Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2019
Born in 1929 and well known in the world of illustration, Arnold Roth is an American cartoonist active throughout the latter half of the 20th century, with his work appearing in a number of noted publications and satirical magazines including The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy, Sports Illustrated and National Lampoon. We have an original framed watercolour artwork of the Montreal Canadiens and Stanley Cup done by the Philadelphia native, with this work appearing in a 1968 issue of Sports Illustrated. At approx. 20” x 28 ½” (exposed), a generic larger-than-life Canadiens player clutches Lord Stanley’s hardware amid what must be the Montreal skyline, while players from opposing clubs are swept away. Matted and framed to full dimensions of roughly 27 ½” x 36”, Roth has signed within the bottom left, with a second signature along the base added, as part of “For Chris and (Garth?) - in a puckish vein from Arnold Roth".
With no issues for the attractive original artwork, the frame backing over the reverse is weak and brittle, with the artwork loose and able to move somewhat within the frame.
Arnold Roth is an American cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so." Roth's art is in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Cartoon Art Museum (San Francisco), Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library and the Cartoonmuseum Basel (Basel, Switzerland), plus many private collections.
He received the National Cartoonists Society Advertising and Illustration Award (1982, 1984, 1985); Illustration Award (1976, 1979, 1981); Magazine and Book Illustration Award (1986, 1987, 1988); Special Feature Award (1979); Sports Cartoon Award (1976, 1977); Reuben Award (1983); and their Gold Key Award (their Hall of Fame) in 2000. He served as the organization’s president from 1983 to 1985.
On June 25, 2009, Roth was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame which honors artists for their “distinguished achievement in the art of illustration.” Past Society presidents select inductees
based on their body of work and the impact on the field of illustration. Roth was previously recognized by the Society of Illustrators with numerous Silver and Gold Stars.
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