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Sam Cherry created this romance-themed Western  pulp painting for use as the June, 1943 cover of Thrilling Ranch Stories – Romantic Stories of The West. The image shows a pretty blonde sweetheart of the rodeo embracing a Wild West town sheriff, who grins as he contemplates his great luck. Not only did he seemingly get the girl, a bullet aimed at […]

The Sheriff’s Sweetheart

Artist: Sam Cherry

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, glamour, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, Sam Cherry, Thrilling Publications
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

      A large, detailed, preliminary calendar illustration by Andrew Loomis for a 1944 calendar commission of the Dionne Quintuplets that was titled May Time for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. The Dionne Quintuplets were a Great Depression-era pop culture sensation and cautionary tale. Their images were reproduced everywhere and cover articles appeared in Time and […]

The Dionne Quintuplets – May Time

Artist: Andrew Loomis

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Andrew Loomis, Dionne Quintuplets, original calendar art
Added to Gallery: July 27, 2016

A large and important bustling published colorful gouache illustration painting by Willy Pogany for an interior story titled “Nero’s Temple On The Nile”, which appeared in the January 12, 1947 edition of Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine. An over the top opulant Egyptian themed costumed imagining of life in ancient Rome, which appeared with the […]

Nero’s Temple On The Nile

Artist: Willy Pogany

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Cleopatra, egyptian, Golden Age, original illustration art, Randolph Hearst, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: July 26, 2016

This luminous, expressive oil on masonite was created as an interior story illustration by beloved american artist Tom Lovell, which has verso notations which lead us to believe this was published in the May, 1947 edition of American Magazine, a title the artist frequently worked for. A young snappily attired couple are shown surrendering to the […]

Gondola In Venice

Artist: Tom Lovell

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, American Magazine, glamour, Golden Age, gondola, italian, New Rochelle, Norman Rockwell, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Tom Lovell
Added to Gallery: July 17, 2016

An action packed damsel in distress fire rescue pulp cover painting by Sam Cherry for the February 1943 issue of Thrilling Ranch Stories – Romantic Stories of The West. A fearless square jawed handsome cowboy emerges from a burning building with a damsel in his arms, his pistol a blazin’, as our felled damsel struggles to regain […]

Burned Prairies

Artist: Sam Cherry

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, cowboy, damsel in distress, Golden Age, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, pulp, Sam Cherry, Thrilling Ranch, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

An unsigned oil on stretched canvas pulp cover painting for the December 1947 issue of the Thrilling Publications Western title Thrilling Western. A rugged square jawed handsome cowboy with a noose around his neck engages in a barbed wire shoot out illustrating the interior story Bullets and Salt by Bradford Scott. The stories tag-line as follows … When […]

Bullets And Salt

Artist: Sam Cherry, Atrributed

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, cowboy, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, Thrilling Western, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

A large and technically adept colorful gouache illustration painting by Mario Cooper for an interior story titled “Secret Voice of The Desert Oracle“, which appeared in the August 13, 1950 edition of Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine. An over the top Egyptian themed costumed processional, which appeared in print with the following caption: “Cleopatra Probably […]

The Desert Oracle

Artist: Mario Cooper

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, American Weekly, Cleopatra, egyptian, Mario Cooper, original illustration art, Randolph Hearst
Added to Gallery: July 12, 2016

This large and evocative interior illustration by Herbert Morton Stoops was commissioned by Cosmopolitan magazine to accompany a story titled “Swans Mate” which appeared in the September 1925 edition. The briskly composed Western frontier scene shows a wild west culture war where a citified young lady encounters a rugged cowboy on the edge of the frontier. The grizzled ranch hand is either amused or annoyed with the pert, […]

Swan’s Mate

Artist: Herbert Morton Stoops

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Golden Age, Herbert Morton Stoops, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Society Of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Honoree, western americana, Western Art
Added to Gallery: June 27, 2016

This remarkable gouache pulp cover painting by Alex Schomburg appeared on the February, 1961 issue of the long running Ziff-Davis magazine Amazing Stories – Fact And Science Fiction. Though the work seems like pure fantasy at first glance, it is based on the real-life practice of both the American and Soviet space programs of sending mice, dogs, chimpanzees and animals into space to […]

Amazing Stories Cover

Artist: Alex Schomburg

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alex Schomburg, magazine cover, Monkey, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, space exploration, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 16, 2016

Secure Cables is a moving and kinetic, exhibited, WPA aesthetic, signed and dated oil on canvas painting by the Scottish Artist Albert Gordon Thomas. This honors the hard working efforts of those who advanced industry and commerce during the dizzying years of the industrial revolution and machine age. This was exhibited in 1935 in Scotland at […]

Secure Cables

Artist: Gordon Thomas

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Exhibited, Glasgow, Gordon Thomas, Scottish, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 15, 2016

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