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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 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

Elevated Train Bridge In NYC

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  $2,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Andy Warhol, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Time Magazine, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 8, 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
Price:  $2,500.00

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

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
Price:  $1,400.00

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

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 […]

Allegorical Hunters & Gatherers Diptych

Artist: Mary Amanda Lewis
Price:  $2,200.00

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

This big eye brunette seen standing in front of an urban window is signed by the artist "Roff of Paris" and dates to 1961. It offers a compelling view of a stylish albeit blue lady who towers above the quiet streets of France. This is from the era of the Big Eye girl paintings by […]

Big Eye Girl In Paris

Artist: Roff Of Paris
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
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
Price:  $17,500.00

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

Original Victorian artwork by Arthur John Elsley. An early offering from the artist who would become famous for his idyllic genre scenes.

Maiden with Lamb

Artist: Arthur John Elsley
Price:  $7,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1880s, Arthur John Elsley, Edwardian, illustration, lamb, victorian
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2018

This large original arwork by James Montgomery Flagg, attests to the friendship between peers during the Golden Age of Illustration.

Ham Fisher And Three Nudes

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price:  $35,000.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, erotic, fine art, Golden Age, Ham Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Joe Palooka, lurid, nude, pin up, pirate, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 6, 2018

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.

The Industry Of War

Artist: Vladimir Yoffe
Price:  $1,350.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: industrial age, Russian Artist, Vladimir Yoffe, WPA, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 6, 2018

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.

Forging Ahead

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, gay interest, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, WPA
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2018

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 […]

The Night Cathedral

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  $2,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Andy Warhol, modernist, new york city, regionalist, Subway Cars, Urbanism, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2018

A large and monumental allegorical oil on canvas by Charles Allan Winter featuring a dying Roman warrior being attended to by a firey haired maiden. Work is signed by the artist "Chas. Winter 1896 Paris" lower right, an early offering from this highly regarded vanguard artist. This was presumably created while Winter was studying at the Julianne Academie of Paris, this has a wonderful Pre-Raphaelite dramatic and impacting style. The grand scale of the painting adds to its evocative epic charm.

A Roman Tragedy

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  $14,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1890s, allegorical, american, art nouveau, arts & crafts, Charles Winter, classical, maiden, pre-raphaelite
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2018

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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