- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), DAYBED
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), DAYBED WITH ROUTED ARROWS AND BUFFALO Fine Art
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), TEEPEE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), TEEPEE LAMP CA. 1936 Fine Art
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), TEEPEE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), TEEPEE LAMP CA. 1936 Fine Art
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), BRIDGE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), BRIDGE LAMP CA. 1945 Fine Art
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), COFFEE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), COFFEE TABLE CA. 1940 Fine Art
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), LOVE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890–1977), LOVE SEAT CA. 1940 Fine Art
- ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977),
ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), TEEPEE LAMP Title: Attributed to Molesworth (1890-1977), Teepee Lamp Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 10 x 10
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CHEST
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CHEST OF DRAWERS Title: Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977), Chest of Drawers Dimensions: 34 x 44 x 21 1/2
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), NIGHTSTAND
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), NIGHTSTAND Title: Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977), Nightstand Dimensions: 34 3/8 x 18 x 14
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CONSOLE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CONSOLE TABLE Title: Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977), Console Table Dimensions: 30 1/8 x 43 1/4 x 20 1/2
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890 -1977), CLUB
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890 -1977), CLUB CHAIR AND OTTOMAN Title: Thomas Molesworth (1890 -1977), Club Chair and Ottoman Medium: burled fir, half pole trim, leather, brass tacks, Chimayo weaving Notes: The Ryans were introduced to Molesworth by the Plains Hotel in Cheyenne and purchased a set of furniture. Lee Ryan had the first registered brand in Colorado: The N Reverser Bar whose brand is routed on the chair.
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CONSOLE
THOMAS MOLESWORTH (1890-1977), CONSOLE TABLE Title: Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977), Console Table Medium: burled fir, leather, wrought iron Dimensions: 30 x 41 x 24
- Thomas Molesworth. Burro ashtray stand.
Thomas Molesworth. Burro ashtray stand. c. 1938, wrought iron. 26¼ h × 8¾ dia in. result: $11,250. estimate: $3,000–5,000.
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH STYLE LOG CHAIR SET
THOMAS MOLESWORTH STYLE LOG CHAIR SET OF FOURThis is a fantastic, custom handmade Thomas Molesworth style set of four log and leather cushion chairs. The chairs are all handmade and truly high quality furniture from Jackson Hole or Cody, Wyoming. The set shows the classic log furniture style first made popular by Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977). These are signed on the bottom with a branded / burned bear with “S” at the center. Thomas Molesworth is known for creating the iconic Western Cowboy and Cabin style. The four chairs measure approximately 42" tall by 24 1/2" wide and 20 1/2" deep.*
- Mrs. Molesworth (Mary Louisa), 9 Volumes
Mrs. Molesworth (Mary Louisa), 9 Volumes of Childrens' Books by Mrs Molesworth illustrated by Walter Crane including The Girls & I, 1892, The Oriel Window, 1896, Four Winds Farm, 1886, The Rectory Children, 1889, Rosy, 1882, A Christmas Posy, 1888, The Cuckoo Clock, 1905, The Children of the Castle, 1890, Mary, 1893, The Tapestry Room, 1879
- (20) ENGLISH LIBRARY SHELF BOOKS, MOST
(20) ENGLISH LIBRARY SHELF BOOKS, MOST 19TH C.(lot of 20) English language library shelf books, many with gilt embossed leather binding, marbled or gilt foredges, highlights include: (1) "The Poetical Works of John Milton," volume I, notes by Rev. John Mitford, Henry T. Coates & Co., Philadelphia, 478 pages, detached boards, (1) "The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times, David A. Harsha, The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 520 pages, detached boards, (1) "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities," edited by William Smith, 1882, John Murray, London, 1293 pages, detached front board, (2) "The Life of Christ," volumes I and II, Frederic W. Farrar, eighteenth edition, Cassell Petter & Galpin, volume I: 480 pages, volume II: 523 pages, (1) "Pre-Historic Times," Lord Avebury, sixth edition revised, 1900, Williams and Norgate, London, 616 pages, (1) "Poets and Statesmen, Their Homes and Haunts in the Neighbourhood of Eton and Windsor," William Dowling, second edition, 1857, E.P. Williams, London, 312 pages, (1) "Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome," Lord Macaulay, 1893, Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 923 pages, (1) "The History of England from the Year 1830-1874," William Nassau Molesworth, abridged edition, 1878, Chapman and Hall, London, 608 pages, (1) "The Gordian Knot: a Story of Good and Evil," Shirley Brooks, 1860, illustrations by John Tenniel, Richard Bentley, London, 376 pages; most in poor condition, 39lbs total
- MOLESWORTH "JACK RABBIT" SCULPTURE,
MOLESWORTH "JACK RABBIT" SCULPTURE, WITH LETTER Thomas C. Molesworth (American/Wyoming, 1890-1977), "Jack Rabbit" - 1938, painted wrought iron. Apparently unmarked. Accompanied with typed poem by Mrs. Molesworth on her letterhead. Catalog Note: This ash stand decorated the living room at the TE Ranch in Wyoming, the former home of the Legendary Buffalo Bill Cody. Approx. h. 36.5"
- THE TE RANCH Lots 1002-1014 in this
THE TE RANCH Lots 1002-1014 in this auction are associated with Robert & Nell Woodruff's time at the TE Ranch near Cody, Wyoming.
The TE Ranch, established in 1895, was the 8,000-acre Wyoming home of Legendary Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) located on the South Fork of the Shoshone River. At the time of Cody?s death, however, the acreage had been scaled back to around 4,000 acres. Robert Woodruff originally met Colonel Cody while accompanying his father, Ernest, and Charles Wickersham (founder of Burlington Railroad?Wickersham had ?contracted with Cody to keep his crews supplied with fresh meat?) when they traveled from Atlanta to Montgomery, Alabama. Wickersham brought Cody and the young Robert Woodruff back to Atlanta for one of Cody?s national tours.
Robert Woodruff became the fourth owner of the TE Cody Ranch and visited it regularly with his wife, Nell, until 1972. The sprawling ranch and its incomparable mountain/river vistas were enjoyed by Robert and Nell along with their immediate families, close friends, and acquaintances, each provided with and encouraged to wea the TE long-horn steer bolla and TE monogrammed scarf. Hunting, fishing, and riding were celebrated daily.
The TE Ranch along with many of the other Western ranches began commissioning and collecting furniture and accessories designed and custom-made by Thomas Molesworth (1890-1977, referred to as ?The Pioneer of Western Design?, through his Cody-based Shoshone Furniture Company. The jack rabbit cigarette stand in this auction was one of his in-demand accessories and shows his whimsical nature. COWBOY & INDIANS Magazine classified Molesworth?s creations as ?Cowboy High Style?--an interior design flair that ?played up the romantic myth of the cowboy and the West.?
Christie?s in 1995 auctioned approximately 300 of Molesworth creations from the Old Lodge (circa: 1935) in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
The shoulder-mount Elk in this auction was shot and proudly displayed at this ranch.
- RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK
RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK / ENGLAND, FRANCE (1920-2011), I CARE II, 1970, LITHOGRAPHRonald William Fordham Searle, New York / England, France, (1920-2011) I Care II, 1970, lithograph Titled and numbered 58/99 lower left. Signed and dated lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. Searle was born in Cambridge where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In January 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the surviving drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945. At least one of the drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of these original drawings, approximately 300, are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old. He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge, and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books; and did animation in Hollywood and worked on advertisements and posters. Searle also drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life. In 1961 he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, theatre designer and creator of necklaces. In France he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the popular comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In 1975 the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye was released. Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result. Since 1975 he and Monica have lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. In 2010 he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany) now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, the ancient Summer palace of George 1st, that holds Searle's archives. Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was the subject of a long BBC documentary on his life and work by Russell Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur and in 2009 he received the German Order of Merit. lithograph
- RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK
RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK / ENGLAND, FRANCE (1920-2011), BAD NEWS, 1970, LITHOGRAPH, 30"H X 22"WRonald William Fordham Searle, New York / England, France, (1920-2011) Bad News, 1970, lithograph Titled and numbered 26/99 lower left, signed and dated lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. Searle was born in Cambridge where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In January 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the surviving drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945. At least one of the drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of these original drawings, approximately 300, are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old. He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge, and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books; and did animation in Hollywood and worked on advertisements and posters. Searle also drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life. In 1961 he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, theatre designer and creator of necklaces. In France he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the popular comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In 1975 the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye was released. Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result. Since 1975 he and Monica have lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. In 2010 he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany) now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, the ancient Summer palace of George 1st, that holds Searle's archives. Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was the subject of a long BBC documentary on his life and work by Russell Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur and in 2009 he received the German Order of Merit. lithograph Dimensions: 30"H x 22"W
- RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK
RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK / ENGLAND, FRANCE (1920-2011), CITY BIRD, 1969, LITHOGRAPH, 26"H X 19 1/2"WRonald William Fordham Searle, New York / England, France, (1920-2011) City Bird, 1969, lithograph Signed and dated lower right, numbered 52/99 lower left. Titled verso. Biography from the Archives of askART: Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. Searle was born in Cambridge where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In January 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the surviving drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945. At least one of the drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of these original drawings, approximately 300, are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old. He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge, and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books; and did animation in Hollywood and worked on advertisements and posters. Searle also drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life. In 1961 he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, theatre designer and creator of necklaces. In France he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the popular comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In 1975 the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye was released. Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result. Since 1975 he and Monica have lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. In 2010 he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany) now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, the ancient Summer palace of George 1st, that holds Searle's archives. Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was the subject of a long BBC documentary on his life and work by Russell Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur and in 2009 he received the German Order of Merit. lithograph Dimensions: 26"H x 19 1/2"W
- RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK
RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK / ENGLAND, FRANCE (1920-2011), VEGETABLE CITY, 1969, LITHOGRAPH, 26"H X 20"WRonald William Fordham Searle, New York / England, France, (1920-2011) Vegetable City, 1969, lithograph Numbered 28/99 lower left, titled lower middle, signed and dated lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. Searle was born in Cambridge where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In January 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the surviving drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945. At least one of the drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of these original drawings, approximately 300, are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old. He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge, and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books; and did animation in Hollywood and worked on advertisements and posters. Searle also drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life. In 1961 he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, theatre designer and creator of necklaces. In France he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the popular comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In 1975 the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye was released. Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result. Since 1975 he and Monica have lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. In 2010 he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany) now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, the ancient Summer palace of George 1st, that holds Searle's archives. Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was the subject of a long BBC documentary on his life and work by Russell Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur and in 2009 he received the German Order of Merit. lithograph Dimensions: 26"H x 20"W
- A PAIR OF NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE
A PAIR OF NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE LOUNGE CHAIRSA pair of New West Furniture Molesworth-style lounge chairs, 21st century Likely a contemporary design by Michael and Virginia Patrick in the style of Thomas Molesworth, two log wood frame chairs with carved skirts of horse heads at the rail and black leather upholstery with red piping, finished with brass tacking, 2 pieces Each: 35.125" H x 33.5" W x 30" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: Pair pictured in the "New West: Spring 2002" catalogue on page 26, fig CC31. Chair is referred to as "Custom Arm Chair." Displayed in photo with a similar side table as 14325-22. Dimensions: Each: 35.125" H x 33.5" W x 30" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra
- A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE
A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE LAMP TABLEA New West Furniture Molesworth-style lamp table, 21st century Log wood frame with a red leather top and carved saddle silhouette to lower door, finished with brass tacking 28.25" H x 16" W x 20" D Provenance: Property from the private collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: A very similar table is pictured in the "New West: Spring 2002" catalogue on page 26, fig ST8-B. Table is referred to as "Custom Side Table." Dimensions: 28.25" H x 16" W x 20" D Provenance: Property from the private collection of Gregory Sierra
- A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE
A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE COFFEE TABLEA New West Furniture Molesworth-style coffee table, 21st century A contemporary design table in the style of Thomas Molesworth; the tabletop with inset black, Chimayo textile as well as black leather banding; log wood spindle shelf beneath tabletop 21.5" H x 60" x 30" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: Pictured in "New West: Spring 2002" catalogue on page 47, fig. T19-CH. Table is referred to as "Chimayo Table." Dimensions: 21.5" H x 60" x 30" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra
- A NEW WEST MOLESWORTH-STYLE BURL POKER
A NEW WEST MOLESWORTH-STYLE BURL POKER TABLE AND SET CHAIRSA New West Molesworth-style burl poker table and set chairs, 21st century Comprising of a pedestal table with red leather octagonal top, finished with brass pyramidal tacking; accompanied by four keyhole chairs with a gunslinger motif on each back and rope accent, red leather upholstery on seats and arms and finished with brass tacking, 5 pieces Table: 29" H x 45.75" Dia.; Chairs: 36.75" H x 26.5" W x 18" D Notes: Table pictured in "New West: Spring 2002" catalogue on page 44, fig. T2-106A. Table is referred to as "Burl Pedestal Table." Similar chairs without the gunslinger motif are pictured on page 51, fig. C4-84B. Chair is referred to as "Keyhole Chair with Upholstered Arms." Dimensions: Table: 29" H x 45.75" Dia.; Chairs: 36.75" H x 26.5" W x 18" D
- A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE
A NEW WEST FURNITURE MOLESWORTH-STYLE CLUB CHAIRA New West Furniture Molesworth-style club chair, 21st century A newly manufactured burlwood chair in the style of Molesworth with red and black leather, accented with Chimayo upholstery fabric with a thunderbird motif; accompanying ottoman in red and black leather, both finished with hammered brass tacking, 2 pieces Chair: 32.75" H x 27.5" x 35" D; ottoman: 15" H x 24" W Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: This chair is illustrated in the "New West Summer 2002" catalogue on page 21, fig CC36. The chair is described as the "Club Chair with a 'Knee.'" Dimensions: Chair: 32.75" H x 27.5" x 35" D; ottoman: 15" H x 24" W Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra
- A NEW WEST MOOSE ANTLER CLUB CHAIR WITH
A NEW WEST MOOSE ANTLER CLUB CHAIR WITH OTTOMANA New West moose antler club chair with ottoman, 21st century Likely by Michael and Virginia Patrick for New West, a newly manufactured Molesworth-style burlwood chair with moose antlers and red leather upholstery, finished with hammered brass tacking; together with matching red leather ottoman, 2 pieces Chair: 30.75" H x 46.75" x 34" D; Ottoman: 12.5" H x 23.75" W Notes: An iteration of this chair appears in the New West summer 2002" catalog on page 21, fig. CC1-55A. Chair is identified as the "Moose Chair." A similar chair by Michael and Virginia Patrick is illustrated on page 58 of "Cowboy High Style: Thomas Molesworth and the New West" by Elizabeth Clair Flood. Dimensions: Chair: 30.75" H x 46.75" x 34" D; Ottoman: 12.5" H x 23.75" W
- A NEW WEST FURNITURE CO. MOLESWORTH-STYLE
A NEW WEST FURNITURE CO. MOLESWORTH-STYLE SOFAA New West Furniture Co. Molesworth-style sofa, 21st century A contemporary design sofa in the style of Thomas Molesworth with "knee leg" burl wood frame and black leather upholstery with red piping, finished with brass tacking; back cushions are upholstered in Chimayo wool in black and each side is accented with a carved image of a cowboy and his horse 34" H x 80" W x 36" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: Similar sofa is pictured in the "New West: Spring 2002" catalogue on page 29, fig. CO1-62. Couch is referred to as "Telluride Couch." This particular couch has added burlwood accent, but is otherwise identical to the one pictured in the catalogue. Dimensions: 34" H x 80" W x 36" D Provenance: Property from the Private Collection of Gregory Sierra
- A MOLESWORTH-STYLE WOOD FLOOR LAMPA
A MOLESWORTH-STYLE WOOD FLOOR LAMPA Molesworth-style wood floor lamp, 21st century A burlwood floor lamp with rope accents and applied conchos to base, lacking shade; accented with a cast metal steer head at end of pull 64.75" H x 16" W Provenance: Property from the private collection of Gregory Sierra Notes: Provided Summer 2002 catalogue from client for "New West" Furnishings located in Cody, WY features similar floor lamp on page 38, L6-31. Likely a custom-made lamp in the style of Thomas Molesworth Western furniture. Dimensions: 64.75" H x 16" W Provenance: Property from the private collection of Gregory Sierra
- LARGE WICKER BASKET WITH MISCELLANEOUS
LARGE WICKER BASKET WITH MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS FROM ANDRé LEON TALLEY'S COLLECTIONThe basket 19 x 30 x 20 in.
Including: Gentle Giants by Bruce Weber, Bulfinch Press, 1994, with autograph by the author to André Leon Talley; The Golden Age of the Princess by H.D. Molesworth, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969; Webster's New World College Dictionary MacMillan USA, 1997; The Complete Works of Aristotle edited by Jonathan Barnes, Princeton University Press, 1994; Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Barnes and Noble, 2004; To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Harcourt Brace and Co., copyright 1927; The Grandmothers: A Novel by Glenway Wescott, Atheneum, 1962; Beloved by Toni Morrison, Plume, 1988; Betrayed: A History of Presidential Failure to Protect Black Lives by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Westview Press, 1966; Jackie by Nicole Salinger, Editions Assouline, 1998, with 'Galignani' bookmark; Vingt-Cinq Ans Delegance A Paris, Editions Pierre Tinsne, 1951; Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl, St. Martin's Press, 1994; Poetics and Rhetoric by Aristotle, Barnes and Noble Classics, 2005; Olmsted: Writing on Landscape, Culture, and Society edited by Charles E. Beveridge, Penguin Random House, 2015; Three Plays by Mae West: Sex, The Drug, The Pleasure Man edited by Lillian Schlissel, Routledge, 1997; Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford, Hamish Hamilton, first published 1954; The Happy Summer Days by Fulco, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998; George Cukor: A Double Life by Patrick McGilligan, St. Martin's Press, First Edition 1991; Exiles by Michael J. Arlen, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970; The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion by Ford Madox Ford, Penguin Books; The Whims of Fortune: The Memoirs of Guy de Rothschild by Guy de Rothschild, Random House, 1985.
Condition
The wicker basket with minor wear and staining on the bottom. All books with wear consistent with age and use.
Not withstanding this report or any discussion concerning condition of a lot, all lots are offered and sold "as is" in accordance with our conditions of sale.
- THOMAS MOLESWORTH STYLE BUFFALO LAMP
THOMAS MOLESWORTH STYLE BUFFALO LAMP Thomas Molesworth style buffalo lamp with verdigris shade. 14" H
- RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK
RONALD WILLIAM FORDHAM SEARLE, NEW YORK / ENGLAND, FRANCE (1920 - 2011), ICARE II, 1970, ETCHING ON PAPER, 8/99, 25 1/4"H X 19 1/4"W, 33"H X 25 3/4"W (FRAME)Ronald William Fordham Searle, New York / England, France, (1920 - 2011) Icare II, 1970, etching on paper, 8/99 signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left. Biography from the Archives of askART: Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, (born 3 March 1920, Cambridge, England) is an influential English artist and cartoonist. Best known as the creator of St Trinian's School (the subject of several books and seven full-length films). He is also the co-author (with Geoffrey Willans) of the Molesworth tetralogy. Searle was born in Cambridge where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, currently Anglia Ruskin University, for two years, and in 1941, published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput. In January 1942 he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. The brutal camp conditions were documented by Searle in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the surviving drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945. At least one of the drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of these original drawings, approximately 300, are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old. He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge, and collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books; and did animation in Hollywood and worked on advertisements and posters. Searle also drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life. In 1961 he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, theatre designer and creator of necklaces. In France he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media, and produced books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the popular comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. In 1975 the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye was released. Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result. Since 1975 he and Monica have lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence. In 2010 he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany) now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst, the ancient Summer palace of George 1st, that holds Searle's archives. Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. In 2005 he was the subject of a long BBC documentary on his life and work by Russell Davies. In 2007 he was decorated with France's highest award, the Légion d'honneur and in 2009 he received the German Order of Merit. etching on paper, 8/99 Dimensions: 25 1/4"H x 19 1/4"W, 33"H x 25 3/4"W (frame)
- Thomas Molesworth style wrought iron
Thomas Molesworth style wrought iron smoke stand; jack rabbit form, textured surface. 38 1/2"H. Good condition, some surface wear.
- Thomas Molesworth burled fir and painted
Thomas Molesworth burled fir and painted parchment table lamp; hammered copper switch plate, mounted on textured parchment base. 32"H. Good condition with signs of wear. Dry surface and some crazing to paint.