by Rehg | Mar 6, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Lisa Owens of MidDreamers: A Look into the Mystery of Fairies Through Her Art is a soft title for this young California artist that has created over 600 polymer creations from the fairy world. Art Of Toys is so proud to feature Lisa as part of the annual Fairy and...
by Rehg | Mar 6, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Car artist Jeffery Beckerleg from the foothills of the Sierras to Art Of Toys as a featured artist in our annual “Cars” show. The artist, Jeffery Beckerleg, resides in Georgetown, California where he works out of his studios. His art covers a broad range...
by Rehg | Feb 26, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I love the old Fisher Price toys and have had customers come into the gallery and reminisce when they see them in the vintage section on their own toys. Most styles are easy to track their era by the printed paper lithos that make up the outside. The Fisher Price Toy...
by Rehg | Feb 25, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Daunine Vining maintains her studio in the woods next to a flowing creek in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. This is where she likes to design her marionettes and full body puppets. She has worked as an interior designer in Los Angeles, Mexico, New York and...
by Rehg | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
Hansa’s Portraits in Nature is a handcrafted collection of realistic plush animals. Artists working in a socially and environmentally responsible studio create each Hansa animal from portraits of the creature in its natural habitat. The “coat” of each character is...
by Rehg | Feb 24, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I LOVE the simple lines of the graphic images of artist Keith Haring so much that I imported toys from France with his images! I was amazed to discover how few people know this talented young artist, Keith Haring Artist of the 80’s Keith Allen Haring was an...
by Rehg | Feb 24, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I came across a reference book in my library,”Cartoon Collectibles” that had a fun description of life in the 30’s that I thought I would share today! Informative for younger generations and nostalgic for you of that era….mind how the whole family evolves around...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
In 1939 a new toy, Self-Locking Building Bricks were patented by plastic pioneer, Harley Fisher Page, founder of Kiddicraft Company. By 1945 he had improved the blocks by adding channels which inspired Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the man who gave the world the LEGO...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Midgetoy -Brief Company History It was 1943 when Alvin and Earl Herdklotz formed the A & E Tool and Gage Co. Their first products included precision tooling such as gauges that measured the contours and shapes of airplane propellers. With the end of World War...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
A.C. Gilbert, a toy manufacturer and Olympic gold medalist in the pole vault, unveiled his first Erector set in 1913, one-upping the contemporary Meccano building toy by allowing kids to build square girders. With a pulley, gears and strips of metal, kids could build...
