Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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.
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
This is a 1930s signed, Art Deco watercolor painting on illustration board by the listed artist George Le Duc. It depicts a fashionable stylized woman with grapes on her way to the bacchanal. The painting has been silk matted and handsomely framed under glass and is ready to enjoy.
Artist: Georges Le Duc
Price: $950.00
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
Price: $1,950.00
Antique, Art Deco-era, flapper girl store display statuette mannequin from the 1920s styled after the work of Maurice Milliere.
Artist: After Maurice Milliere
Price: $1,950.00
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: $17,500.00
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
This large original arwork by James Montgomery Flagg, attests to the friendship between peers during the Golden Age of Illustration.
Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price: $35,000.00
Maxfield Parrish's drawing for his children provides a peek into the imagination of the artist who Norman Rockwell called "my idol".
Artist: Maxfield Parrish
Price: $6,500.00
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
On offer is a spectacularly erotic French pre-pin up portrait of a Victorian redheaded maiden in very low cut gown by Henri Rondel. The artist was known for his sumptuous portraiture that juxtaposed the refined faces of French beauties with states of shocking undress. This example was acquired by the Osborne Art Company […]
Artist: Henri Rondel
Price: $3,500.00
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: $5,500.00
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
