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This powerful example of golden age American illustration art playfully explores the tension between past and future presented in the early motor age. In this affecting unsigned image, the cliche of the Western Americana “Westward Ho” expansion scene is reinterpreted through the addition of an up-to-the-minute flapper girl in an adorable cloche hat. Beneath our heroine–who, along with her car, is checked out by a cowboy attired service attendant–text reads “Forms No Hard Carbon.”

Forms No Hard Carbon

Artist: Unknown
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, automobilia, Charles Edward Chambers, Charles Martignette, cowboy, flapper, Golden Age, motor car, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: June 26, 2012

An inventive and unique hand crafted Holiday Seasons Greeting Card from the F. Burtis Clayton Company who we believe were a commercial airbrush art studio. The cover features a streamlined airbrushed painting of a modernist silhouetted cityscape with planes, trains and automobiles ushering in the machine age. Nicely framed, this opens to reveal text and New Year’s wishes as would a more typical holiday card.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Artist: Unknown
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, automobilia, aviation, F. Burtis Clayton Company, holiday, machine age, modernist, new years eve, progress, railroadiana, skyline, streamline
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2011

This nostalgic oil and graphite on illustration board, offers a peek into the early days of automotive touring. Bill Medcalf created this as a final presentation painting for one of Brown & Bigelow’s historically themed 12 month Americana calendars. In their finest Sunday clothes, a family taking a jaunt in their 1908-era Ford Model T find themselves lost on a country road. Bringing many of the classic archetypes of early motoring together, the male driver of the car refuses to look at the map his wife is consulting, while a farmer (who has likely never seen a car before) directs them in exactly the opposite direction than they were headed.

Country Drive

Artist: William Medcalf
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, automobilia, Brown & Bigelow, country, nostalgic, original calendar art, study, William Medcalf
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2011

A rare surviving cover painting for the long running Motor Magazine title which evolved alongside the car industry from the very early years of automobilia through the machine age of progress and invention. Robinson executed these light-hearted Americana views for this Hearst title from the 1920s through the 1950s, this work appeared as the cover for the September 1930 issue. Here, a hard working garage hand is shown using a different sort of elbow grease to pry loose a coin from a tightwad couple by explaining the workings of “Ellbo – A Super Automotive Polish”.

A Little Elbow Grease

Artist: Robert Robinson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, automobilia, magazine cover, motor car, original cover art, Robert Robinson
Added to Gallery: November 24, 2010

This original gouache noir illustration by well listed and prolific illustrator Mort Kunstler was used as the January 1968 edition of Male, illustrating Mario Cleri’s “Blonde Bandit in Black Lace.” An explosive sex kitten car chase that captures the prevailing nihilism associated with the 1960’s “sweat magazine” art and envelope-pushing adventure fiction, this is a tense and hyper-realistic pop-art time capsule.

Blonde Bandit in Black Lace

Artist: Mort Künstler
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, automobilia, blonde, magazine cover, Male, Mort Künstler, original cover art, pin up, pulp, the sweats
Added to Gallery: April 2, 2008

A Norman Rockwell-esque picturesque scene featuring a couple out for “a Sunday Drive” in the early 20th century. They are taking in the sights and showing off their 1908 Buick, in this 1940s produced Robert Berran idealized rendering of a bygone-era of rural Americana.

A Sunday Drive

Artist: Robert Berran
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, automobilia, Edwardian, motor car, Robert Berran
Added to Gallery: January 26, 2006

A large dramatic oil on canvas would appear to be an illustration for use as a cigarette advertisement . Signed lower right “Pritchard 27 . A large evocotive and decidedly art deco creation which is mysterious in many ways and proved difficult in researching .

Art Deco Cigarette Advertising Illustration

Artist: Pritchard
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, cigarettes, motor car, Pritchard
Added to Gallery: November 25, 2002

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