Nell Brinkley Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Nell Brinkley Art Value Price Guide

Jun. 11, 2023
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $900 - $1,150
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Mar. 12, 2023
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $950 - $1,200
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
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Dec. 18, 2022
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,000 - $1,300
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Sep. 11, 2022
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,050 - $1,350
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 12, 2022
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,100 - $1,400
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
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Mar. 13, 2022
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,150 - $1,500
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Dec. 12, 2021
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,250 - $1,600
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Sep. 12, 2021
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,300 - $1,700
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 06, 2021
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,450 - $1,800
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Mar. 07, 2021
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,400 - $1,500
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jan. 28, 2021
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) Teeter Totter. [CARTOON / COMICS / FEMALE / EISNER AWARD]
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) Teeter Totter. Ink on paper mounted to board. 320x540 mm; 12 1/2x21 1/4 inches, board. Signed "Brinkley" and dated 1915 in lower right margin. Laid into matte. Framed. Nell Brinkley, referred to as the "Queen of Comics," was one of the 20th Century's earliest female pathbreakers in the field of comics and illustration. Her unique style and flair were so popular that, by the time she was 25, she became a household name, Ziegfeld dressed his famous dancers as "Brinkley Girls," songs were written about her, and "Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers" allowed countless fans to emulate her chic, corkscrew-coiffed gals. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was so taken by her work that he called her from her native Denver to Brooklyn in 1907 to contribute to his daily papers. Over the following decades, her sassy all-American characters, mostly young working girls and those fighting for the war effort, carried the spirit of freedom and feminism that women were feeling and yearning to express. These "Brinkley Girls" were often engaged in more independent, bolder, and daring activities than those depicted by other artists of the day. This year, the San Diego Comic Con inducted Brinkley into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 28, 2021
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) The Pan Flute. [CARTOON / COMICS / FEMALE / EISNER AWARD]
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) The Pan Flute. Ink on paper mounted to board. 320x540 mm; 12 1/2x21 1/4 inches, board. Signed "Brinkley" and dated 1915 in lower right margin. Laid into matte. Paper mounted to board; pinholes along sides. Framed. Nell Brinkley, referred to as the "Queen of Comics," was one of the 20th Century's earliest female pathbreakers in the field of comics and illustration. Her unique style and flair were so popular that, by the time she was 25, she became a household name, Ziegfeld dressed his famous dancers as "Brinkley Girls," songs were written about her, and "Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers" allowed countless fans to emulate her chic, corkscrew-coiffed gals. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was so taken by her work that he called her from her native Denver to Brooklyn in 1907 to contribute to his daily papers. Over the following decades, her sassy all-American characters, mostly young working girls and those fighting for the war effort, carried the spirit of freedom and feminism that women were feeling and yearning to express. These "Brinkley Girls" were often engaged in more independent, bolder, and daring activities than those depicted by other artists of the day. This year, the San Diego Comic Con inducted Brinkley into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jan. 28, 2021
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) Blowing Bubbles. [CARTOON / COMICS / FEMALE / EISNER AWARD]
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
NELL BRINKLEY (1886-1944) Blowing Bubbles. Pen and ink on stiff paper, circa 1915. 450x304 mm; 17 3/4x12 inches. Tipped to window matte on verso in two areas along top. Framed. Nell Brinkley, referred to as the "Queen of Comics," was one of the 20th Century's earliest female pathbreakers in the field of comics and illustration. Her unique style and flair were so popular that, by the time she was 25, she became a household name, Ziegfeld dressed his famous dancers as "Brinkley Girls," songs were written about her, and "Nell Brinkley Hair Curlers" allowed countless fans to emulate her chic, corkscrew-coiffed gals. Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was so taken by her work that he called her from her native Denver to Brooklyn in 1907 to contribute to his daily papers. OVer the following decades, her sassy all-American characters, mostly young working girls and those fighting for the war effort, carried the spirit of freedom and feminism that women were feeling and yearning to express. These "Brinkley Girls" were often engaged in more independent, bolder, and daring activities than those depicted by other artists of the day. This year, the San Diego Comic Con inducted Brinkley into the Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
Swann Auction Galleries
Dec. 06, 2020
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,450 - $1,600
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 US Shipping $60 + insurance. AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Sep. 06, 2020
Nell Brinkley (NY,CO,1886-1944) watercolor painting
Est: $1,450 - $1,600
ARTIST: Nell Brinkley (New York, Colorado, 1886 - 1944) NAME: Portrait of Woman - Old Fashioned YEAR: 1938 MEDIUM: watercolor on paper CONDITION: Very good. Minor age toning. SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 13 inches / 45 x 33 cm MAT SIZE: 24 x 19 inches / 60 x 48 cm SIGNATURE: lower middle PROVENANCE: comes with provenance letter NAME VARIANTS: Nell Mac Rae SIMILAR ARTISTS: James Thurber, Franklin Booth, Amos Sewell, Norman Saunders, Edwin Georgi, Robert McGinnis, Haddon Sunny Hubbard Sundblom, John Held Jr, Charles Monroe Schulz, Pruett Carter, Jon Whitcomb, Charles Addams, Sidney Riesenberg, Henry Raleigh, George Gross, Jessie Willcox Smith CATEGORY: antique vintage painting SKU#: 116898 WARRANTY: 7 days returns accepted if item doesn't match description US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Artist Nell Brinkley's Brinkley Girls, were the delightful, bright-eyed and bow-lipped women of her newspaper columns throughout the early 1900s. The Brinkley Girls became household names across America. Nell Brinkley was born in Edgewater, Colorado on September 5, 1886. At the age of 17 she left home to pursue a career as an artist. After failing at her first job with the Denver Post, she went to art school for two years. She later worked for the Denver Times and after two years of drawing pretty girls for the paper she was discovered by William Randolph Hearst and hired as an illustrator for his newspaper the New York Evening Journal. At the Journal, Nell Brinkley illustrated columns about famous actresses, covered fashion and wrote reviews of Broadway shows all with her trademark style of beautiful women. Brinkley drew real women too, including actresses Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford as well as Hearst's mistress, entertainer Marion Davies. In 1920 Nell Brinkley married Bruce McRae, the son of a famous stage actor. Nell gave birth to one son, Bruce Robert McRae in 1923. The couple divorced in 1937. In 1918 Brinkley began producing full-page color serials for the covers of the Hearst newspapers' Sunday sections. Although Brinkley's artistic style adapted to the times, by the 1930s her artwork was falling out of favor with the public. In 1937 she resigned from newspaper work. In 1944 Nell Brinkley died of cancer.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Oct. 20, 2019
Nell Brinkley, Portrait Drawing, Pen and Ink
Est: $300 - $500
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), full length portrait drawing, pen and ink, signed and dated 1911 L/L, 14 1/2" x 10 1/2". Provenance: From a Lawrence, Massachusetts estate.
Kaminski Auctions
May. 22, 2016
Brinkley, The Flirt, Drawing
Est: $400 - $700
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886 -1944), "The Flirt", pen and ink drawing on paper, 13" h x 10 1/4" w (view), 14" h x 11 1/4" w (frame). Provenance: from a Massachusetts estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Apr. 10, 2016
Brinkley, "Flapper with Koi," Pen and Ink Illustration
Est: $600 - $800
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), "Flapper with Koi," pen and ink illustration, signed lower left, 13 2/3" h x 8 3/4" w. Provenance: From a Florida estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Apr. 10, 2016
Brinkley, "Southern Belle," Pen and Ink Illustration
Est: $600 - $800
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), "Southern Belle," pen and ink illustration, signed left, 13 2/3" h x 10 3/4" w. Provenance: From a Florida estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Jan. 17, 2016
Brinkley, "Reclining Flapper Girl," Pen and Ink Illustration
Est: $800 - $1,200
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), "Reclining Flapper Girl," pen and ink illustration, signed upper left, dated "1917," 8 3/4" h x 13 3/8" w. Provenance: From a Florida estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Jan. 17, 2016
Brinkley, "Flapper with Koi," Pen and Ink Illustration
Est: $800 - $1,200
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), "Flapper with Koi," pen and ink illustration, signed lower left, 13 2/3" h x 8 3/4" w. Provenance: From a Florida estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Jan. 17, 2016
Brinkley, "Southern Belle," Pen and Ink Illustration
Est: $800 - $1,200
Nell Brinkley (American, 1886-1944), "Southern Belle," pen and ink illustration, signed left, 13 2/3" h x 10 3/4" w. Provenance: From a Florida estate.
Kaminski Auctions
Sep. 10, 2013
Nell Brinkley American, 1888-1944 The Equestrienne
Est: $800 - $1,200
Nell Brinkley American, 1888-1944 The Equestrienne Signed Nell Brinkley (lc) Pen and ink on paper 13 x 8 1/2 inches C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Dec. 04, 2010
NELL BRINKLEY (American, 1886-1944); Three
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
NELL BRINKLEY (American, 1886-1944); Three original pen and ink with colored pencil illustrations for International Feature Service Inc., 1922-23 (framed); All signed, two dated; 12'' x 9'' and 10'' x 16''
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Dec. 04, 2010
NELL BRINKLEY (American, 1886-1944); Three
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
NELL BRINKLEY (American, 1886-1944); Three original pen and ink with colored pencil illustrations for International Feature Service Inc. (framed); All signed, one dated 1919; 9'' x 8 1/2'' and (2) 10'' x 13 1/2''
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Mar. 12, 2009
NELL BRINKLEY (American 1886 - 1944) Portrait of
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
NELL BRINKLEY (American 1886 - 1944) Portrait of Charles, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Charles Jr., 1930 Ink on paper 11.5 x 14.5 in. Signed lower right Drawn two years before Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr.'s tragic abduction took place on March 1, 1932, this sensitive portrait of the young Lindbergh family is made even more poignant by the knowledge of what became known as "the crime of the century." Property from the Tip and Patricia Freeman Collection.
Heritage Auctions
Dec. 08, 2007
Nell Brinkley (d. 1944)Illustration, probably New
Est: -
Nell Brinkley (d. 1944)Illustration, probably New York Daily Mirror, March 4, 1935; Summer romance fades by winter.
Illustration House
Feb. 09, 2000
Nell Brinkley American, 1888-1944 LOVES MANY FACES Signed (lr) Pen and ink and watercolor Sight
Est: $800 - $1,200
8 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches.
Doyle New York