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This endearing original 1967 oil on canvas painting by Gil Elvgren was created for the Brown & Bigelow calendar company and published under the title Ruffled Feathers. A spirited and colorful pin-up painting featuring a redheaded photographer in silk stockings and garters who runs into unexpected troubles as she attempts to capture the likeness of […]

Ruffled Feathers

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Brown & Bigelow, erotic, Gil Elvgren, glamour, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 28, 2017

This original 1920s oil on board by Henry Soulen was likely an interior spot illustration which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. The colorful, boldly painted, Orientalist scene shows a rickshaw and two figures in heated conversation in front of gates of what appears to be San Francisco’s Chinatown. Housed in a simple, original-to-the-painting wood […]

The Rickshaw

Artist: Henry Soulen

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Chinatown, Golden Age, Henry Soulen, orientalist, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2017

A pristine and important surviving Henry Clive illustration painting that appeared as the cover for the August 27, 1944 issue of The American Weekly, a Randolph Hearst publication. The magazine often commissioned Clive to create serialized images of enchantresses that shared a thematic thread. In this case – in the year 1944 the artist was […]

Global Glamour – Normandy

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, D-day, french, Golden Age, Henry Clive, hollywood, magazine cover, pulp, Randolph Hearst
Added to Gallery: June 9, 2017

Drying Nets – Mont Saint Pierre is an antique 1930s signed oil on canvas painting by the important American artist and illustrator John Clymer, signed lower right and titled on the back stretcher bar in the artist’s hand. The work is a fine American impressionist painting with dazzling impasto work, particularly on the nets being hoisted and […]

Drying Nets – Mont Saint Pierre

Artist: John Clymer

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: aquatic, arts & crafts, fine art, fishing, John Clymer, plein-air, Quebec Canada
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

Two squared jaw toughs slug it out as a pretty redhead damsel in distress looks on in this classic pulp cover painting for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Master Detective Pulp Cover Art

Artist: Mel Phillips

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Golden Age, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

Harry Barton painted this steamy gouache illustration for use as the cover of 1952’s Tender Hearted Harlot by Val Munroe. Published as a pulp digest, novella length story that takes place on the San Francisco waterfront and follows the proclivities of the young, bold and beautiful Ginny Parrish who… “is a gambler to the core – but the one thing she won’t bet on is love…” Sounds like a real page turner! The painting is in pristine condition and has been nicely matted and framed under glass, a copy of the published digest is included in the sale.

Tender Hearted Harlot

Artist: Harry Barton

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, erotic, gambling, Golden Age, Harry Barton, Honkytonk, lurid, machine age, original cover art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

This original gouache cover painting by Mort Kustler appeared on the June 1959 cover of Male magazine, illustrating an interior story titled “Madame Penal”. The cover slug text says it all: “Dramatic saga of the young woman who ruled the Middle East’s Cafard Compound, and of the handful of Americans and 1500 starved and broken wretches forced […]

Madame Penal

Artist: Mort Kunstler

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Golden Age, magazine cover, Men's Magazine, Mort Künstler, original cover art, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

A stylish and decidedly art deco cover illustration for the September 9th, 1939 issue of Liberty magazine, painted by the prolific illustrator Victor Tchetchet. Depicting a Carole Lombard-esque blonde bombshell in a Diana the Huntress mythological pose. Dedicated and inscribed to the fabled Hollywood film producer Otto Preminger, as seen lower right. Painting has been handsomely […]

Diana The Huntress

Artist: Victor Tchetchet

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque, Victor Tchetchet
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

Dating to the 1950s, this Mid-Century Modern original advertising illustration features a young, stylish, and well-to-do couple looking at travel posters and pondering their next destination. The African masks and tribal Zuni Fetish Doll on the mantle as well as the hanging modernist abstract art let the consumer know that this couple is sophisticated and well-traveled. A […]

Where To?

Artist: Richard Preyer

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, Cunningham & Walsh Advertising Company, Golden Age, mid-century modern, original illustration art, Richard Preyer
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

    A streamlined and modernist look at the attractions and Futurama-inspired architecture that graced the 1939 – 1940 New York World’s Fair. This tremendous and bustling work is by the noted muralist, illustrator, and fine artist Andre Durenceau, who was hired with much fanfare to create murals for the Metals Building at this fair. […]

Publicity for The New York World’s Fair

Artist: Andre Durenceau

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Andre Durenceau, art deco, machine age, muralist, new york city, pin up, The Golden Gallery, The New York World's Fair
Added to Gallery: April 8, 2017

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