Grapefruit Moon Gallery's collection of fine arts features art created for private patrons, gallery showcases, and public spaces. American Illustrators from the Grand Age excelled at this application of their skills -- mural work by Maxfield Parrish is legendary and an example still exists at the Saint Regis Hotel Bar in New York City. Henry Clive was commissioned to create glorious large art deco nude mural panels for long gone Los Angeles haunt "The Jade Room". And illustrators such as Charles Allan Winter, Arthur Spear, and even Rolf Armstrong were represented by galleries and sold to patrons of the arts at gallery-hosted shows.

A Nude Forest Nymph Visited By Satyrs Charles Bosseron Chambers	Psyche Paul Thumann

This large and luminous original watercolor painting by the famous Belgian painter Frantz Charlet dates to the turn of the 20th centuty and features a serene pastoral mother and child figural scene. Charlet, a student of the Acadeémie de Bruxelles and l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, known for his portraiture, landscape and genre work. Along with a group of ten colleagues, Charlet founded Les XX in October 1883.
Tranquility is a beautiful work of art that comes in its original wide profile, ornate gesso, aesthetic movement frame.

This signed 1936 watercolor by an unidentified artist presents a haunting look at the life of an urban bohemian in Greenwich village New York. Mixing the malaise and grit of Great Depression-era NY with romantic nostalgia for the artist's communities that flourished during the Ashcan school-period of the early 20th century, this scene presents a view of an artist attempting to find inspiration at the sight of his muse, a sensuously posed nude model, but sinking into debauchery as he cradles a drink in one hand with a tawdry book titled Eros laying on his table. On his wall, unseen by either the artist or model, are his previous creations, including a likeness of the napping dog at his feet. This is an inspired work of urban realism, that dates to the WPA period where unflinching looks at the hidden corners pf life were becoming an increasingly popular topic for the finest American artists.

A remarkable large scale exhibited fine art painting by Frederic Victor Poole titled "Kwan Yen", The Chinese Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. Painted in a bold and intricate art deco Orientalist manner this inspired and inventive work was exhibited at the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair in an all Illinois Society of Fine Arts show at the Stevens Hotel with a 1933 sales price of $2000.00. Encased in original gilded and carved frame with polychrome painted border and corner accents. In Buddhist doctrine Kwan Yen is the goddess of mercy, her name means "she who harkens to the cries of the world", she is unwilling to enter Nirvana because of her awareness of worldly suffering.

A large and important exhibited American impressionist oil painting by the Boston artist Arthur Prince Spear, 1879-1959. The painting features an outstanding large ethereal and luminous trio of sea nymphs in silhouette - ablaze at sea under a full moon. This is painted in an impressionist style with a textured heavy impasto technique. Housed in its original carved gold leaf wood frame.

This electric and inventive progress-through-industry themed gouache painting by Mahlon Blaine is signed and dated 1955. The image dramatizes the industrial era with a shirtless industrial worker forging steel in a machine-age apocalyptic scene that draws its light and intensity and sense of movement from the fire's sparking glow emitted from within an ominous furnace.

A large, inventive, and whimsical oil painting featuring a nude goddess disguised within a snow covered mountain landscape. Signed by the well-listed artist Sigurd Skou, verso is titled "Hills in Norway." Skou was born in Norway and studied with Anders Zorn in Stockholm and Paris. Throughout his career he traveled extensively and truly lived the artist's life staying active in bohemian circles in New York, France and Chicago.

The tenth and final proposed mural painting by Mahlon Blaine for a New York City interior showroom for industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, created in 1939 under the pseudonym G.Christopher Hudson. In this original gouache painting a nude uses a movie camera to capture assorted gadgets working together to become a Rube Goldberg machine, in a pointed commentary on the needless complexities of life in the machine age. Painting is handsomely framed and matted behind glass and is initialed lower left from the estate of Paul Ritter MacAlister.

The ninth of ten proposed mural paintings by Mahlon Blaine created for a never completed Paul Ritter MacAlister interior space in New York City. Under the pseudonym G. Christopher Hudson Blaine developed this sequence of dystopian views of the machine age. In this work a nude hand feeds dollar bills to an animate yet robotic cash register which serves as the greedy symbolic manifestation of industry. Again the artist employs a patriotic red & white and blue color palette to alarming effect.

This is the largest and most detailed and only signed painting from this series by Mahlon Blaine, number eight of ten the verso is titled "Nude on Gadget - Out of Control" and signed "G. Christopher Hudson" with a New York City address. In this image a nude sits atop the observation deck of the Chrysler Building high above New York City in a frozen in time Salvador Dali like winter surrealist cityscape. A frozen water faucet has created a block of ice that a nude goddess sits on oblivious to the cold as city workers attempt to break the ice and another hoists construction lumber from the skyscrapers iconic art deco modernist machine-age observation deck.

The seventh of ten mural concepts by Mahlon Blaine for a New York City public space designed by noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister. This work is stylistically a departure, a cubist abstract half man/half woman nude that guards or invites one into a passageway in a color palette and modernist style suggestive of Picasso.