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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.

Symbol Bearers

Artist: Eugene Savage

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, art deco, chicago, Elks, Eugene Savage, gobig, Golden Age, muralist, WWI
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

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.

The Hippopotamus Parade

Artist: Henry Soulen

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, chicago, Henry Soulen, impressionist, original interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: July 28, 2018

A fine exhibited nude oil painting by Joseph Tomanek, that was exhibited in the 1920s at a Chicago Galleries Association fine art show.

The Studio Couch

Artist: Joseph Tomanek

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, chicago, Exhibited, fine art, Joseph Tomanek, Newcomb-Macklin, nude
Added to Gallery: April 15, 2018

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.

They Shall Obtain Mercy

Artist: Eugene Savage

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, art deco, chicago, classical, Elks, Eugene Savage, muralist, study, The Golden Gallery, WPA, WWI
Added to Gallery: December 14, 2017

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.

Kwan Yen

Artist: Frederic Poole

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, chicago, Frederic Poole, goddess, nude, orientalist, World's Fair
Added to Gallery: August 24, 2017

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.

Spain, 1929

Artist: Paul MacAlister

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, chicago, Erté, industrial age, macabre, nude, Paul MacAlister, spanish
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2017

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.

Armistice

Artist: Eugene Savage

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, american, chicago, Elks, Eugene Savage, gobig, mural, muralist, patriotic, The Golden Gallery, WPA, WWI
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2016

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.

Waving Goodbye

Artist: F. R. Harper

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, American Art Works, art deco, chicago, F. R. Harper, flapper, hudson river, original calendar art, patriotic
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2016

For sale is a lovely tonalist oil on canvas painting by the well regarded Chicago area artist and muralist Otto Hake.

Mandarin Beauty And Butterflies

Artist: Otto Hake

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, asian, chicago, orientalist, Otto Hake, Redwood Forest, Tonalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: March 10, 2015

A classic situational cheesecake pin up mishap unfolds in this original Louis F. Dow calendar painting by the Chicago area artist Charles Showalter titled “High & Dry.” The lovely nude is caught, high, and perhaps now dry after removing her clothes. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently acquired this and several other Louis F. Dow published calendar […]

High and Dry

Artist: Charles Showalter

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, boat, Charles Showalter, cheesecake, chicago, Great American Pin-up, nude, original calendar art, pin up, sundblom shop, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2013

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