“EB”. It’s certainly not Earle Bergey, so it’s gotta be Enoch Bolles trying out a different style and attempting to hide that the art was done by him, right? (But he left the E of EB very similar to how he normally wrote it so good detective work could figure it out a century later.)
I wonder if a «good detective» would not have started by reading : «C.B.» and ended by finding out a very early work of Carl Buettner ? https://www.pulpartists.com/BC.html
Besides, by 1927 Bolles was already an accomplished painter, so I reckon you must have been joking.
I have now looked over Carl Buettner’s signatures. Both the C and B are a stylistic match, but you have to look at multiple paintings to see it, ’cause he didn’t use this same combination on any painting I saw. On some paintings that same B was there, while on others the same C was there. So both style and signature now match. It’s most definitely him.
“EB”. It’s certainly not Earle Bergey, so it’s gotta be Enoch Bolles trying out a different style and attempting to hide that the art was done by him, right? (But he left the E of EB very similar to how he normally wrote it so good detective work could figure it out a century later.)
I wonder if a «good detective» would not have started by reading : «C.B.» and ended by finding out a very early work of Carl Buettner ?
https://www.pulpartists.com/BC.html
Besides, by 1927 Bolles was already an accomplished painter, so I reckon you must have been joking.
The tag is still not updated, so he’s not yet convinced.
FWIW, I will lend my own two cents and say, “The style is a perfect match for Carl Buettner. So…it’s him.”
I have now looked over Carl Buettner’s signatures. Both the C and B are a stylistic match, but you have to look at multiple paintings to see it, ’cause he didn’t use this same combination on any painting I saw. On some paintings that same B was there, while on others the same C was there. So both style and signature now match. It’s most definitely him.
Man days, bloody man days…