Thistlethwaite Americana » Thistlethwaite Americana | » Products https://thistleamericana.com American Antiques Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:47:46 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.34 The Hunting Camp by Fredrick Wagener https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-hunting-camp-by-fredrick-wagener/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-hunting-camp-by-fredrick-wagener/#comments Thu, 12 Dec 2024 21:41:44 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19441 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-hunting-camp-by-fredrick-wagener/feed/ 0 The Maiden and the Stag by Fredrick Wagener https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-maiden-and-the-stag/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-maiden-and-the-stag/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:51:00 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19445 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/the-maiden-and-the-stag/feed/ 0 Rare Presidential Engraving of Thomas Jefferson https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/rare-presidential-engraving-of-thomas-jefferson/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/rare-presidential-engraving-of-thomas-jefferson/#comments Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:12:05 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19176 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/rare-presidential-engraving-of-thomas-jefferson/feed/ 0 Celebration of Lafayette’s Return To Alexandria, VA https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/celebration-of-lafayettes-return-to-alexandria-va/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/celebration-of-lafayettes-return-to-alexandria-va/#comments Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:57:07 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19171 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/celebration-of-lafayettes-return-to-alexandria-va/feed/ 0 Black Stallion by John McAuliffe https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/black-stallion/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/black-stallion/#comments Mon, 10 Apr 2023 19:05:16 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19011
John McAuliffe (1830-1900) New York Circa 1875 Oil on Canvas   This painting features a black stallion front and center in the foreground with a mare and foal in the background. Further in the background is a landscape of a city. This painting is a quintessential McAuliffe who was a well-known horse painter
  Artist bio: John McAuliffe, born in Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1847. He was originally a house painter, but, as he had a natural gift for drawing and painting horses, he soon took to that as a business.  He painted extensively for the later Robert Bonner, Commodore Dickinson, Col. Kipp, Sheppard Knapp, Gabe Case, and Mesrs. Wakeman, Hammond, and others.]]>
John McAuliffe (1830-1900) New York Circa 1875 Oil on Canvas   This painting features a black stallion front and center in the foreground with a mare and foal in the background. Further in the background is a landscape of a city. This painting is a quintessential McAuliffe who was a well-known horse painter
  Artist bio: John McAuliffe, born in Ireland, emigrated to the United States in 1847. He was originally a house painter, but, as he had a natural gift for drawing and painting horses, he soon took to that as a business.  He painted extensively for the later Robert Bonner, Commodore Dickinson, Col. Kipp, Sheppard Knapp, Gabe Case, and Mesrs. Wakeman, Hammond, and others.]]> https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/black-stallion/feed/ 0 Colonial Revival Screen https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/colonial-revival-screen/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/colonial-revival-screen/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:16:51 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=18673 The Yellow Kid.   Allen Saalburg studied painting at Pratt Institute, and with William Sloan at the Art Students League, 1918-1920. In 1927, he joined his brother, Leslie, an illustrator, in Paris for three years.  He exhibited paintings at Bernheim-Jeune, the Right Bank gallery known for its adventurous displays of early modern art.   Saalburg's paintings were exhibited in a one-man show in November 1929, some months after fellow American Gerald Murphy's larger exhibition.  The exhibit alluded playfully to American historical subjects, such as the tobacco trade.  He returned to New York in 1930, where he rejoined a largely literary circle that included Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Robert Benchley, and Marc Connelly.   In 1937, Connelly asked Saalburg to art direct the Hollywood movie of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures, with its pioneering all-black cast; Saalburg's backdrop paintings were acquired by Gertrude Whitney for the Whitney Museum.  He also designed sets for Enig Bagnold's Two Bouquets on Broadway. He showed paintings at the Kraushaar Gallery and the Whitney Museum (1938).   He continued to paint murals for private and institutional clients, and he began painting covers and interior illustrations for Fortune, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Saturday Evening Post, and other publications.  In 1935, Juliana Force, the director of the Whitney Museum and organizer of the first Federal Art Program in New York, introduced Saalburg's work to the Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses, who put him in charge of the WPA mural projects for the entire parks department.   Projects included the Old Stone House at Gowanus in Brooklyn, the Arsenal in Central Park (where Moses had his office), the bar room of the newly created Tavern on the Green, and the terrace restaurant at the zoo.  In the mid-1930s, he entered into a partnership to produce murals with Louis Bouche and Everett Henry, then the only such firm in the U.S.   Among their projects were twelve murals for the cocktail lounge cars of the ultramodern trains commissioned from industrial designer Raymond Loewy by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the original gourmet shop at Bloomingdale's, and a mural with eighteen interior panels for the Home Building Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.   Saalburg joined his friends S.J. Perelman, Dorothy Parker, photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, the painter Henry Schnakenberg, and many others in moving to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.   At the first part of a weekend colony, he moved to Uhlerstown in 1947 and opened his studio, the Canal Press, in nearby Frenchtown, New Jersey.  He continued to paint while experimenting with the silk-screen process; his prints on glass and paper were sold principally through the New York Graphic Society during the 1950s and '60s.   Mural projects from this period included screen-printing the Clairol Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in New York, an entirely glass building.  Saalburg continued to show new paintings and limited edition screenprints in one-man shows at the Bodley Gallery in New York and in the Bucks County area until the early 1980s.   Saalburg was married to and divorced from costume/fashion designer Muriel King, and the painter Mary Faulconer.  He died July 17, 1987.   Collections: The U.S. Air Force Historical Art Collection, Washington D.C.; The Whitney Museum, Juliana Force Collection; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA.   Written and submitted January 2003 by Prudence Crowther, Business Week, New York City.   WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT IT: The imagery of the colonial mansion is very reminiscent of the early scenes of Gone with the Wind. It takes us back in time through the vivid colors and whimsical scenes.]]> The Yellow Kid.   Allen Saalburg studied painting at Pratt Institute, and with William Sloan at the Art Students League, 1918-1920. In 1927, he joined his brother, Leslie, an illustrator, in Paris for three years.  He exhibited paintings at Bernheim-Jeune, the Right Bank gallery known for its adventurous displays of early modern art.   Saalburg's paintings were exhibited in a one-man show in November 1929, some months after fellow American Gerald Murphy's larger exhibition.  The exhibit alluded playfully to American historical subjects, such as the tobacco trade.  He returned to New York in 1930, where he rejoined a largely literary circle that included Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Robert Benchley, and Marc Connelly.   In 1937, Connelly asked Saalburg to art direct the Hollywood movie of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Green Pastures, with its pioneering all-black cast; Saalburg's backdrop paintings were acquired by Gertrude Whitney for the Whitney Museum.  He also designed sets for Enig Bagnold's Two Bouquets on Broadway. He showed paintings at the Kraushaar Gallery and the Whitney Museum (1938).   He continued to paint murals for private and institutional clients, and he began painting covers and interior illustrations for Fortune, Vogue, Vanity Fair, the Saturday Evening Post, and other publications.  In 1935, Juliana Force, the director of the Whitney Museum and organizer of the first Federal Art Program in New York, introduced Saalburg's work to the Parks Commissioner, Robert Moses, who put him in charge of the WPA mural projects for the entire parks department.   Projects included the Old Stone House at Gowanus in Brooklyn, the Arsenal in Central Park (where Moses had his office), the bar room of the newly created Tavern on the Green, and the terrace restaurant at the zoo.  In the mid-1930s, he entered into a partnership to produce murals with Louis Bouche and Everett Henry, then the only such firm in the U.S.   Among their projects were twelve murals for the cocktail lounge cars of the ultramodern trains commissioned from industrial designer Raymond Loewy by the Pennsylvania Railroad, the original gourmet shop at Bloomingdale's, and a mural with eighteen interior panels for the Home Building Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.   Saalburg joined his friends S.J. Perelman, Dorothy Parker, photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe, the painter Henry Schnakenberg, and many others in moving to Bucks County, Pennsylvania.   At the first part of a weekend colony, he moved to Uhlerstown in 1947 and opened his studio, the Canal Press, in nearby Frenchtown, New Jersey.  He continued to paint while experimenting with the silk-screen process; his prints on glass and paper were sold principally through the New York Graphic Society during the 1950s and '60s.   Mural projects from this period included screen-printing the Clairol Pavilion for the 1964 World's Fair in New York, an entirely glass building.  Saalburg continued to show new paintings and limited edition screenprints in one-man shows at the Bodley Gallery in New York and in the Bucks County area until the early 1980s.   Saalburg was married to and divorced from costume/fashion designer Muriel King, and the painter Mary Faulconer.  He died July 17, 1987.   Collections: The U.S. Air Force Historical Art Collection, Washington D.C.; The Whitney Museum, Juliana Force Collection; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Bucks County Historical Society, Doylestown, PA.   Written and submitted January 2003 by Prudence Crowther, Business Week, New York City.   WHAT WE LOVE ABOUT IT: The imagery of the colonial mansion is very reminiscent of the early scenes of Gone with the Wind. It takes us back in time through the vivid colors and whimsical scenes.]]> https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/colonial-revival-screen/feed/ 0 Portrait of Henry Clay https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/portrait-of-henry-clay-2/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/portrait-of-henry-clay-2/#comments Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:24:24 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=19228 Why we love it: The most iconic image of The Great Compromiser. Without him, the Civil War would have happened a lot earlier.   Price: $18000]]> Why we love it: The most iconic image of The Great Compromiser. Without him, the Civil War would have happened a lot earlier.   Price: $18000]]> https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/portrait-of-henry-clay-2/feed/ 0 Going for an Afternoon Ride https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/going-for-an-afternoon-ride/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/going-for-an-afternoon-ride/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2022 21:56:34 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=18644 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/going-for-an-afternoon-ride/feed/ 0 Harry Lathrop Driven by Dan Mace https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/harry-lathrop-driven-by-dan-mace/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/harry-lathrop-driven-by-dan-mace/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:45:20 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=18636 https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/harry-lathrop-driven-by-dan-mace/feed/ 0 Boy on a Dressage Horse https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/boy-who-bit-off-too-much/ https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/boy-who-bit-off-too-much/#comments Wed, 09 Feb 2022 16:41:26 +0000 https://thistleamericana.com/?post_type=product&p=18668     WHY WE LOVE IT: Both the horse and the boy depict great attitude and this is the perfect small painting for any hunt country house.   Price: $3800]]>     WHY WE LOVE IT: Both the horse and the boy depict great attitude and this is the perfect small painting for any hunt country house.   Price: $3800]]> https://thistleamericana.com/inventory/paintings/boy-who-bit-off-too-much/feed/ 0