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Spain, 1929

Artist:Paul MacAlister
Date:1929
Medium:Oil On Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 15" x 20" Framed 20 1/12" x 25 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Presumably Fine Art or Possible Illustration of unknown origin
Price: SOLD
Full view of oil on canvas offering
Full view of oil on canvas offering
The artist's signature and date of 1929 and title "Spain" lower right
The artist’s signature and date of 1929 and title “Spain” lower right

An inventive early offering by the noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, titled “Spain” and dated 1929 in the lower right corner. The artist went on to be an interior designer especially noted for his mass-produced “Plan-a-Room” kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. This is a very well executed work it is done in the style of Erté and features an art deco nude goddess of the darkness cowering under the bright sunshine radiating from the corner of the canvas – superimposed in front of a pipe smoking skeleton that appears from the clouds.

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Framed in wide profile antique 1920's frame
Framed in wide profile antique 1920’s frame

A colorful and evocative original oil painting conceived in a trompe l’oeil “trick of the eye” manner.
We purchased a few estate items near Chicago recently from the artist and designer’s estate including ten rare and important mural concept paintings done by Mahlon Blaine in 1939 for a Paul Ritter MacAlister design showroom in New York City.

Frame profile and detail
Frame profile and detail

Paul Ritter MacAlister —

U.S. designer in Chicago. He served in the U.S. Navy during WW II in its Department of Training Devices, along with designer Henry Glass, under the head of its design program, Cleveland designer Viktor Schreckengost. MacAlister came to Chicago in 1946 to reorganize design at Montgomery Ward, and to conduct a color survey for them. He was one of the first designers to venture into television. He later served as a consultant and appeared frequently on the NBC Home Show. He developed and mass-produced a “Plan-a-Room” kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers.

MacAlister was president of the Industrial Designers Institute (IDI) in 1953. He founded, and for many years chaired, IDI’s pioneer national design awards program, which began in 1951 and continued until 1965. He was awarded IDI Fellowship, which was honored by IDSA when it was formed in 1965 by IDI and other organizations. He lived in Lake Bluff, IL.

1901 (Camden, New Jersey) – 1990 Illinois
Designer, collector, writer, illustrator

Methods
* Design
* Illustration, Illustrator

Some Exhibitions
* Art Institute of Chicago

Schools
* Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts-Student
* Yale School of Fine Art-Student

Spain, 1929

Artist: Paul MacAlister
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, chicago, Erté, industrial age, macabre, nude, Paul MacAlister, spanish
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2017

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

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