Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Illustrator Arthur William Brown’s graphite on paper depiction a chic Parisian street scene populated by American ex-pats was created to accompany a short story by Kenyon Gambier titled The Mad Masquerade in the March 26, 1927 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. Kenyon Gambier was a pen name of U.S. Diplomat Lorin Andrews Lathrop, who […]
Artist: Arthur William Brown
This oil on canvas painting by Reginald Bolles is a classic example of Golden Age illustration and was likely created as cover art for an American glossy magazine in the 1920s. Showcasing a smartly attired flapper girl in a cloche hat closely admiring a cherry tree branch with a birds nest attached that is filled […]
Artist: Reginald Bolles
Antique, Art Deco-era, flapper girl store display statuette mannequin from the 1920s styled after the work of Maurice Milliere.
Artist: After Maurice Milliere
This tantalizingly exotic Art Deco watercolor painting is by photographer, pulp artist, and illustrator Lejaren A. Hiller. With bold colors, exquisite details, and a lavish motif, Hiller has captured the Roaring Twenties’ obsession with opulence and the East by portraying decadently costumed harem girls who are following in line behind a golden crocodile. The whimsical […]
Artist: Lejaren Hiller
As long as there has been sand, secluded coves, calm lakes, vast oceans and hot days, people have taken to the waters for health, exercise, fun, and community. Once just a summer retreat for those who lived close to a shore or the wealthy, mass transportation and motorcars turned a day at the beach into […]
For sale is a Cardwell Higgins original advertising painting of silent film Hollywood stars Dolores del Rio & Don Alvarado in “The Loves of Carmen” (1927).
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
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
Liberty magazine commissioned this painting by Harold Von Schmidt for an excerpt from The Red Napoleon, a 1929 “future history” novel by Floyd Gibbons.
Artist: Harold von Schmidt
A decorative and extreme Art Deco/Machine Age pen and ink advertising drawing by Cardwell Higgins for the 1927 Cadillac Convertible. Work is signed and dated lower right and beautifully framed and matted behind glass; from the estate of Charles Martignette. Higgins was an accomplished draftsman and had a keen eye for design and graphics as seen in this smartly rendered work.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
On offer is a remarkable published pulp cover painting by Lejaren Hiller (American, 1880-1969), titled Absinthe, for Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Magazine – April 21, 1928. Between 1924 and 1939, the artist created hundreds of covers for this long running title, and this is among the most captivating. The image showcases an up-to-the-minute smoking flapper girl feeling strangely […]
Artist: Lejaren Hiller
