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.
Artist: Charles Winter
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.
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.
Artist: Henry Clive
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.
Artist: Charles Winter
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
This 1940s painting by Alfred Statler features a bustling rush-hour NYC Subway commute envisioned almost as modern dance.
Artist: Alfred Statler
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 […]
Artist: Jack Levitz
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
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
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 […]
Artist: Roff Of Paris
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
