J Wilber Ganterman Gehrig Drawing

[packs]

She would have been 54 in 1958. I would have thought an older person penned that but I don't know anything about her hand writing.

[Runscott]

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[veleno45]

I have come across a lot of Gonterman's prints, but nothing original. He was good, popular for pencil portraits of famous Americans. He was not great though and has not appreciated in value at all. Many of his works had a "signature" of his subject also that was also well done. I would have no opinion on the Gehrig inscription being real or not, other than stating again much of his work has very close "signatures" of his subjects. You can probably find his stuff on ebay from time to time.

Here is one of his of Thomas Jefferson as an example. (pulled from eBay)

[bigfanNY]

Thank you for info. I know that the Lou Gehrig signature is part of the drawing The signature I had asked Mr. Halper about was the Eleanor Gehrig at that time he was the only collector I knew that owned and had handled autographs of Mrs. Gehrig. This drawing is from a series of famous Americans I wonder if he drew any other baseball players he seems to have captured Lou very well.

[veleno45]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

Thank you for info. I know that the Lou Gehrig signature is part of the drawing The signature I had asked Mr. Halper about was the Eleanor Gehrig at that time he was the only collector I knew that owned and had handled autographs of Mrs. Gehrig. This drawing is from a series of famous Americans I wonder if he drew any other baseball players he seems to have captured Lou very well.

Yes, Babe Ruth was part of this series also. There are plenty of those that become available.

[bigfanNY]

Thanks when I noticed the o I searched and found a number of his prints including the Ruth and got the answer I was looking for about who he was and where he stood as an artist and illustrator.