WEBVTT 00:02.033 --> 00:02.866 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% APPRAISER: So this is a charming-looking scene. What do you, what do you think's going on 00:02.866 --> 00:04.933 align:left position:40% line:89% size:50% here? 00:04.933 --> 00:07.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% GUEST: I think this boy might be in a little bit of trouble. Got his ball in the flower 00:07.400 --> 00:10.300 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% bed there. And Mom doesn't look too happy. 00:10.300 --> 00:14.533 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Yeah, she looks none too pleased, the wagging finger right there. I'm sure many 00:14.533 --> 00:16.700 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% of us can relate to this scene from our childhood. 00:16.700 --> 00:18.700 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Uh-huh. 00:18.700 --> 00:20.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And tell me a little bit about the painting. How, how did you come by it? 00:20.233 --> 00:22.333 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: I bought it at a rummage sale a few years ago. 00:22.333 --> 00:23.333 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPRAISER: A rummage sale. 00:23.333 --> 00:24.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Yes. 00:24.333 --> 00:25.333 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% APPRAISER: Okay. 00:25.333 --> 00:27.400 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: Less than ten bucks. 00:27.400 --> 00:29.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Less than ten dollars, okay. And do you know who the artist is? 00:29.033 --> 00:31.100 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% GUEST: Um, Andrew Loomis. 00:31.100 --> 00:34.600 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: Andrew Loomis, yes. It's signed down in the bottom right here quite clearly. 00:34.600 --> 00:36.600 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Yep, right. 00:36.600 --> 00:38.066 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: And he was best known for being an illustrator, but he was, actually, he was 00:38.066 --> 00:39.866 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% also very well known as a, as an educator. 00:39.866 --> 00:41.966 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Huh. 00:41.966 --> 00:45.266 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: He wrote a series of books, how-to books. The first one is "Fun with your Pencil," 00:45.266 --> 00:49.800 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% I believe it was called. And that was published in 1939. So these books were really, really 00:49.800 --> 00:54.766 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% popular and influenced a whole generation of illustrators and art students about drawing, 00:56.833 --> 00:58.900 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% and how to do figure drawing, that kind of thing, so... But what we're dealing with here 00:58.900 --> 01:03.866 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% is the illustration art side of his career. And he was from New York state originally, 01:06.400 --> 01:11.400 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% born there at the tail end of the 19th century, 1892. But mainly connected with Chicago. Spent 01:13.433 --> 01:18.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% quite a lot of time there, set up his own design studio, his own, his own business there. 01:20.133 --> 01:23.733 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% He'd previously worked in advertising for companies who worked with Coca-Cola, Lucky 01:25.666 --> 01:29.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% Strikes, um... Kellogg's-- all those sort of things. But this one was probably done 01:31.266 --> 01:35.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% for a magazine. We don't know which one yet. We will probably need a little bit more research 01:35.166 --> 01:40.166 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% on that. Looking at the, the costume and just the overall feel of it, it may have been painted 01:42.266 --> 01:45.200 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in the 1930s or so. This is oil on canvas. And it tells a very nice story here. It's 01:48.600 --> 01:53.566 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% an interesting market for illustration art just now. For many years, the American art 01:56.033 --> 01:58.766 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% market was really very much focused on 19th-century paintings-- you know, the Hudson River School, 02:00.700 --> 02:03.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% American Impressionism, that kind of thing. And while there's still a lot of interest 02:03.400 --> 02:08.400 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% in those fields, they've kind of been taken over by Western art, modernism, and very much 02:10.966 --> 02:15.333 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% illustration art. And the big sales of American art that you would get, quite often, illustration 02:17.300 --> 02:20.633 align:left position:20% line:71% size:70% art back in the day was relegated to the end of the catalogue. Now it's likely to be on 02:20.633 --> 02:25.633 align:left position:10% line:71% size:80% the front cover, so there's a lot more interest than there used to be, led by the great titans 02:27.666 --> 02:31.166 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% of illustration art-- artists like Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth. Now, Mr. Loomis isn't 02:33.133 --> 02:37.333 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% quite of that caliber, but he's still very well regarded. You know, you could think of 02:39.366 --> 02:42.233 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% him as sort of second or third tier, perhaps, of illustration artists. Have you ever given 02:42.233 --> 02:47.100 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% any thought as to the value of the work that you bought? 02:47.100 --> 02:50.266 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% GUEST: Well, I know it was worth ten bucks. (laughs) 02:50.266 --> 02:53.500 align:left position:20% line:77% size:70% APPRAISER: I think it's worth a little bit more than ten bucks now. 02:53.500 --> 02:55.600 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Great. 02:55.600 --> 02:59.033 align:left position:10% line:77% size:80% APPRAISER: I think at auction, you should be looking at, comfortably, $4,000 to $6,000. 02:59.033 --> 03:00.100 align:left position:30% line:89% size:60% GUEST: Nice! 03:00.100 --> 03:01.166 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPRAISER: Not bad, right? 03:01.166 --> 03:02.266 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Very nice. 03:02.266 --> 03:03.700 align:left position:10% line:89% size:80% APPRAISER: Not a bad return. 03:03.700 --> 03:05.333 align:left position:20% line:83% size:70% GUEST: That's awesome. Thank you. 03:05.333 --> 03:07.933 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: Good. Well, I hope you're pleased with that. 03:07.933 --> 03:09.366 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Yes, very much. 03:09.366 --> 03:10.166 align:left position:10% line:83% size:80% APPRAISER: I hope you continue to go to rummage sales. 03:10.166 --> 03:11.000 align:left position:20% line:89% size:70% GUEST: Oh, definitely.