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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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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.

This pen and ink drawing with gouache highlights is an early work by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins and a sublime example of his art deco style.

American Industrialism

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, fine art, gouache, industrial age, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

For sale is an original painting by Erle Loran, titled Light Operator. Signed and dated in the lower right corner,with an Oakland, California exhibit label on verso.

Light Operator

Artist: Erle Loran
Price:  $7,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Erle Loran, Exhibited, fine art, industrial age, machine age, mid-century modern
Added to Gallery: May 24, 2018

An alluring and provocatively moody original pastel by Hungarian-born artist Pál Fried, which is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and housed behind glass in a beautiful, ornate gold carved wood frame.

Seduction

Artist: Pal Fried
Price:  $2,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: boudoir, Pal Fried, pastel, Pearls, pin up
Added to Gallery: May 13, 2018

This large and luminous original watercolor painting by the famous Belgian painter Frantz Charlet dates to the turn of the 20th centuty and features a serene pastoral mother and child figural scene. Charlet, a student of the Acadeémie de Bruxelles and l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, known for his portraiture, landscape and genre work. Along with a group of ten colleagues, Charlet founded Les XX in October 1883.

Tranquility

Artist: Frantz Charlet
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1890s, 1900s, beaux arts, belle epoque, Frantz Charlet, french, pastoral
Added to Gallery: May 3, 2018

A dark and mystical exhibited fine art oil painting by the prolific and frequent Golden Age of Illustration pulp artist Harry Fisk.

Nude Contemplation

Artist: Harry Fisk
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: black magic, Exhibited, nude, pulp, Salmagundi Club
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2018

A fine exhibited nude oil painting by Joseph Tomanek, that was exhibited in the 1920s at a Chicago Galleries Association fine art show.

The Studio Couch

Artist: Joseph Tomanek
Price:  $3,850.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, chicago, Exhibited, fine art, Joseph Tomanek, Newcomb-Macklin, nude
Added to Gallery: April 15, 2018

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer "Out of the Darkness" by the well listed Brandywine School female artist Edith Ballinger Price. This ethereal view was painted in 1920 and exhibited in 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts annual. Image features a really inventive and inspired angelic mother enveloping her young children, one of whom is depicted as blind as was the artist's young adopted daughter. Fans of the American Arts & Crafts movement have become attracted to the Brandywine school, as the aesthetic of the artwork complements Bungalow and Prairie School interiors.

Out of the Darkness

Artist: Edith Ballinger Price
Price:  $7,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, angel, Brandywine School, Edith Ballinger Price, Golden Age, spiritual
Added to Gallery: March 9, 2018

The orginal painting takes inspiration from the suffering Burne Hogarth saw growing up in the Depression and is influenced by the WPA regionalist movement.

The Sky Opened Up

Artist: Burne Hogarth
Price:  $8,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Burne Hogarth, regionalist, surreal, Tarzan, World War II, WPA
Added to Gallery: January 24, 2018

Inspired by the work of Harry Clarke, this art deco nude avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins was titled by the artist "The Elements Involved".

The Elements Involved

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, fine art, jazz age, nude, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Dating to the WPA-era, when many American artists turned their attention to the perils of modernity, urbanization, and the consequences of industrialization, this oil on canvas fine art painting takes a surreal and bleak apocalyptic look at a cityscape (likely New York City) being set upon by a serpent and the wolves that act as […]

City In Ruins

Artist: Unknown American Artist
Price:  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Cityscape, fantasy, fine art, Golden Age, new york city, outsider art, science fiction, WPA
Added to Gallery: December 20, 2017

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to offer "They Shall Obtain Mercy," a large and important gouache which served as preparation for one of 11 allegorical murals Savage created for The Elks Veteran Memorial in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The works are still on display at this landmark destination. This deeply moving and symbolic work reflects on the hardships and loss of World War I. This poignant, decorative, important artwork is beautifully matted and framed, and the art has a room-commanding presence.

They Shall Obtain Mercy

Artist: Eugene Savage
Price:  $17,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, art deco, chicago, classical, Elks, Eugene Savage, muralist, study, The Golden Gallery, WPA, WWI
Added to Gallery: December 14, 2017

A modernist abstract mixed media painting by Virgil Finlay, who was an important prolific American pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51. Executed in a colorful and abstract manner with raised translucent areas, oil paint and pen and ink. Smartly framed and ready to hang.

Abstraction #51

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  $1,850.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2017

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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.

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