Ellen Segner Art For Sale

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E B Segner /
Ellen Barbara Segner

(?? - 2001)

All descriptions of sizes are approximate and describe the board, page, or canvas the art is applied to.

The Sunbeam works were purported to have come from a sale at Segner's estate.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 1
This is a complex pastedown piece, all original artwork. For example: the painting of Miss Sunbeam and her basket is pasted down over a painting of a pumpkin. Watercolor.
Board is approximately 20 x 21. Condition: some pencil and paste-down crop marks. Some light smudges on the board.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 2
Miss Sunbeam holds a "Quality" ribbon. Appears to be gouache.
Board is approximately 13 x 14. Condition: white paint around the image is flaking in places. Light moisture (?) mark along bottom.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 4
Rare, full-body (as opposed to just upper body) of Miss Sunbeam as she frolics in Autumn leaves. Appears to be gouache.
Approximately 40 x 24. Condition: there is a one inch (or so) tear at the far right of the canvas (not in image area).

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 5
Beautifully detailed preliminary of Miss Sunbeam pulling fresh baked (and packaged!) Sunbeam bread from the oven. Pencil on board.
Approximately 19 x 10. Condition: some pencil smudging and finger prints, as one might expect, mostly outside the image.

Story art. Segner Item 7
Oil on canvas. Approximately 40 x 30. Condition: some crop mark paste-downs (the little crosses) and flaking.
NOTE: Since we don't know when or where this painting was used, we can only guess at why Segner originally had a background of a ship at sea with a woman wearing a blue skirt (see left and bottom) but then switched it to a fetching commie red head holding a blonde baby.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 8
This is a complex paste-down piece, all original artwork. For example: the painting of Miss Sunbeam is pasted down over a painting of fireworks. Not sure of the medium.
Board is approximately 24 x 19.5. Condition: some notations on the outer board. Paint flaking.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 9
Miss Sunbeam in another Thanksgivingn theme. Watercolor.
Board is approximately 25.5 x 15.5. Condition: some notations on the outer board. Crop-marks have come off, leaving tan rectangles.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 10
Another detailed preliminary of Miss Sunbeam, this time holding a daisy. Pencil on board.
Approximately 16 x 10. Condition: wome pencil smudging and finger prints, as one might expect, mostly outside the image.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 11
Miss Sunbeam as most remember her, on the package, enjoying a piece of buttered white bread. Watercolor or gouache.
Board is approximately 20 x 14.5. Condition: usual printer marks oustide image.
Art directors initials LR.

Sunbeam Bread. Segner Item 12
Miss Sunbeam as most remember her, on the package, enjoying a piece of buttered white bread. Oil on canvas, pasted on board.
Board is approximately 23.5 x 19.5. Condition: No noticeable flaws.