runners-up, SF/fantasy & standard-illustration, with adventure/romance pulling up a bit behind them. The 'well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong, John Berkey, Harry Clarke, Olivia DeBerardinis, Billy DeVorss, Peter Driben (2)**, Gil Elvgren (2)***, Virgil Finlay, Theodor Seuss Geisel (2), Greg Hildebrandt**, Al Hirschfeld, Robert McGinnis**, Ralph McQuarrie, Patrick Nagel (3), Frank R. Paul, George Petty**, Norman Rockwell (2) ***, Dick Sargent, Norman Saunders (2) **, Hajime Sorayama, Haddon Sundblom**, Alberto Vargas (12), H.J. Ward, and UNKNOWN ARTIST.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Ward, Petty, McGinnis, Saunders, Sundblom, Hildebrandt, and Driben, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Rockwell & Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2014 Oct ( # 5185 ) Though this is another catalog with roughly 200 pages, the "Starlog Collection" makes this catalog much more S.F./fantasy heavy than most. With nearly 100 images, that genre would be the top-scorer, but cheesecake/pin-up/nudes still edges it out with 10% more. Adventure/romance comes in third with 72 images and the rest trail far behind. The secondary session section, where the many images there have to be considered too small, runs 26 pages in this book. In all, there are 102 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 52 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Allen Anderson*, Rolf Armstrong (2), James Avati*, Chesley Bonestell, Margaret Brundage*, Rafael DeSoto*, Gil Elvgren (7)***, Al Hirschfeld, J.C. Leyendecker, Ray Lichtenstein, Bill Mauldin, Robert McCall (2), Stanley Meltzoff, Earl Moran (3), Patrick Nagel (6), Harry Parkhurst, Frank R. Paul, George Petty (3)***, Robert Stanley, Jack Thurston, Alberto Vargas (4), H.J. Ward (3)**, Michael Whelan*, Garth Williams, and UNKNOWN (2).

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Anderson, Avati, Brundage, DeSoto, and Whelan, can all additionally be found so in their own collections further up on The List (though her's is better here).

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Ward, cannot additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Petty's, Elvgren's, 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2013 Oct ( # 5145 ) This particular catalog appears to have been released with two different covers. This is bit smaller than usual, only 120 pages and there is no regular second session detailed. One large collection being auctioned off really puffed up standard/advertising illustration to twice the image-total than those of each cheesecake/pin-up/nudes, sci-fi/fantasy and adventure/romance. There's also a Garth Williams section that provides most of the trailing cartoon-ish genre. You'll find here 49 full-page reproductions and another 54 pages with multiple images. There are two double-page-spreads, but only one of them makes acceptable accommodation for the book's gutter. The artists being 'well-presented' here are: Victor C. Anderson, Rolf Armstrong, Vaughan Bass, Howard V. Brown, Dean Cornwell, Jennes Cortez (2), Steven Dohanos (4), Gil Elvgren (5)***, Kelly Freas**, Laurence Herndon, William Henry Dethlef Koerner, J.C. Leyendecker (2), Bill Medcalf, Earl Moran, George Petty**, Cole Phillips, Howard Pyle, Norman Rockwell (3)**, Frank Schoonover (2), Amos Sewell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Alberto Vargas (6), Garth Williams, and N.C. Wyeth.

** - Note that Petty, Freas, and Rockwell's 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally be found so in their collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2013 Oct (supplement) ( # 5145-B ) The Frank Collection A special catalog, additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction. This appears to have been the last of the well-distributed Frank Collection auction events. The catalog has 74 pages with 17 of those featuring large reproductions of some single piece. There's another 35 pages that gather together two or more images together - again it is striking how many of these smaller images didn't appear at all in the two Paper Tiger published Frank Collection books. There is one double-page-spread which negotiates the gutter just fine (probably because it seems to have been designed to be a wrap-around book cover). Regarding the 'well-presented' pieces, I'd say roughly half of them here did not get displayed that way (if at all) in the two major books. Listing all the artists getting that great presentation here: Allen Anderson*, Virgil Finlay, H.R. Giger, Jeffrey Catherine Jones**, Frank R. Paul (3), Richard Powers*, Alex Schomburg**, Ed Valigursky, Boris Vallejo*, Michael Whelan (2)*, and UNKNOWN. (Note - because this particular publication focuses on the Frank Collection, it gets a duplicate entry on that page of The List.)

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Anderson, Powers, Whelan, and Vallejo, can all additionally be found so in their collections on The List.

** - Note that the well-presented' pieces here by Jones, and Schomburg, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2013 July ( # 5140) 127-page catalog that has 19 of them lost to the secondary session, with its thumbnail images, but 32 pages feature large reproductions of their exhibits. Another 55 pages gather together two-or-more healthy-size images (includes a a special six-page section gathering the Garth Williams holdings). Surpisingly there's double-page exhibit here that does not negotiate the center-gutter all that well. Genre-wise, cheesecake/pin-up/nude win the day with 75 images, twice as much as each of the two runners-up, SF/fantasy & adventure/romance, with cartoon/juvenile & standard-illustration pulling up a bit behind them. The 'well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong, John Berkey, Douglas Crockwell, Olivia DeBerardinis, Gil Elvgren (4)*, Harrison Fisher, Pearl Frush, Greg Hildebrandt**, Bill Medcalf (2), Earl Moran, Patrick Nagel, Frank R. Paul, Howard Pile, Robert Riggs, Norman Rockwell**, Guy Roseş, Norman Saunders**, Alberto Vargas (4)***, and Wesso

* - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Elvgren can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Hildebrandt, Rockwell, and Saunders, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding the 'well-presented' pieces here by Vargas, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Rose is an ad for an upcoming auction.

2013 April (Pin-up & Pulp Art) ( # 5126-A ) So, this volume is *half* of this particular auction, focusing only on "Pin-Up & Pulp Art" for 122 pages. Cheesecake/pin-up/nude images dominate with 110 such, then SF/Fantasy (60) and adventure (40). The secondary session section, where the many images have to be considered too small, runs 15 pages in this book. In all, there are 55 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 37 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists are: Rolf Armstrong, Earle Bergey, Enoch Bolles (3), William Bouguereau, Margaret Brundage (3)*, E. Irving Couse, Olivia DeBerardinis, Peter Driben*, Gil Elvgren (6)***, Earl Moran, Patrick Nagel, Frank R. Paul, George Petty (3)***, Edward Runci, Norman Saunders (2)**, Alberto Vargas (2), H.J. Ward**, and UNKNOWN.

* - Note that all of the 'well-presented' pieces here by Driben, and Brundage, can additionally be found so in their own collections further up on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Ward, an dSaunders, cannot be additionally found so in their own collections further up on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Petty's, and Elvgren's, 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2013 April (Golden Age & Classic Art) ( # 5126-B ) This is the second half of this auction, focusing only on "Golden Age & Classic Art" for 119 pages. Standard Illustration images dominate with about 80 such and then there's also a Garth Williams section that provides most of the book's 40 cartoon/juvenile images - pulling third are the 30 adventure images. The secondary session section, where the many images have to be considered too small, runs 27 pages here. In all, there are 45 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 28 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists are: Stanley Arthurs, John Berkey, Walter Biggs, Dean Cornwell, E. Irving Couse, Harvey Dunn, W. Herbert Dunton, John Falter, Walter Beach Humphrey, J.C. Leyendecker, Frank McCarthy (2)**, Henry Raleigh, Norman Rockwell**, Jessie Willcox Smith (2), Howard A. Terpning, Thorton Utz, Edmund F. Ward, Garth Williams, and N.C. Wyeth.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by McCarthy, and Rockwell's (his ad preliminary) cannot be additionally found so in their own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Hennings is an ad for an upcoming auction.

2012 October (Golden Age & Classic Art) ( # 5111-A ) This is the first half of this auction, focusing only on "Golden Age & Classic Art" for 113 pages. 'Standard-illustration' images dominate with about 70 such, followed by 45 more of the adventurous variety, and then there's also a small Garth Williams section that provides most of the book's 30 cartoon/juvenile images - pulling fourth are the 20 sci-fi/fantasy images with then a handful of western. The secondary session section, where the many images have to be considered too small, runs 18 pages here. In all, there are 52 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 28 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists are: Dean Cornwell*, Edmund Dulac*, John Falter (2), E. Martin Henningsş, George Hughes, Morgan Kane, J.C. Leyendecker (3), Violet Oakley, Maxfield Parrish, Cole Phillips, Willy Pogany, Howard Pyle (2), Norman Rockwell (6)**, Jessie Willcox Smith (2), Garth Williams, and N.C. Wyeth.

* - Note that all of the 'well-presented' pieces here by Cornwell, and Dulac, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Rockwell (5 preliminaries & a portrait) cannot be additionally found so in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Hennings is an ad for an upcoming auction.

2012 March ( # 5090 ) This catalog has 200 pages, of which 44 are dedicated to a single large reproduction of a work. Included here are six images which are enlarged extracts from pieces - two of those are double-page spreads (but one of those is disappointing). 100 other pages present four, or less, bright and colorful images. (Among all those images are around 60 adventure illustrations, 30 SF/Fantasy ones and 90 pin-ups). Another 30 or so pages are used to display quite a few more works, but all of the images there are so small, they really can't be said to be art pages. The 'well-presented' pieces are by Charles Addams (2), Enoch Bolles (2), Margaret Brundage (2)*, Dean Cornwell (2), Olivia DeBerardinis (4), Edmund Dulac**, Harvey Thomas Dunn, Gil Elvgren (8)***, Robert Charles Howe, Frank Xavier Leyendecker, J. C. Leyendecker (2), Tom Lovell*, George Petty**, Norman Rockwell (2)**, Amos Sewell, Paul Stahr, William M. Timlin, Alberto Vargas, H.J. Ward**, and Garth Williams (2).

* - Note that all of the 'well-presented' pieces here by Brundage, and Lovell can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Dulac, Petty, Ward, and Rockwell(portraits) cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that only one of Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces cannot additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2011 Oct ( # 5066 ) Another catalog with roughly 200 pages. The secondary session section, in back, where the many images have to be considered too small, runs 31 pages. There's another section (19 pages) of just Garth Williams illustrations, that has a bit of that same problem, but it does have most of the book's 70 healthy cartoonish images. Cheesecake-pin-up-nudes claims the top spot with 150 images and standard/ad-illustration run a far second with about half as many. Adventure images have again about half as much and then western & SF/Fantasy pull up the rear. In all, there are 121 regular art pages with multiple images gathered together and 38 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists are: Carl Barks, Enoch Bolles, Reynold Brown*, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell (2), Olivia DeBerardinis (2), Rafael DeSoto*, Gil Elvgren (7)***, Edwin Georgi, Steve Hanks, Francis Xavier Leyendecker, J.C. Leyendecker, George Petty**, Norman Rockwell**, Amos Sewell (2), Jessie Willcox Smith, Alberto Vargas (3), H.J. Ward (2)*, Garth Williams (3), and Robert Williams.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Ward, Brown, and DeSoto, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Petty, and Rockwell's (a color preliminary painting), cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2011 Oct (supplement) ( # 5066-B ) The Comic Art Of Playboy A special catalog, smaller (8.5-by-8.5 inches), additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction. It has 64 pages with 6 of those featuring large reproductions of some single piece. There's another 41 pages that gather two cartoon-images together. Other than the two-page introduction, the other pages are lost to displays of sequential art or the auction-house necessities. The few 'well-presented' artists are: Will Elder, Harvey Kurtzman, Shel Silverstein, Erich Sokol, and Alberto Vargas (3).

The Jerry Weist Collection ( 2011 Sept - # 6069 ) While this 228-page book seems to belong here, it was actually a special auction catalog, rather than part of the regular 'Illustration Art' auctions taking place every year. Jerry Weist was a Fantasy & Science Fiction collector, fan & genre-historian of some renown and after his death many of his items got pictured and went up for sale here. A largish catalog that is mostly his books, pulp magazines (and movie-memorabilia), but a slim majority of the pages count as art-dominated because all the covers to such items are paintings & drawings. The adequate-size images compete for space with those that are less so, but just enough are present to barely win the day. The 18 large reproductions are mostly from his original art holdings, as are 27 more multiple-image pages, but then count on another 68 pages that are like thumbing through an incredible profusely-illustrated SF/Fantasy book catalog. That does unfortunately leave the other half of the book where the physical items are the star rather than any art possibly associated with them. Ultimately, I feel most people would feel considering this an art-book stretches that criteria a bit too far and could take it or leave it. Those artists getting the featured large reproductions are: Howard V. Brown, Al Feldstein, Virgil Finlay, Frank Frazetta*, Laurence Herndon, Tom Lovell*, P.J. Monahan, Leo Morey, Frank R. Paul, Clinton Pettee, John Schoenherr, J. Allen St. John**, Ed Valigursky, H.J. Ward*, Wesso, and Wally Wood.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Frazetta, Lovell, and Ward, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that St. John's 'well-presented' piece here cannot additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

2011 May ( # 5059 ) Another catalog with roughly 200 pages. The secondary session section, where the many images have to be considered too small, runs 27 pages. There's another section, of just Garth Williams illustrations, that doesn't have that same problem, but it does have most of the book's 100 cartoonish images. For that matter, there is just as many images as that categorized as cheesecake-pin-up-nudes and then standard/ad-illustration has the same amount plus half-again-as-many (the other genres are represented, but count-wise are left far back in the dust). The back-cover page is a bi-fold with large art on both sides. In all, there are 133 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 38 more that each feature a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists are: Enoch Bolles, Stanley Borack, Howard Chandler Christy, Emery Clarke, Dean Cornwell (2), Harvey T. Dunn, Gil Elvgren (5)*, Thomas Fogarty, Elbert McGran Jackson, J.C. Leyendecker (4), Tom Lovell*, Frank R. Paul, George Petty (2)***, Arthur Rackham, Alberto Vargas (5), H.J. Ward (2)**, Garth Williams (2), and N.C. Wyeth.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Elvgren, and Lovell, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that Ward's 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Petty's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

2011 Feb ( # 5052 ) A 236-page catalog. 41 pages are set aside for sections on both Animation Art and artist Garth Williams - within those are almost all of the 80 caricature/cartoon-ish images here are found. That count is far outstripped by the cheesecake/pin-up/nudes genre (180), but followed closely by standard-illustration (70) and those of stirring-adventure (50). So, while there is one disappointing double-page-spread, 131 art-pages gather together multiple images and another 51 feature notable large reproductions. Those artists getting that featured treatment are: Earle Bergey, Dean Cornwell (3), Douglass Crockwell, Peter Driben*, Harvey Dunn, Eyvind Earle (2), Gil Elvgren (9)***, Mabel Rollins Harris, Harold McCauley, Robert McGinnis, William Medcalf, Earl Moran (2), Maxfield Parrish (3), Frank R. Paul, George Petty**, Samsom Pollen, Norman Rockwell**, George Rozen, Norman Saunders (2)**, Jim Schaeffing, Haddon Sundblom*, Gustaf Tenggren, Alberto Vargas (7), H.J. Ward (2)*, Garth Williams (3), and UNKNOWN.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Sundblom, Ward, and Driben, can additionally be found so in their own collection on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here of Rockwell (a portrait rough), Petty and Saunders cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found 'well-presented' in his own collections on The List.

2010 Oct ( # 5038 ) So far, this catalog scores as the best presentation yet of the many varied works. 192 pages in all, with an 18-page secondary auction session where the images have to be judged too small, but then 78 pages have two-to-four images gathered together and 73 more that each feature a large reproduction - which accounts for this volume's high score. (There's one double-page-spread and it fails). Among the art pages is 17-page section focusing on the work of Garth Williams, but it holds barely half of this book's 90 caricature/cartoonish images and they are then trailed by the other counted genres, standard-illustration (70), adventure (50), cheesecake/pin-up/nudes (30), SF/fantasy (20) and western (10). The 'well-presented' artists are: James Avati**, McClelland Barclay (2), Ludwig Bemelmans (2), Margaret Brundage*, Walter Harrison Cady, Howard Chandler Christy (3), Harry Clarke, Dean Cornwell (4), Edmund Dulac (3)**, Harvey Dunn (2), Gil Elvgren (6)***, James Montgomery Flagg, John Held Jr., Al Hirschfeld (9), William Henry Dethlef Koerner, Joseph Christian Leyendecker (4), Maxfield Parrish (3), George Petty (3)**, Howard Pyle, Arthur Rackham (2), Norman Rockwell (2)**, Arthur Sarnoff, Mead Schaeffer*, Frank Schoonover (3), Amos Sewell, Jesse Willcox Smith (2), James Allen St. John**, Frank Stick, William Mitcheson Timlin, Thornton Utz, Alberto Vargas (2), Garth Williams (2), and UNKNOWN.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Brundage, and Schaeffer, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Petty, Avati, Dulac and St. John, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding the 'well-presented' pieces here by Elvgren, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2010 Aug ( # 5054 ) One of the larger volumes at 226 pages. Cheesecake/pin-up/nude images dominate with about 120 such, followed by standard-illustration (90), adventure (60), with SF/fantasy (50) pulling a stronger-than-usual fourth place. Also, there is a special 31-page Rock-&-Roll Art section before the unsatisfying secondary-session section with its 27 pages of too-small images. In all, there are 135 healthy art pages with multiple images gathered together and 35 more that are dominated by a full-page reproduction. The 'well-presented' artists featured here are: Hannes Bok, Margaret Brundage*, Dean Cornwell, Gil Elvgren (5)***, Robert Fuqua, Rick Griffin (6), Earl Moran, Stanley Mouse (3), Frank R. Paul (2), Norman Rockwell**, Alexander Sharpe Ross, George Rozen, Norman Saunders**, Boris Vallejo*, Alberto Vargas (4), and H.J. Ward (2)*.

* - Note that Ward's, Brundage's, & Vallejo's 'well-presented' pieces here can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that Saunders' & Rockwell's 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2010 May ( # 7015 ) This auction had two supplemental sessions each with their own catalog, leaving this base one quite girl heavy. Its catalog has only a handful of SF/Fantasy images, about 80 adventure/standard-illustration ones and then twice that of nudes-pin-ups-&-cheescake. 47 of all the pages these images are scattered about on feature a large reproduction of a single piece. There's one double-page-spread to introduce the auction and it negotiates the gutter just fine. After the main section of the book, there's still another 14 pages of possibilities, but most would consider the images too small. The artists 'well presented' here are: Rolf Armstrong (4), Enoch Bolles (3), Hilo Chen, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell (2), Gil Elvgren (7)*, George Hughes, J.C. Leyendecker (4), Tom Lovell*, Robert McGinnis (2)***, Earl Moran (2), Maxfield Parrish (3), George Petty*, Coles Phillips, Norman Rockwell**, Alberto Vargas (10), H.J. Ward*, and Ted Withers.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Elvgren, Lovell, Ward, and Petty, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' peice here by Rockwell (a portrait) cannot additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regard to the 'well-presented' pieces here by McGinnis, one, but not both, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2010 May (supplement) ( # 7015-B ) The Frank Collection A special catalog, additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction. It has 64 pages with 14 of those featuring large reproductions of some single piece. There's another 37 pages that gather two or more images together - even though those images are smaller, it is striking how many of them don't appear at all in the two Paper Tiger published Frank Collection books. There is one double-page spread which negotiates the gutter just fine (probably because it seems to have been designed to be a wrap-around book cover). Regarding the 'well-presented' pieces, almost all were also displayed just as well in the two major books, but there are a few exceptions to that. Listing all the artists getting that great presentation here: John Berkey, Chesley Bonestell (2), Howard V. Brown, James Christensen, Virgil Finlay, Frank Frazetta*, Chris Moore*, Leo Moray, Richard Powers**, and J. Allen St. John (2)*. (Note - because this particular publication focuses on the Frank Collection, it gets a duplicate entry on that page of The List.)

* - Note that Moore's, Frazetta's and J. Allen St. John's 'well-presented' pieces here can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Powers cannot additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2010 May (supplement) ( # 7015-C ) The Mort Künstler Collection [-BELOW THE LINE-] A special catalog, additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction, but it's extremely short, with only only 22 art-pages. Three works get a full page treatment, as well as one detail extract. The rest of the pages are two to four images each. Almost all of them are examples of the artist's exciting adventure illustrations, which I don't believe have had a book compilation yet. All reproductions are of the original paintings. (Note - because this particular publication focuses on a single artist, it gets its own separate duplicate entry elsewhere on The List.)

2010 Feb ( # 5034 ) A 230-page book, with 50 pages being large featured reproductions and 130 being two-or-more images gathered together (the secondary section of too-small images is 25 pages). It begins with the Red Cross collection, with paintings for that organization's posters and other promotional materials, all of which helps push the standard-illustration examples here healthily over a 100, but that still makes it second to pin-up/glamour/cheesecake/nudes with its 150+. Adventure/romance follows them with just under a 100 and all of sci-fi/fantasy, western, & cartoon pull up a very distant rear. Those large 'well-presented' works are from: John White Alexander, Rolf Armstrong (4), Enoch Bolles (2), Sam Cherry, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell (3)*, Harvey Dunn, W. Herbert Dunton, Gil Elvgren (7)***, James Montgomery Flagg, J.C. Leyendecker (4), Tom Lovell*, Walter Martin, Earl Moran (2), Patrick Nagel, Rudy Nappi, Leroy Neiman, George Petty (2)**, Norman Rockwell (2)**, Frank Schoonover (2), Amos Sewell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Haddon Sundblom*, Gustaf Tenggren, Thornton Utz, Alberto Vargas (4), and H.J. Ward (2)*.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Cornwell, Lovell, Sundblom and Ward, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Petty, and Rockwell(his being ad-illo & portrait), cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that regarding Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2009 Oct ( # 7016 ) One of the more effective collections here, presentation-wise. It has 64 pages that each feature a large reproduction and 96 that gather together multiple images. The secondary section, with its too small images, is only 19 pages here. Content-wise, standard-&-ad-illustration (120) capture most of the images, followed closely by cheesecake-pin-up-nudes (100), with SF/Fantasy and Adventure (30 each) pulling almost all of the rest. The 'well-presented' artists here are: McClelland Barclay, Walter M. Baumhofer, Enoch Bolles (3), Howard Chandler Christy, John Clymer, Dean Cornwell, Peter Driben, Harvey T. Dunn (2), Eyvind Earle, Gil Elvgren (7)***, James Montgomery Flagg (2), Art Frahm, George Hughes, Joe Kubertş, Mort Künstler, J.C. Leyendecker (3), Tom Lovell (2)*, Robert McGinnis**, Earl Moran (2), George Petty (2)**, Arthur Rackham (2), Robert Robinson, Norman Rockwell (4)**, George Rozen, Norman Saunders**, Mead Schaeffer*, Maurice Sendak, Amos Sewell (2), Jesse Willcox Smith, Haddon Sundblom*, Darrell K. Sweet**, Gustaf Tenggren (2), Alberto Vargas (6), and H.J. Ward*.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Lovell, Schaeffer, Sundblom, and Ward, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that Petty, Saunders, Sweet, and McGinnis's 'well-presented' pieces here, nor Rockwell's (3 movie-poster head-portraits & an ad drawing), are not yet to be found so in their own collections on The List. (Sweet's is a preliminary for a work that is).

*** - Note that one of Elvgren's pieces here cannot additionally be found 'well-presented' in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that Kubert's piece here is the cover for another catalog presented as an ad.

2009 July ( # 7010 ) Feels like a good presentation, with the lion's share of imagery being from the massive Charles Martignette illustration-art collection (it took six years to sell the deceased's entire holdings). Out of its 180 pages, it has 42 pages that each feature a large reproduction and 105 that gather together multiple images. The secondary section, with its too small images, is only 11 pages here. Content-wise, adventure-&-romance (112) capture most of the images, followed pretty closely by cheesecake-pin-up-nudes (97), with standard-&-ad-illustration (75) pulling a respectable third place. SF/fantasy (35), cartoon (14), and western (11), pulling in the meager leavings. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Enoch Bolles (3), Charles Edward Chambers, Howard Chandler Christy (2), Emery Clarke, John Clymer, Dean Cornwell (4), Harvey Dunn, Gil Elvgren (6)***, James Montgomery Flagg, Mort Künstler (2), J.C. Leyendecker (2), Tom Lovell*, Leroy Neiman, Maxfield Parrish, Howard Pyle, Mel Ramosş, Norman Rockwell (2)**, George Rodrigue, George Rozen, Amos Sewell, Charles Gates Sheldon, and Alberto Vargas (3).

* - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Lovell can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

** - Note that Rockwell's 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally to be found so in his own collections on The List. (One (also used as the cover) is a preliminary for a work that is).

*** - Note that one of Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

ş - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Ramos is an ad for an upcoming auction.

2009 March ( # 7005 ) 204-page catalog that has 10 of them lost to the secondary session, with its thumbnail images, but 59 pages feature large reproductions of their exhibits. Content-wise, adventure-&-romance (95) captures most of the images, followed by a triumvarite of SF/fantasy, cheesecake/pin-up/nudes & standard- &-ad-illustration (75 each). There are certainly more scattered cartoon-&-juvenile (50) than you usually find. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Rolf Armstrong (2), John Coleman Burroughs, Pruett Carter, Boris Chaliapin, John Clymer, Robert Crofut, Peter Driben (3)*, Edmund Dulac*, Gil Elvgren (5)*, William Russell Flint, Frank Frazetta**, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Graves Gladney, Al Hirschfeld, Brad Holland, Clark Hulings, Mort Künstler (2), Robert Maguire*, Earl Moran, Patrick Nagel, Leroy Neiman (2), Maxfield Parrish (2), Frank R. Paul, Georges Rochegrosse, George Rodrigue, Cosmo Rowe, Norman Saunders (2)**, Maurice Sendak, Jessie Willcox Smith (2), Gennady Spirim, J. Allen St. John (3), Haddon Sundblom*, Gustaf Tenggren (2), Alberto Vargas (3), and Kit Williams.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Maguire, Elvgren, Dulac, Sundblom, and Driben, can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Frazetta, and Saunders, 'well-presented' pieces here are not additionally found so in their own collections on The List.

The Estate Of Charles Martignette 2009 Feb(-ish) While I haven't had this publication in my hands yet, it has been described to me - a booklet of 18 pages, all apparently multiple-image gatherings, showing examples from many of the renowned artists that were appearing in the storied collection of the late Charles Martignette. It feels like that this was a promotional preview pamphlet letting all interested parties know that the collection's items were to be auctioned-off in the months & years to come. (I've heard the entire collection was sold over the span of six years, all for almost 21 million dollars). I imagine all the images here were then seen again in the catalogs that accompanied the actual auctions the items appeared in.

2008 Oct ( # 7001-A ) A 140-page volume (includes an 11-page Playboy Illustration Archive section) with 123 pages dominated by the art, 22 of those featuring a large reproduction. Count-wise, cheesecake/pin-up/nudes heavily leads the pack with adventure/drama/romance, then standard/advertising & sci-fi/fantasy all trailing, though still significant. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Frederick Brunner, Harvey Dunn, Gil Elvgren (6)***, John Falter (3), John LaGatta, J.C. Leyendecker (2), Patrick Nagel, Leroy Nieman, George Rozen, Haddon Sundblom*, Alberto Vargas (3), and Gahan Wilson.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Sundblom can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2008 Oct (supplement) ( # 7001-B ) The Frank Collection A special catalog, additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction. This seems to have been the first 'salvo' in dispensing with the Frank Collection. Certainly don't purchase it for the 'well-presented' art, as there's only six instances of that, and almost all of them appeared as 'well-presented' in the Paper Tiger books. There's then about 50 pages with two or more images on display - though smaller, it's striking how many of them hadn't made a previous appearance in the two major books. Now, the remainder, the larger portion of the book, is working to sell the huge book collection of the Franks's. Half of these pages sport a small reproduction or two of a book-or-pulp-cover, but it hardly seems worth it. Anyway, the few 'well-presented' artists here are: Allen Anderson*, John Berkey, Chesley Bonestell, Margaret Brundage*, Norman Saunders*, and Michael Whelan*. (Note - as this entry focuses entirely on the Frank Collection, it gets a duplicate entry on that page on The List.)

* - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Anderson, Saunders, Whelan, and Brundage, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2008 Oct (supplement) ( # 7001-C ) The Mort Künstler Collection [-BELOW THE LINE-] A special catalog, additional to and meant to accompany the main one for this period's Illustration Art auction, but it's extremely short, with only 26 art-pages. Three works get a full page treatment, as well as one detail extract. The rest of the pages are two to four images each. Almost all of them are examples of the artist's exciting adventure illustrations, which I don't believe have had a book compilation yet. All reproductions are of the original paintings. (Note - because this particular publication focuses on a single artist, it gets its own separate duplicate entry elsewhere on The List.)

2008 June ( # 7000 ) Unusual mix this time around, with cartoons/caricature taking the lead, with a 100 images (helped by 11 pages of the work of Al Hirschfeld), followed closely by adventure/romance and then SF/fantasy, with standard-illustration pulling up the rear, but with cheesecake/pin-up/nude even farther behind. Out of 156 pages, 30 feature full-page reproductions and another 111 pull together two-or-more. The secondary session of thumbnail images had still not become a feature yet. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Charles Addams, Rolf Armstrong (2), Rudolph Belarski, Reynold Brown (3)*, Dean Cornwell, Gil Elvgren (4)***, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Philip R. Goodwin, Greg Hildebrandt*, Tim Hildebrandt*, John LaGatta, Earl Moran, Leroy Neiman, Maxfield Parrish, Norman Rockwell (2)**, Norman Saunders**, Mead Schaeffer**, Frank E. Schoonover, John Club Scott, Amos Sewell, Saul Steinberg, Jack Thurston, and N.C. Wyeth.

* - Note that Brown's and the Hildebrandt's 'well-presented' pieces here can additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Schaeffer, Rockwell, and Saunders, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can also be found so in his own collections on The List.

2004 Oct ( # 604 ) The standard-illustration genre here is the hands-down winner with 140 images, well more than twice than that of the next one, adventure/romance, with cheesecake/pin-up/nudes half-again that. This catalog has 121 pages with 80 displaying multiple images and 28 featuring large, nearly full-page-ish, reproductions. Those 'well-presented' artists are: Harold N. Anderson, Dean Cornwell (2), Bradshaw Crandell, Gil Elvgren (4)***, John Falter, Harrison Fisher, Bernie Fuchs, H.R. Hammon, Frank Hoffman, Frank Holt, J.C. Leyendecker (3), Zoë Mozert, Russell Patterson, Frank R. Paul, Gene Pressler, Norman Price, Alex Raymond, George Rozen, Everett Shinn, Alberto Vargas, Fritz Willis, and Mortimer Wilson Jr.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2004 Feb ( # 809-A ) (was entitled "FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS" at the time) A high-scoring art presentation - 158 pages with 148 of them being dominated by the art and 43 of those each featuring a large-reproduction. While at this time, the auction-house had not yet started the secondary session listing with the pages & pages of too-small images, they were still inserting into to each listing some image of the final printed product, if existent, which does keep those presentations from being completely clean & clear. In this book, adventure/exotic images reflect the largest share of them, followed closely by standard-&-ad illustration and then cheesecake/pin-up/nudes. After all those, there's just a smattering of SF/fantasy, cartoonish and western images. The group-title notwithstanding, I can't say some Europeans didn't sneak into the gathering too. The 'well-presented' artists found here are: Lyman Anderson, Rolf Armstrong (2), Enoch Bolles, Cole Bradley, George Brehm, Elmor J. Brown, Margaret Brundage**, Dean Cornwell (2), Bradshaw Crandell, Harvey Dunn, Edward M. Eggleston, Gil Elvgren*, Edwin Georgi, Charles Hargens, Edwin Henry, Cardwell S. Higgins, F. Foster Lincoln, Locher, Louis Lupes (2), Earl Moran (3), Zoë Mozert, K.O. Munson, Maxfield Parrish, Laurette Patten, George Petty (2)**, Jerome Rozen, Martha Sawyers, Charles Gates Sheldon (2), H.J. Soulen, Herbert Morton Stoops, Paul Strayer, Haddon Sundblom**, Saul Tepper, Alberto Vargas, George Hand Wright, and E. Yorkdale.

* - Note that the 'well-presented' piece here by Elvgren, and Sundblom, can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

** - Note that Petty's, and Brundage's, 'well-presented' pieces here cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

2003 Nov ( # 809-A ) (was entitled "FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS" at the time) A 190-page volume with 177 dominated with the art, 39 featuring a large reproduction. A good bit of 'cluttering' to be found here what with additional images of the printed result of the art laid beside, or in some cases, inserted a bit into, the painting or drawing. Count-wise, work intended for standard/advertising illustration just edges out those for adventure/drama/romance, with cheesecake/pin-up/nudes trailing a bit (all well over 100). Western images make a respectable showing of almost 50. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Enoch Bolles, Pruitt Carter, Sam Cherry, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell (3), Bradshaw Crandell, Douglass Crockwell, Rafael DeSoto**, Maynard Dixon, Harvey Dunn (2), Gil Elvgren (3)***, James Montgomery Flagg (2), Charles Dana Gibson, Adelaide Hiebel, Hy Hintermeister (Henry) (2), Walter Beach Humphrey, Henry Hutt, J.C. Leyendecker, Tom Lovell**, Walter Launt Palmer, Irene Patten (2), George Petty*, Norman Rockwell**, Frank Schoonover, Maurice Sendak (2), William Fulton Soare, Roy Frederick Spreter, Alberto Vargas (2), and Frederick Coffay Yohn.

* - Note that Petty's 'well-presented' piece here can additionally be found so in his own collection on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by DeSoto, Lovell, and Rockwell (a drawing preliminary), cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

2003 July ( # 807-C ) (was entitled "FAMOUS AMERICAN ILLUSTRATORS" at the time) A 195-page volume with 179 pages dominated with the art, 40 of those featuring a large reproduction. A good bit of 'cluttering' to be found here, what with additional images of the printed result of the art laid beside, or in some cases, inserted a bit into, the painting or drawing. Count-wise, cheesecake/pin-up/nudes lead the pack with both work intended for standard/advertising illustration and then adventure/drama/romance trailing only a bit behind (all well over 100). Sci-fi/fantasy images make a somewhat respectable showing of 40. The 'well-presented' artists here are: Rolf Armstrong, Howard Chandler Christy, Dean Cornwell (2), Rafael DeSoto*, Peter Driben*, Harvey Dunn, Gil Elvgren (5)***, James Montgomery Flagg (2), Robert C. Kauffmann, J.C. Leyendecker, Earl Moran, Thomas Moran, Mayo Olmstead, Harry Parkhurst, Laurette Patten, George Petty (2)**, Gene Pressler, Norman Rockwell**, George Rozen, Edward Runci, Paul Stahr, Herbert Morton Stoops, Haddon Sundblom**, Taber, Ed Valigursky (3), and Alberto Vargas (6).

* - Note that DeSoto, and Driben, can all additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

** - Note that the 'well-presented' pieces here by Petty, Sundblom, and Rockwell, cannot additionally be found so in their own collections on The List.

*** - Note that in regards to Elvgren's 'well-presented' pieces here, some, but not all, can additionally be found so in his own collections on The List.

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