Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Enchantment: an original oil on canvas by Edward Eggleston Enchantment is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works Calendar Company in the early 1930s. The subject of this playful scene is a nude water nymph bending over to kiss a little frog (sure to soon become […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: $35,000.00
Edward Eggleston's Evening Star Evening Star is a large and important painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company in 1929. The image shows a towering seated contemplative Indian Princess captured in a Maxfield Parrish-like surrealist and pleasing yet electric color scheme. In 1931, Maxfield Parrish famously declared "I […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: $35,000.00
Peter Driben vintage and original pin up painting created as cover for Wink Magazine. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
Maxfield Parrish's drawing for his children provides a peek into the imagination of the artist who Norman Rockwell called "my idol".
Artist: Maxfield Parrish
Price: $6,500.00
A wonderful and rare surviving cover painting by the American artist Charles Martin (1848 - 1934), who was an active illustrator and editorial cartoonist on the East Coast in the early 20th century. This mixed medium illustration appeared as the cover of the July, 1923 issue of Theatre magazine. A prima ballerina and devilish pierrot are seen in […]
Artist: Charles Martin
Price: $3,850.00
An exceedingly scarce original mixed media work by L. Goddard used as a published calendar by The American Art Works Calendar Company, Coshocton Ohio in 1931 as Song of the Nile. "L. Goddard" was the pseudonym for a pair of enterprising artists L.G. Woolfenden, a successful Detroit area commercial photographer, and Rudolphe/ Rudolph Ingerle a Vienna born fine art landscape artist who lived and exhibited at museums and galleries in Chicago after the turn of the last century. Their collaborative efforts resulted in some of the finest and most spectacular images in the Calendar Art genre. The pair was known for fantasy-laden Depression-era escapist themes: Indian Maidens, Gypsies, Salomes, Art Deco Egyptian Beauties and Grecian Goddesses posed in vivid and evocotive Maxfield Parrish -esque dreamscapes.
Artist: L. Goddard
Price: SOLD
With irreverent humor, this original oil-on-board painting shows a horned satyr smoking a pipe distracted from his reading by a nude figure in the foreground. Dating to 1929-1930, when Ovid's Ars amatoria was in the news quite a bit, with the city of San Francisco's ban of the Ars amatoria in 1929 and its legalization for […]
Artist: Gaspano "Gus" Ricca
Price: SOLD
This dramatic, futuristic sci-fi interior pulp illustration was created by Harold McCauley for an as-of-yet unidentified Ziff-Davis title.
Artist: Harold McCauley
Price: $2,950.00
Dating to the WPA-era, when many American artists turned their attention to the perils of modernity, urbanization, and the consequences of industrialization, this oil on canvas fine art painting takes a surreal and bleak apocalyptic look at a cityscape (likely New York City) being set upon by a serpent and the wolves that act as […]
Artist: Unknown American Artist
Price: $3,500.00
A whimsical and highly stylized 1926 original illustration by Brooklyn New York artist Clarence "Polly" Hill. An 18th Century Style French corseted Courtesan and her attendant. This work was seemingly originally intended for a perfume or toiletry commission. Similar in style to Brunellesci, George Lepape, Eduardo Benito, George Plank and Erte whose work appeared in such periodicals as Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines.
Artist: Clarence Polly Hill
Price: $2,350.00
