• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Recent Additions
  • The Gallery
    • About
    • Browse by Topic
    • eBay
    • Sorry, It’s Sold
  • Guarantee & Policies
    • Guarantee
    • Shipping & Payment
    • Amazon.com Shipping Information
    • eBay Buyer Protection
  • Contact & Social Media
    • E-mail & Phone
    • eBay
    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

  • Gallery Blog
  • Golden Gallery
  • Fine & Decorative
  • Illustration & Advertising
  • Paperback & Pulp
  • Pin-Up & Glamour

automobilia

Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.

Smooth

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  $10,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, Calendar, Earl Moran, flapper, Golden Age, petroliana, pin up, Richlube Oil, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 4, 2018

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.

The 1927 Cadillac Convertible

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, art deco, automobilia, Cadillac, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, industrial age, jazz age, machine age
Added to Gallery: August 9, 2018

A sleepy NYC cityscape scene is captured with oils on canvas-board in a dark color palette in this work by Alfred Statler dating to 1946.

New York Cityscape At Night

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alfred Statler, automobilia, Cityscape, regionalist, Time Magazine, Urban, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2017

An early and exceptional painting by New York artist and illustrator Malcolm Strauss who specialized in motor genre works creating Automobile Club posters.

Edwardian Beauty of The Motor Age

Artist: Malcolm Strauss
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1900s, advertising, american, automobilia, Edwardian, illustration, Malcolm Strauss, motor car, new york city, poster design
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2017

A large idyllic Americana “Happier Days” depiction by the prolific calendar artist and pin-up illustrator T.N. Thompson. This nostalgic 1950s image is titled Cleaning Compounds and is suffused with the warmth of that era. a well rendered, romantic depiction of unknown usage with a drag racing American Graffiti-esque appeal and a Norman Rockwell influenced take on life’s small joys. Nicely framed in original limed oak frame with brass label insert.

Cleaning Compounds

Artist: T. N. Thompson
Price:  $1,850.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, automobilia, nostalgic, original illustration art, romantic, T. N. Thompson
Added to Gallery: February 6, 2017

  This original oil on canvas painting, used as the cover for the January 1955 pulp digest,  Imagination – Stories Of Science And Fantasy, offers a whimsical mid-century futuristic look at the then far-off year of 1990. The 1950s were abundant with delightfully optimistic and utopian visions of what future life would look like – works like […]

Traffic Mishap, 1990

Artist: Harold McCauley
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, automobilia, Futuristic, Greenleaf Publishing, Harold McCauley, pin up, pulp, sci-fi, science fiction, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 28, 2015

    From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Expressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, […]

Cityscape of Cars

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alfred Statler, american, American Impressionist, automobilia, industrial age, machine age, new york city, regionalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: April 4, 2014

A kinetic, pop culture, post-war pulp painting by Mort Kunstler painted in 1964 and published as a cover in March of 1967 “For Men Only”. A fear mongering and chaotic depiction loosely illustrating the story “Belly Dancer Raid to Spring Russia’s Top Rocket Man.” Painting is very nicely framed and ready to hang.

Russia’s Top Rocket Man

Artist: Mort Künstler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, automobilia, cold war, For Men Only, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, motor car, original cover art, pulp, russian, the sweats
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2014

    A large classic Americana c. 1950 oil painting on canvas created for Atlantic Petroleum by Hayden Hayden. This was likely created as a billboard advertising design. In this all-American apple pie depiction, a clean cut high school football star has attracted the interest of a pretty co-ed after being “Fixed Up For The […]

Fixed Up For Fall

Artist: Hayden Hayden
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, american, Atlantic Petroleum, automobilia, autumn, football, Golden Age, Hayden Hayden, original illustration art, petroliana, sundblom shop
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2013

This oil on canvas is a fabulous and fresh to the market cover painting by the prolific American artist E.M. Jackson created for the November, 1930 issue of The Ladies Home Journal. A smartly posed flapper and rich autumn color palette mark this impressive depiction of a homecoming scene that captures the jazz age freedom of the college set.

The College Homecoming

Artist: E. M. Jackson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, automobilia, autumn, E. M. Jackson, flapper, jazz age, Ladies Home Journal, magazine cover, original cover art
Added to Gallery: February 14, 2013

Next Page »
 

Contact Grapefruit Moon Gallery



    Primary Sidebar

    Join our mailing list

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery Around the Web

    Facebook
    Instagram
    Pinterest
    Twitter

    Recent Additions

    Gone With the Wind

    Pigeon Feathers

    Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car

    Footer

    About Grapefruit Moon Gallery

    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.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

    Interested buyers may view pieces by appointment and we are happy to answer any questions you may have. [Contact Us]

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery on eBay

     

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery on Instagram

    View on Instagram

    Copyright © 2023