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Liberty

Liberty magazine commissioned this painting by Harold Von Schmidt for an excerpt from The Red Napoleon, a 1929 “future history” novel by Floyd Gibbons.

The Red Napoleon

Artist: Harold von Schmidt

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Golden Age, Harold von Schmidt, Liberty, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Russia, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2018

A stylish and decidedly art deco cover illustration for the September 9th, 1939 issue of Liberty magazine, painted by the prolific illustrator Victor Tchetchet. Depicting a Carole Lombard-esque blonde bombshell in a Diana the Huntress mythological pose. Dedicated and inscribed to the fabled Hollywood film producer Otto Preminger, as seen lower right. Painting has been handsomely […]

Diana The Huntress

Artist: Victor Tchetchet

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque, Victor Tchetchet
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

This breezy sailor girl, bathing beauty pin-up graced the cover of the July 24, 1937 edition of Liberty magazine, a popular long running Bernarr MacFadden publication. By the artist R.C. Kauffmann–a personal favorite of the gallery–this is a tremendously spirited, large format oil painting with spectacular zest and allure. Kauffmann is best remembered for his Saturday Evening Post covers as […]

A Sailing Mate

Artist: R.C. Kauffmann

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, bathing beauty, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, R. C. Kauffmann, Robert Kauffmann
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This patriotic, morale boosting, WWII-era red, white and blue cover gouache illustration painting was the cover for the May, 2, 1942 edition of Liberty Magazine. The image depicts a curvy pin-up girl christening a ship as the nattily attired distinguished guests of the ceremony struggle to keep their eyes on the matter at hand. In a humorous nod […]

Christening The Ship

Artist: Stephen Ronay

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Golden Age, Liberty, magazine cover, original illustration art, patriotic, pin up, Stephen Ronay, WWII
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

      This deftly painted cover illustration by Leslie Thrasher was created for the June 7th, 1930 edition of Liberty Magazine, and showcases the artist’s finely tuned ability to capture the spirit of the time in which he worked. The image shows two ruddy children in a game of dress-up, as a pair of blind and […]

I Am Blind

Artist: Leslie Thrasher

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Great Depression, Leslie Thrasher, Liberty, Saturday Evening Post Illustrator, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 22, 2015

Created to accompany the 13th installment of the serialized novel” Silver Knees” in the April 4th 1931 issue of Liberty Magazine, this oil on canvas painting features a romanticized depiction of love during the Mexican-American war. In this lush scene, Gitana, a gypsy dancer, enjoys an afternoon serenade as her star crossed lover, an American war hero, looks on quietly.

Silver Knees

Artist: Norman Price

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Golden Age, gypsy, jazz age, Liberty, mexican, Norman Price, original interior illustration, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 22, 2012

A New Year’s themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of Liberty Magazine. The painting finds the serialized couple “Sandy and Lil” renewing their wedding vows in the midst of the Great Depression with a cherubic baby New Year with quill pen acting as the notary clerk. Image follows the tradition of January New Years Babies covers painted by Norman Rockwell and J. C. Lyendecker in The Saturday Evening Post.

New Years Baby, 1932

Artist: Leslie Thrasher

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, flapper, Great Depression, Leslie Thrasher, Liberty, magazine cover, New Years Baby, original cover art, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2009

A humorous moment in the midst of the Great Depression is the subject of this Liberty Magazine (November 21, 1931) original cover painting by Leslie Thrasher. Titled “Second From The Right” the cover chronicles the continuing story of “Sandy and Lil”, who frequented the cover of Liberty magazine in scenes from their typically 1920s courtship, wedding and early married life. This artwork (as explained in short interior story) finds the couple’a finances wiped out in the recent stock market crash. A neighbor (a rich lawless bootlegger!) turns up with a pair of complimentary tickets to The Follies and Sandy finds a particular showgirl much to his liking “second to the right.”

Second From The Right

Artist: Leslie Thrasher

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, flapper, Great Depression, Leslie Thrasher, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art
Added to Gallery: December 16, 2008

A rare surviving original oil painting by Leslie Thrasher which was created as cover art the June 18, 1927 issue of Liberty Magazine. A Westward expanionist-themed view of California real estate speculation and planned communities, featuring a handsome modernist jazz age couple imagining their new life at the intersection of Buena Vista Boulevard & Broadway. Hope, determination and an underlying tension are created with the surprising color palette and the placement of the central figures against a surround that lies purely in the speculative imagination.

Buena Vista Boulevard & Broadway

Artist: Leslie Thrasher

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, california, jazz age, Leslie Thrasher, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art
Added to Gallery: February 18, 2008

 

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