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Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Snowy Russia Painting

Roy Schnackenberg (American, 1934-2018) oil on canvas painting of a snowy Russian cityscape, signed center left. This artwork appeared on pages 126-127 of the October 1974 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the article by Herbert Gold titled "In Russian, "To Be Silent" is an Active Verb" with the caption "A great nation still waits in history with all its power, performing the act of a noisy, puzzling silence."

Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Landscape Canvas

Roy Schnackenberg (American, B. 1934) oil on canvas painting of a cross counrty skier, signed lower left. This artwork is labeled for December 1977 but did not appear in that issue of Playboy Magazine.  Run date unknown.

Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Gin Fling Painting

Roy Schnackenberg (American, B. 1934) oil on canvas painting of mixed drinks, signed lower right. This artwork appeared on pages 82-83 of the May 1964 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the article by Thomas Mario titled "Gin Fling," with the caption "Offbeat employment of the juniper berry's jubilant juices."

Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Football Painting

Roy Schnackenberg (American, 1934-2018) oil on canvas painting of football players. This artwork appeared on pages 116-117 of the August 1972 issue of Playboy Magazine, illustrating the article "Playboy's Pro Football Preview," with the caption "Artist Roy Schnackenberg's vivid painting shows the final play of the first quarter in the 1972 Super Bowl: Miami quarterback Bob Griese circling back from his own 38-yard loine in an effort to escape Dallas' Bob Lilly and Larry Cole."

Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Boston Landscape

Roy Schnackenberg (American, B. 1934) oil on canvas painting of a building of a landscape, signed lower left. This artwork was created for the January 1971 issue of Playboy Magazine, for a fiction short story by Michael and Douglas Chrichton totled "Dealing, or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues," but was not published.

Roy Schnackenberg, Cotton Couple

Roy Schnackenberg Cotton Couple oil on canvas 10.125 h x 15 w in (26 x 38 cm) Signed to lower right 'Schnackenberg'. Signed and titled to verso 'Roy Schnackenberg Cotton Couple'. Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner This work will ship from Chicago, Illinois.

Playboy | Roy Schnackenberg Playmate Assemblage

Roy Schnackenberg (American, B. 1934) original mixed media assemblage titled "Playmate" This assemblage appeared on page 154 of the January 1967 issue of Playboy magazine, as part of the pictorial "The Playmate as Fine Art: Eleven contemporary artists interpret Playboy's provacative gatefold girl" with the caption, "[Schnackenberg] tried to show the juxtaposition of images suggested by the Playmate" in his wood and plastic oil-painted relief of girl and rabbits. The sun-red Playmate figure is set in a 3 x 4-ft. box, and includes folding directions." LITERATURE: Arthur Paul, Beyond Illustration: The Art of Playboy, (Chicago: Playboy Magazine, 1971), catalogue accompanying an exhibition that traveled in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan between 1971 and 1974. 

Roy Schnackenberg (American, 1934-2018) Indian on White Horse, 1983

Roy Schnackenberg (American, 1934-2018) Indian on White Horse, 1983 oil on canvas signed Roy Schnackenberg (lower left) 81 x 100 inches Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois

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Horse Sense, 1967 oil on masonite 21 1/4 x 48 in. (54 x 122 cm.) RUN DATE: June 1967, Ernest Havermann, Horse Sense.

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The Good Blonde, 1964 signed 'Schnackenberg' (lower center) oil on canvas 31 1/2 x 44 in. (82.5 x 111.8 cm.) RUN DATE: January 1965, Jack Kerouac, The Good Blonde.