William James Aylward

Village Street, France

William James Aylward's original lithograph, Village Street, France, probably dates from the early to mid 1920's. During this period, W. J. Aylward lived and worked primarily in France and exhibited his art at the Paris Salon. As the artist was known mostly for his fine marine paintings and posters, Village Street, France, provides an insight into other aspects of W. J. Aylward's art. Village Street, France is a fine, original example of the lithographic landscape art created by the American artist and illustrator, William James Aylward,

Village Street, France

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Title:	Village Street, France
Artist:	Aylward, William James (Milwaukee, 1875 - Bath, New York, 1956)
Date:	c. 1920 - 1925
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Note:	William James Aylward 'W. J. Aylward': A major twentieth century artist of seafaring subjects, W. J. Aylward studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students' League, New York, and under Howard Pyle at the Delaware School of Illustration. Aylward began his career as an illustrator for both Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Examples of his illustrated work for those magazines include, The Breeches Buoy, Colliers (1908), The Christmas-Tree Ship, Harper's Weekly, (1909), The Secret Sharer, Harper's Magazine (1910), Steamboating Through Dixie written and illustrated for Harper's Monthly (1915), The Clipper Ship and Her Seaman, Scribner's (1917), and many others. By 1910 he was exhibiting his paintings and drawings nationally. In 1911 Aylward received the Shaw purchase prize at the Salmagundi Club, in 1912 the Beck prize from the Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and in 1914 the Salmagundi prize for Illustration. Some of his more famous illustrated books include Jules Verne's, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1925), Jack London's, Sea Wolf, and several novels by Joseph Conrad.
	During World War One William James Aylward served as an official war artist for the United States Army in France. Many of his wartime paintings and drawings are now in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. At the end of the war (1918), Aylward lived and worked in Europe for the following eight years.
	W. J. Aylward was a full member of the Society of Illustrators, New York. He was also a respected art teacher. Upon his return to America he held teaching positions at the Pratt Industrial Art School and at the Newark School of Fine Art. William James Aylward was the author of Ships and How to Draw Them.
Provenance:	This original James Aylward lithograph entitled, Village Street, France hails from the estate of LeRoy Latham and thence to his heirs. LeRoy Latham (1874-1938) was Chairman of Latham Lithographing Company (Latham Litho & Printing Co.), also listed as the (Latham Lith. & Ptg. Co.). Situated in Brooklyn, New York, it was one of America's largest lithographic printing establishments in the early twentieth century. His large print collection consisted of many examples of French and British nineteenth century lithographs as well as contemporary American lithographs, etchings and wood engravings.
	Note: For this W. J. Aylward has written, "To Mr. LeRoy Latham", in the lower left margin.
Size:	11 1/84 X 9 1/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $450.00 US
Condition:	Printed on wove paper and with full margins as published around the above date. Signed within the stone by the artist to the lower right and pencil signed and dedicated to LeRoy Latham along the lower margin. Containing slight soiling and staining in the outer margins, else a fine and in good condition throughout. Village Street, France represents a beautiful, original example of the art of William James Aylward.
Subject:	William James Aylward, W. J. Aylward Village Street, France, original lithograph, Howard Pyle, LeRoy Latham, official war artist, marine paintings and posters.
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