Beschreibung:

1940s-1980s. A group of 24 original painted sketches, various sizes; 1 small original sketch, gouache on celluloid; 18 color and 2 black-and-white photographs, gelatin silver prints, various sizes; magazine clippings featuring Goff's artwork; housed in a white photo album, with a small card in spine's seam labeled "Mixed / Illustration" in pencil. This album mainly contains Goff's original painted sketches for illustrations for magazines like Colliers and Esquire, circa the 1940s. These colorful paintings include: A patriotic image of the Washington Monument; images of small-town Americana (a car stuck in mud, cows crossing railroad tracks, a wintry Christmas scene with a vintage car loaded with presents, etc.); a 19th century scene with a steam railroad, riverboat, and water mill; kids with fireworks staring at the first news photos of the atom bomb; the Robert E. Lee paddlewheel riverboat; World War II aircraft landing (captioned "Aleutians – Dutch Harbor"); a four-horse stagecoach; and a striking series of nine small painted sketches for an article on Prohibition-Era bootlegging titled "The Thirsty Twentys"; and more. Also, a small clipped illustration of a fireball. There are also various photographs, primarily small images of Goff's paintings. Other photographs depict Goff posing with the miniature town he designed for "Jolly Green Giant" commercials, a reproduction of his original design drawing for that miniature, and a color image of a design for the "Twinautilus," a multi-hulled version of Nautilus submarine that Goff created with his friend Tom Scherman. 1.5 x 12.5 x 16.5 in.