An original painting entitled "Custer's Last Stand", created by famous
historical painter and muralist Alton S. Tobey (1914-2005) will be
auctioned in an American Paintings sale at a well-known international
auction house at their New York City sales room on Wednesday, May 21,
2008. "Custer's Last Stand", an oil on canvas measuring 15-1/2 x
16-1/2 inches, was created by Tobey for the 12-volume series The
Golden Books History of the United States in 1962. Details on the
sale, the previews schedule and pre-sale estimates are available from
a link on Tobey's web site to the auction from his home page at
www.altontobey.org.
Alton Tobey received his BFA and MFA from the Yale University School
of Fine Arts, where he taught there and in other schools and privately
for a number of years before becoming recognized for his research
talents in History and Anthropology. Soon after this, he created a
number of murals for the Smithsonian Institution in Wa****ngton DC, for
the Land, Sea, Air and Space Museum aboad the USS Intrepid in New York
City, for The MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, VA and executed a dozen
more murals in public memorials throughout the US and abroad.
His paintings are in the collections of The National Museum of
American Illustraton, New****t RI; The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT;
The NY Historical Society and The Museum of The City of NY and dozens
of other im****tant public and private collections.
One of Tobey's most famous paintings, A Tribute to Calder, a ****trait
of Alexander Calder, the artist famous for his geometric mobiles whom
Tobey admired greatly, was recently shown at a meeting of the Calder
Foundation at the National Arts Club in New York, and a 20-page
profusely illustrated feature article on Tobey and his work appeared
in the Fall 2007 issue of Illustration magazine. A copy of the article
is also available from a link on Tobey's home page at www.altontobey.org.
Anyone interested in more information on Tobey and his work can
contact the Curator of the Alton Tobey Collection by email to
curator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or by phone to 212-260-9240.
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