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APPRAISER: So this is a 
charming-looking scene. 
What do you, what do 
you think's going on

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here?

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GUEST: I think this boy might 
be in a little bit of trouble. 
Got his ball in the flower

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bed there. And Mom 
doesn't look too happy.

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APPRAISER: Yeah, she looks none 
too pleased, the wagging finger 
right there. I'm sure many

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of us can relate to this 
scene from our childhood.

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GUEST: Uh-huh.

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APPRAISER: And tell me a 
little bit about the painting. 
How, how did you come by it?

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GUEST: I bought it at a 
rummage sale a few years ago.

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APPRAISER: A rummage sale.

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GUEST: Yes.

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APPRAISER: Okay.

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GUEST: Less than ten bucks.

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APPRAISER: Less than ten 
dollars, okay. And do you 
know who the artist is?

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GUEST: Um, Andrew Loomis.

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APPRAISER: Andrew Loomis, yes. 
It's signed down in the bottom 
right here quite clearly.

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GUEST: Yep, right.

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APPRAISER: And he was best 
known for being an illustrator, 
but he was, actually, he was

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also very well known 
as a, as an educator.

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GUEST: Huh.

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APPRAISER: He wrote a series of 
books, how-to books. The first 
one is "Fun with your Pencil,"

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I believe it was called. And 
that was published in 1939. So 
these books were really, really

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popular and influenced a whole 
generation of illustrators and 
art students about drawing,

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and how to do figure drawing, 
that kind of thing, so... But 
what we're dealing with here

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is the illustration art side 
of his career. And he was from 
New York state originally,

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born there at the tail 
end of the 19th century, 
1892. But mainly connected 
with Chicago. Spent

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quite a lot of time there, set 
up his own design studio, his 
own, his own business there.

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He'd previously worked in 
advertising for companies who 
worked with Coca-Cola, Lucky

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Strikes, um... Kellogg's-- 
all those sort of things. But 
this one was probably done

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for a magazine. We don't know 
which one yet. We will probably 
need a little bit more research

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on that. Looking at the, 
the costume and just the 
overall feel of it, it 
may have been painted

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in the 1930s or so. This is 
oil on canvas. And it tells 
a very nice story here. It's

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an interesting market for 
illustration art just now. For 
many years, the American art

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market was really very much 
focused on 19th-century 
paintings-- you know, 
the Hudson River School,

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American Impressionism, that 
kind of thing. And while 
there's still a lot of interest

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in those fields, they've kind 
of been taken over by Western 
art, modernism, and very much

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illustration art. And 
the big sales of American 
art that you would get, 
quite often, illustration

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art back in the day was 
relegated to the end 
of the catalogue. Now 
it's likely to be on

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the front cover, so 
there's a lot more interest 
than there used to be, 
led by the great titans

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of illustration art-- artists 
like Norman Rockwell and N.C. 
Wyeth. Now, Mr. Loomis isn't

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quite of that caliber, but 
he's still very well regarded. 
You know, you could think of

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him as sort of second or third 
tier, perhaps, of illustration 
artists. Have you ever given

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any thought as to the value 
of the work that you bought?

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GUEST: Well, I know it was 
worth ten bucks. (laughs)

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APPRAISER: I think it's 
worth a little bit more 
than ten bucks now.

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GUEST: Great.

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APPRAISER: I think at auction, 
you should be looking at, 
comfortably, $4,000 to $6,000.

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GUEST: Nice!

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APPRAISER: Not bad, right?

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GUEST: Very nice.

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APPRAISER: Not a bad return.

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GUEST: That's 
awesome. Thank you.

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APPRAISER: Good. Well, I hope 
you're pleased with that.

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GUEST: Yes, very much.

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APPRAISER: I hope you continue 
to go to rummage sales.

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GUEST: Oh, definitely.