Jack Davis Confederate Generals

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I recently acquired these incredible original pieces by cartoonist and comic illustrator Jack Davis. Davis created the distinctive look of the Crypt Keeper in the Tales from the Crypt comics and is best known for his work with Mad Magazine. His exagerated anatomy style and deep ragged detail is very recognizable. Davis was from Georgia and his Confederate sympathies were evident in much of his art. He did several series of Confederate Generals and this group is one of them inked and water colored.

This set includes Lee, Forrest, Beauregard and Jackson. While highly accurate, you can still see the comic style and exagerated features. I saw these and was immediately drawn to them and had to have them.

I thought yall might like to see them. My photos are not the best but you get the idea.

 

[Pete Longstreet]

I have to say.... I really like them. I've never seen his work before, nor have I ever seen this type of artwork depicted in a Civil War painting. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

These visually appealing caricatures focus on the facial differences.

 

[UCVRelics]

Interesting prints. The PTG is a little scary

 

[Pollaco]

All interesting but I feel that hat that Lee has in right hand is beyond anything Lee would be seen in ( in public anyway).

 

[Robert Gray]

Another example of Jack Davis artwork.

 

[Sheltowee]

So cool!

 

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If you are familiar with the work of Jack Davis, you know the distorted bodies and gangly arms/legs are his signature. He did several of these historic pieces that restrained that syle, but you can still see it in these, especially in their legs and feet.

They certainly have a comic book look to them, but that is what drew me to them. And yes some of the uniform items, red plumes, etc. are fantastical, but that's what make these unique.

Another thing that is interesting on the Forrest one, is he misspelled Nathan as "Nathon", strange.

 

[UCVRelics]

Another thing that is interesting on the Forrest one is he misspelled Nathan as "Nathon", strange.

He is an artiest not and English major

 

[Cato3rd]

I recently acquired these incredible original pieces by cartoonist and comic illustrator Jack Davis. Davis created the distinctive look of the Crypt Keeper in the Tales from the Crypt comics and is best known for his work with Mad Magazine. His exagerated anatomy style and deep ragged detail is very recognizable. Davis was from Georgia and his Confederate sympathies were evident in much of his art. He did several series of Confederate Generals and this group is one of them inked and water colored.

This set includes Lee, Forrest, Beauregard and Jackson. While highly accurate, you can still see the comic style and exagerated features. I saw these and was immediately drawn to them and had to have them.

I thought yall might like to see them. My photos are not the best but you get the idea.

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Sorry I'm a little late to this thread. But I just found this Grant print by Jack Davis. I bought it off Craigslist for 40 bucks. I didn't realize they were pretty rare until doing some digging. I can't find much information on them outside of some auction descriptions. The back of the print has some 1950s newspapers attached to it for backing on the poster board.

 

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Sorry I'm a little late to this thread. But I just found this Grant print by Jack Davis. I bought it off Craigslist for 40 bucks. I didn't realize they were pretty rare until doing some digging. I can't find much information on them outside of some auction descriptions. The back of the print has some 1950s newspapers attached to it for backing on the poster board.

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Very cool, I never saw this when you posted it back in 2023!

 

[JerryD]

They do have a Mad Magazine vibe to them. I keep thinking they are going to have voice bubbles to say something outrageous, ala some Mad Magazine bit.