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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.

An allegorical scene that appears to blend the biblical with the modern, this beautiful and emotional oil on canvas is by illustrator Charles Allan Winter.

War And Peace

Artist: Charles Winter

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: allegorical, arts & crafts, Charles Winter, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Fra Magazine, Roycroft
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to be able to offer “Ye Chiseler – Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum”, a large, commanding, seductive and masterful mural created by Henry Clive, to our eyes the finest illustrator working in jazz age Hollywood. Along with its companion work “The Infidel” (also available through Grapefruit Moon Gallery), Clive created this masterwork for the tavern of The Masquers Club, a historic and fascinating Hollywood institution.

Ye Chiseler

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, escapism, harem, Henry Clive, hollywood, Masquers Club, mural, nude, orientalist, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 18, 2021

A hauntingly beautiful dated 1919 oil on canvas painting by the American artist and illustrator Charles Allan Winter. A nude Art Nouveau maiden with a purple iris posed in front of mosaic work in a style and aesthetic that recalls Alphonse Mucha. Painting is framed in a completely hand crafted gesso batwing frame that was created specifically to house this jewel of a painting.

Art Nouveau Nude With Purple Iris

Artist: Charles Winter

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, Charles Winter, erotic, flowers, Golden Age, iris, Mucha, nude, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 17, 2021

This pen, ink, and gouache artwork is an early example by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins. A sublime offering in his art deco style, this shows a cityscape at night, with anonymous windows lit up throughout, menaced by a red bolt of lightning, suggesting the tremendous electric power humanity was trying to harness from nature in the early 20th century. 

The Furious Sky

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Great Depression
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2021

This 1940s painting by Alfred Statler features a bustling rush-hour NYC Subway commute envisioned almost as modern dance.

Rush Hour NYC Subway Commute

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Subway, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

A Courtroom Circus by Jack Levitz Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges is a large, colorful, and well-executed 1930s Art Deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This […]

Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges

Artist: Jack Levitz

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, burlesque, circus, Jack Levitz, oil painting, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

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 […]

Madam – An Abstract Portrait

Artist: Lester Molleson

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, abstract, Lester Molleson, oil painting
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2020

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Allegorical Hunters & Gatherers Diptych

Artist: Mary Amanda Lewis

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, art deco, diptych, Mary Amanda Lewis, oil painting
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2019

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Big Eye Girl In Paris

Artist: Roff Of Paris

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, Big Eye, fine art, Margaret Keane, modernism, modernist, paris
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

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.

Symbol Bearers

Artist: Eugene Savage

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, art deco, chicago, Elks, Eugene Savage, gobig, Golden Age, muralist, WWI
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

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