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The Illustration Market Is Red Hot. Wonder Why?

June 10, 2013 by Marion Maneker

Howard Chandler Christy, “Nymphs in Summer”
Howard Chandler Christy, “Nymphs in Summer”

The inimitable Daniel Grant has a nice piece in the Wall Street Journal detailing the rising value of famous illustrator’s work and Heritage Auctioneers’s role in that market:

Todd Hignite, who heads illustration-art sales at Dallas-based Heritage Auctioneers & Galleries Inc., says his gallery’s sales of illustration art have averaged just over $10 million in the past two years, up from $4.4 million in 2008. Along the way, Heritage has set auction records for a number of illustrators, including Howard Chandler Christy ($179,250 for his 1946 oil “Nymphs in Summer”), Maurice Sendak ($74,690 for a watercolor backdrop landscape for his book “Where the Wild Things Are”) and Garth Williams ($155,350 for his cover art to E.B. White’s “Charlotte’s Web”).

Beyond Norman Rockwell (Wall Street Journal)

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