Bart Forbes is an American painter and illustrator. He has worked for most of the popular magazines, amongst them TIME and Sports Illustrated, Ladies Home Journal, McCalls, Golf Digest, as well as a broad selection of corporate clients. His wide variety of works include postage stamps for the US Postal Service, Time Magazine's Man of the Year article on Jimmy Carter, paintings of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, theme paintings for the PGA tournaments and club houses and paintings of the Dallas Cowboys for Jerry Jones' private jet. He was the recipient of the 1986 Sport Artist of the Year Award given annually by the American Sport Art Museum and Archives. "The Sports Art of Bart Forbes," a collection of his most famous sports paintings, was published by Beckett in 1998.
This lot contains 2 Bart Forbes 8 1/2 x 11-inch signed lithograph prints, 5 cover magazines featuring Bart Forbes artwork, 3 additional magazines featuring Bart Forbes artwork and articles about the artist, 11 Bart Forbes loose articles, flyers and ads, 4 Bart Forbes catalogues, a large lot of Christmas cards, letters, notes and miscellaneous correspondence, a 1980 Olympics first day of issue stamp, and other Bart Forbes US Postal service cards.
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