F.R. GRUBER ORIGINAL 1924 PENCIL SKETCH 4 SAT EVE POST

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F.R. GRUBER ORIGINAL 1924 PENCIL SKETCH 4 SAT EVE POST FREDERICK RODERIGO GRUGER was a very proficient illustrator who, with the exception of a book written by Bennard B. Perlman, has received less notice than his skills warrant. The drawing shown here is an early 20th Century newspaper/magazine style of pencil-and-wash drawing on smooth cardboard. Frederic Gruger was born in Philadelphia in 1871. He mostly worked for the Saturday Evening Post , but left the Post in 1940 to be one of the illustrators of novels that King Features adapted for newspapers in cooperation with the Book-of-the-Month Club in those days. He retired from illustration and began teaching at the Pratt Institute in 1946 and died in 1953. I bought five of these drawings at a yard sale approximately twenty years ago and they have been wrapped up since then. The drawings are glued on cardboard and were probably matted and framed at one time. But the framing and mattes have been removed and there is some residual glue markings around the edges of the cardboard. This drawing is an illustration for the story, The Pyramid of Lead by Bertram Atkey that appeared in the September 1924 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. The drawing measures 16-1/2" x 13". PLEASE NOTE: The full photo was taken with a camera and from a distance. I have tried to scan all elements of read more