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
Price: $17,500.00
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A defining and haunting American Impressionist oilon board by Henry James Soulen. This painting was created for use as an interior illustration in the February 15, 1919 issue of the Saturday Evening Post(included in sale). Known for his Orientalist exotic aesthetic, Soulen was an early student of Howard Pyle. With Soulen's signature heavy expressive brush strokes and impasto technique, this work was exhibited in 1983 at the Delaware Art Museum.
Artist: Henry Soulen
Price: $7,500.00
A fine exhibited nude oil painting by Joseph Tomanek, that was exhibited in the 1920s at a Chicago Galleries Association fine art show.
Artist: Joseph Tomanek
Price: $3,850.00
Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to offer "They Shall Obtain Mercy," a large and important gouache which served as preparation for one of 11 allegorical murals Savage created for The Elks Veteran Memorial in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The works are still on display at this landmark destination. This deeply moving and symbolic work reflects on the hardships and loss of World War I. This poignant, decorative, important artwork is beautifully matted and framed, and the art has a room-commanding presence.
Artist: Eugene Savage
Price: $25,000.00
A remarkable large scale exhibited fine art painting by Frederic Victor Poole titled "Kwan Yen," this was exhibited at the 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair.
Artist: Frederic Poole
Price: $13,500.00
An original Calendar published luminous oil on canvas by noted and prolific pin-up illustrator Art Frahm used in 1956 by "The Goes Litho. Company" of Chicago Illinois. This large and pristine pin-up painting displays to fine effect Art Frahm's softer and less rough around the edges sensibilities and provides a good-girl art glamour counterpart to his infamous series of "panties dropped" pin-up paintings that have recently sold from the Charles Martignette estate and found buyers at between $20,000 - $25,000.00 per work at auction.
Artist: Art Frahm
Price: $6,850.00
An inventive early offering by the noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, who went on to be an interior designer especially noted for his mass-produced "Plan-a-Room" kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. This is a very well executed work it is done in the style of Erte essentially and features an art deco nude goddess of the darkness cowering under the bright sunshine radiating from the corner of the canvas - superimposed with a pipe smoking skeleton in a trompe l'oeil "trick of the eye" manner.
Artist: Paul MacAlister
Price: SOLD
An epic and poignant large allegorical preparatory painting by Eugene Savage for the mural titled Armistice, which was created for and still resides in the front reception room at The Elks Veteran Memorial in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. At the opening reception in 1926, Arthur Correy the then president of the National Society of Mural Painters called these works the most important event in American mural painting, Savage was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor in 1929 by the Architectural League of New York.
Artist: Eugene Savage
Price: $17,500.00
This circa 1925 oil on canvas by F.R. Harper was used as calendar art by The American Art Works Calendar Company. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: F. R. Harper
Price: $6,500.00
For sale is a lovely tonalist oil on canvas painting by the well regarded Chicago area artist and muralist Otto Hake.
Artist: Otto Hake
Price: $5,500.00
