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[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Portrait Of Norma Shearer by Charles Sheldon” amount=”2500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This stylized, fashionable pastel portrait of Hollywood film legend Norma Shearer by the prolific American illustrator Charles Sheldon shows off the sophistication the actress became known for in her pre-code appearances in films like The Divorcee. Sheldon was a leading illustrator of 1920s […]

Portrait Of Norma Shearer

Artist: Charles Sheldon

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Charles Martignette, Charles Sheldon, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, Norma Shearer, original illustration art, pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2018

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

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

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Dancer And Pierrot by Charles Martin” amount=”3000.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”]   A wonderful and rare surviving cover painting by the American artist Charles Martin (1848 – 1934), who was an active illustrator and editorial cartoonist on the East Coast in the early 20th century. This mixed medium illustration appeared as the cover […]

Dancer And Pierrot

Artist: Charles Martin

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, fantasy, Golden Age, illustration, magazine cover, Modernist dance, original cover art, original illustration art, pierrot, Theater Magazine
Added to Gallery: May 14, 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

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

This oriinal painting by the Russian-American illustrator Bernard Gussow appeared as the cover of Theatre Magazine – The Magazine For Playgoers.

The Children’s Theater

Artist: Bernard Gussow

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, Bernard Gussow, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, russian, Theater Magazine
Added to Gallery: April 22, 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

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

This was the original camera ready artwork used in the production of the 1970 Avon paperback edition of the novel The Favorite Game by Leonard Cohen.

The Favorite Game

Artist: Milton Charles

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Avon Books, Color Photograph, Leonard Cohen, paperback, The Favorite Game
Added to Gallery: April 11, 2018

This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.

Naked Sinner

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: Bart Frame, Bedside Book, erotic, Greenleaf Publishing, Naked Sinner, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: April 11, 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

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

This gouache on illustration board painting was created in 1927 by John Vassos, a singularly unique inventor, industrial designer and artist and illustrator, and appeared in the E.P. Dutton & Company edition of Salome.

Salome

Artist: John Vassos

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: Alla Nazimova, art deco, erotic, John Vassos, macabre, Natacha Rambova, nude, Oscar Wilde, Salome, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 25, 2018

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