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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 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

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:  $1,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: black magic, Exhibited, nude, pulp, Salmagundi Club
Added to Gallery: April 21, 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:  $6,500.00

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:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Burne Hogarth, regionalist, surreal, Tarzan, World War II, WPA
Added to Gallery: January 24, 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:  $2,500.00

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

A pierrot and pierrette are shown in a whimsical ice dance in this commanding large exhibited fine art oil painting on canvas by the noted American illustrator John Drew.

Skating

Artist: John Drew
Price:  $7,000.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Architectural league of New York, art deco, Exhibited, ice skating, John Drew, pierrot, pulp
Added to Gallery: October 27, 2017

Willy Müller-Gera (1887-1981) was a German artist and illustrator whose work is visible in museums across Europe. Müller-Gera is known for his etchings and landscapes of the pastoral German countryside as well as apocalyptic renderings such as this work. Titled Faun this is an unusual finely detailed artwork in a modernist, art deco, avant-garde aesthetic. Nicely framed in a period art deco antique frame and ready to enjoy.

Faun

Artist: Willy Müller-Gera
Price:  $1,800.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, avant-garde, faun, german, modernist, nymph, seduction, victorian, Willy Müller-Gera
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2017

A large, inventive, and whimsical oil painting featuring a nude goddess disguised within a snow covered mountain landscape. Signed by the well-listed artist Sigurd Skou, verso is titled “Hills in Norway.” Skou was born in Norway and studied with Anders Zorn in Stockholm and Paris. Throughout his career he traveled extensively and truly lived the artist’s life staying active in bohemian circles in New York, France and Chicago.

Hills in Norway

Artist: Sigurd Skou
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, american, art deco, fantasy, landscap, norway, nude, Sigurd Skou
Added to Gallery: June 8, 2017

A lyrical American impressionist oil painting by Charles Allan Winter, one of our favorite 20th century fine artists and illustrators. This is a large and important work with two demure Art Nouveau maidens in a lush and colorful stylized fantasy landscape. Verso retains original exhibition card and title of “Music”. Housed in a wide profile hand carved Paul Carter Goodnow American Arts & Crafts frame, a defining example from the Charles Martignette collection.

Music

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  $10,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art nouveau, arts & crafts, Charles Martignette, Charles Winter, fantasy, flapper, impressionist, landscape, maiden, plein-air, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 8, 2017

What is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him? asks this inspirational and spiritual large male nude oil painting by the well-listed New Rochelle based illustrator and artist Walter Beach Humphrey. This new to the market, prize-winning ‘Rock of Ages’ scene was owned for many years by the artist’s daughter, Constance June Humphrey. As a young child in the late 1920s, Constance was a favored model of her father’s friend Norman Rockwell. Humphrey and Rockwell shared a New Rochelle hayloft when they were both starting out. The exceptional provenance and history of the painting evoke the spirit of when it was painted and the special talents and life of the painter.

What Is Man?

Artist: Walter Beach Humphrey
Price:  $4,000.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, gay interest, male nude, New Rochelle, nude, religious, spiritual, The Saturday Evening Post, Walter Beach Humphrey
Added to Gallery: December 2, 2016

An epic and poignant large allegorical preparatory painting by Eugene Savage for the mural titled Armistice, which was created for and still resides in the front reception room at The Elks Veteran Memorial in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Armistice

Artist: Eugene Savage
Price:  $13,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, chicago, Elks, Eugene Savage, gobig, mural, muralist, patriotic, The Golden Gallery, WPA, WWI
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2016

An inventive example of modern abstract art by the prolific pulp artist Virgil Finlay, signed and dated 1966 and titled on verso “Gambling Man”. Notations found on the back of the painting in Virgil Finlay’s handwriting read “The buttons of the jailer,”January 6, 1966, on reading Brian Moore re Caffey.)

Gambling Man

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  $1,050.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2016

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