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A technically superb piece, this oil on masonite panel painting is a phantasmagorical science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. Finely detailed with fantastical, dream-like space exploration imagery, this painting illustrates a pirate ship navigating its way through the uncharted starry expanse of space. The rudders and masts steer the […]

Ship of Dreams

Artist: Raymond Bayless

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: sci-fi, science fiction, Space, space exploration, space travel
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2016

Boldly depicting a failed expedition to the Red planet, this oil on masonite panel painting is an otherworldly science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. A finely detailed piece with spectacular space exploration imagery, it presents a dilapidated spaceship that has crash landed onto the surface of Mars, its antennae […]

Life on Mars

Artist: Raymond Bayless

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: sci-fi, science fiction, Space, space exploration, space travel
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2016

With space opera style, this oil on masonite panel painting is an otherworldly science fiction creation by the American artist, illustrator, and writer Raymond Bayless. Finely detailed with fantastical space exploration imagery, the painting shows a collection of space ships, varying in technical prowess, that are trapped within an asteroid belt. Spidery alien creatures menacingly […]

The Sea of Lost Ships

Artist: Raymond Bayless

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: sci-fi, science fiction, Space, space exploration
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2016

    This striking and vibrantly colored oil on canvas pin-up painting by Art Frahm features a gorgeous redheaded nude draped in a lavender shawl. She delicately removes one of her high-heeled shoes while seated on a green fringed hassock. Her fair skin, red hair, rosy cheeks, and red lips are in beautiful contrast to […]

A Nude Cinderella

Artist: Art Frahm

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Calendar, nude, pin up, Thomas D. Murphy
Added to Gallery: October 26, 2016

This technically dazzling painting by the French-American artist, muralist, and illustrator Andre Durenceau shows a colorful art deco landscape conceived in the manner of Rockwell Kent, with a lake in the foreground and an oversized flying fish adding the surreal touch for which the artist was known to the scene. This gouache on canvas is signed lower right and […]

Flying Fish

Artist: Andre Durenceau

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Andre Durenceau, art deco, landscape, new york city, Rockwell Kent
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2016

Public art in the 1930s is today synonymous with the Works Progress Administration–a New Deal Federal program that underwrote regionalist and modernist fine artists by commissioning their work for murals that can still be seen throughout the United States. Less often remembered is how private industries during the Great Depression and World War II became patrons of the […]

Art and Industry During World War II

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1930s, 1940s, advertising, american, illustration, magazine cover, regionalist, World War II, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2015

It’s easy to see how much talent and passion artists working in America’s Golden Age of Illustration brought to their jobs, but we rarely have windows into the daily commitment to submitting work for consideration, and the accompanying rejection that was part of the illustrator life. For all but a few famous names like Maxfield Parrish and Norman […]

A Day in the Life of Illustrator Paul Strayer, 1918

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: advertising, american, illustration
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2015

    This unhinged and provocatively erotic original illustration by the artist & illustrator Mahlon Blaine dates to the 1940s. It has two functioning doors that when opened reveal the magicians assistant engaged in coitus with a horned satyr.  The gouache painting is housed inside an innocuous  faux wood, paper, hardcover display folio. Garishly colored and […]

Sawing Through A Woman

Artist: Mahlon Blaine

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: devil, erotic, Magic, magician, Mahlon Blaine
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2015

Earle K. Bergey’s spicy pulp covers are known for their provocative, even lawless sensuality. It’s the root of their wild, jazz age, hedonistic charm.  Even eighty years later, Bergey’s art looks daring, modern, and cool.  Since more than 90% of original pulp cover artwork is thought to be lost, we were over the moon to come across two fresh-to-the-market original […]

Madonna, The Ramones, Earle Bergey…What do these things have in common?

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Earle K. Bergey, illustration, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2015

“My art, which is my life, is the only language through which I speak with the world.” -Erté Through his work, Erté has become synonymous with timeless decadence and a bold avant garde modernist aesthetic. His creation embody, and for many people define Art Deco. Today, though, most people are familiar with his work only through photographs, fine […]

Erté’s Long Reach

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: art deco, Erté, fashion, jazz age, roaring 20s
Added to Gallery: April 13, 2015

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