ARTIST: Raphael Ellender (New York, 1906 - 1972)
NAME: Illustration - The Naked Jungle
YEAR: circa 1954
MEDIUM: gouache on paper
CONDITION: Very good. Framed under glass. Wear to frame.
SIGHT SIZE: 17 x 15 inches / 43 x 38 cm
FRAME SIZE: 22 x 20 inches / 55 x 50 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
PROVENANCE: From the estate of Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, TV producer from California. Illustration for book "The Naked Jungle" - circa 1954, by Charlton Heston and Elenore Parker.
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Mr. Ellender won the Famous Artists School prize for oils, the Allied Artists of America award and the $1,000 Benjamin Altman prize for landscape of the National Academy of Design.He had been an instructor in drawing and painting at New York University, New York Community College and the Art Students League.Mr. Ellender, who was born in this city on Feb. 22, 1906, studied at Columbia College School of Architecture and Teachers College and was graduated in 1926. He did graduate work at Hunter. College, the Academie Colerossie in Paris, the National Academy of De sign and the Art Students League.He was a member of the Allied Artists of America and a life member of the Art Students League. He also was a member of the Manhattan and Marshall Chess Clubs.