Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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A large and monumental allegorical oil on canvas by Charles Allan Winter featuring a dying Roman warrior being attended to by a firey haired maiden. Work is signed by the artist "Chas. Winter 1896 Paris" lower right, an early offering from this highly regarded vanguard artist. This was presumably created while Winter was studying at the Julianne Academie of Paris, this has a wonderful Pre-Raphaelite dramatic and impacting style. The grand scale of the painting adds to its evocative epic charm.

A Roman Tragedy

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  $14,500.00

A large fashion original illustration by Charles Gates Sheldon which served as an interior fashion plate for the September 1921 issue of The Woman's Home Companion. This lovely model is adorned in the latest and stylish current evening wear a gown by Henri Bendel the title is "Very Wearable - Don't You Think?". This large pen & ink and wash is executed in a fine en grisaille style for interior black and white print reproduction. A stylish example by this illustrator who of course also worked as a cover artist for Photoplay magazine and the other early Hollywood Silent Movie era titles.

Very Wearable

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  $1,950.00

A large original pen & ink illustration by the important Belle Epoque era poster and book illustrator Louis Rhead. This likely was done for Harper's or Century Magazine. A great large rendering in the Art Nouveau manner and a rare surviving original illustration work by the great New York based prolific and gifted illustrator and artist.

Art Nouveau Maiden in February

Artist: Louis Rhead
Price:  SOLD

A pair of interior illustrations in pen & ink by Louis Rhead, from the 1924 edition of Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge. The drawings are on 2 separate sheets of watercolor paper which were mounted on one illustration board by Rhead. Works are nicely matted and framed in a period dark oak quarter sawn mission oak frame.

Pair from Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates

Artist: Louis Rhead
Price:  $950.00

A bewitching and highly detailed pen and ink rendering by Louis Rhead used in the 1915 book publication of Lorna Doone. Caption Reads " Lorna and John Ridd before Sir Ensor Doone.... Fools you are be fools forever, said Sir Ensor Doone, at last." Beautifully matted and framed in an antique period fine wood gilt lined frame.

Lorna & John Ridd Before Sir Ensor Doone

Artist: Louis Rhead
Price:  $950.00

An original interior art nouveau glamour creation by noted illustrator, Charles Sheldon. This image was commissioned for use as a fashion plate for the prestigious Woman's Home Companion. Artwork is beautifully framed, shows some minor soiling and has one small area of paper loss on lower left in black charcoal strokes, an easy repair.

Edwardian Fashion Queen

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  SOLD

A sophisticated, topical Orson Lowell pen & ink drawing featuring a Japanese soldier bowing before a mythically inspired goddess of death (named by Lowell Mortise, a play on the latin word for death) with the caption So Sorry - have made mistake. The age of this piece, which dates to the first years of the 20th century, makes this by all accounts a commentary on the massive casualties ensued during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, a war Japan won, but at a human price much too high.

The Spoils of War

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price:  $1,950.00

An original pen and ink drawing from Nell Brinkley one of the premier female figures of the "Golden Age of American Illustration" that appeared originally in the William Randolph Hearst publication New York Journal-American newspaper during the 1920s or 1930s.

Three Stages of Life

Artist: Nell Brinkley
Price:  $1,800.00

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:  $15,000.00

 

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