Lot 135: BREHM, WORTH (JAMES ELLSWORTH BREHM). 1883-1928. BREHM, WORTH (JAMES ELLS

BREHM, WORTH (JAMES ELLSWORTH BREHM). 1883-1928. BREHM, WORTH (JAMES ELLSWORTH BREHM). 1883-1928. Charcoal on illustration board, This was the gloomiest hour in all that gloomy period, illustration for Booth Tarkington, Munchausen Penrod, Cosmopolitan Magazine, February 1915, p 252, 521 x 330 mm, signed lower left corner, matted and framed. Worth Brehm was a highly admired American book and magazine illustrator best known for his drawings of boys for Booth Tarkington’s Penrod and Sam (1916) and Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer (1917) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1923). He studied at the Herron Institute art school in Indianapolis and The Art Students’ League in New York City, and taught at the National School of Art also in New York. His brother George Brehm was also a well known illustrator. Pulitzer Prize Winner Booth Tarkington’s Penrod Schofield was once as popular with young readers as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Here he sits baleful in the barn with his dog Duke.