A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,250.00
Fine & Decorative Art
Along with developments in lithography that led many leading talents of the day into careers as illustrators, the 20th century saw innovations in photography, printmaking, and design that revolutionized fine, public, and decorative art. Below, you will see showcased original artworks from the Art Nouveau, American Arts & Crafts, Art Deco, WPA-era and beyond.
A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
A disjointed surrealist elevated train on a platform is captured with oils on board in a dark color palette in this original painting by Alfred Statler
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: $2,500.00
This 1940s painting by Alfred Statler features a bustling rush-hour NYC Subway commute envisioned almost as modern dance.
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: $2,500.00
A Portrait in Abstraction by Lester Molleson This is a colorful and modernist oil on canvas painting by Lester Molleson, a Milwaukee based artist. Titled “Madam”, this abstract portrait features a glamorous woman in a cleavage-baring dress draped in a fur stole and accessorized with a feathered hat. Grapefruit Moon Gallery acquired an interesting collection […]
Artist: Lester Molleson
Price: $1,400.00
From early 20th-century landscape and still-life painter Mary Amanda Lewis comes two beautifully rendered oil on board paintings depicting the early life of hunters and gatherers. Presented in a diptych, one frame shows four men quietly stalking through the forest with bows and arrows while seeking out their prey. The other displays a group of […]
Artist: Mary Amanda Lewis
Price: $2,200.00
Eugene Savage created this as a preliminary study for the epic murals that grace the Grand Reception Hall of the Elks Veterans Memorial in Chicago, IL.
Artist: Eugene Savage
Price: $13,125.00
Original Victorian artwork by Arthur John Elsley. An early offering from the artist who would become famous for his idyllic genre scenes.
Artist: Arthur John Elsley
Price: $7,500.00
The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe interrogates the tension between war and peace, past and future in this abstractly inspired gouache artwork dating to the end of World War II.
Artist: Vladimir Yoffe
Price: $1,350.00
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.
Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price: $4,125.00
In this haunting, surreal oil on canvas painting, a train platform rises above assembled automobiles that are parked below a bridge in this transportation minded urban cityscape. At the top, a seemingly living cathedral rises into the night. Captured with oils on canvas in a dark haunting color palette, the dramatic impasto technique is impressive and everything […]
Artist: Alfred Statler
Price: $2,500.00
