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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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An original painting by Fred Rodewald which appeared as the cover of the December, 1949 edition of the digest pulp fiction title Exotic Novel Magazine.

Buy My Love

Artist: Fred Rodewald
Price: $4,500.00  $3,500.00

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, erotic, Fred Rodewald, glamour, Golden Age, lurid, original cover art, Peggy Gaddis, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2020

    This is an exciting, fresh-to-the-market paperback book cover illustration by Al Schmidt for the 1952 Cardinal Complete Book Edition of The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman. The text slug on the paperback reads, “Five men and one woman gazed upward at Weissturm – The White Tower – hypnotized by the beckoning shadows […]

The White Tower

Artist: Al Schmidt
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2019

This is an original men’s magazine interior illustration of unknown usage, dating to the 1950s to 60s. The scene shows a dramatic alley fight, with one man falling to the ground, flashlight tumbling, after the other got the jump on him.  A grisaille gouache on illustration board, this painting is very nicely framed and matted […]

Alley Fight

Artist: American Artist
Price:  $950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: en grisaille, lurid, Men's Magazine art, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, Urban
Added to Gallery: May 19, 2019

A fresh to the market oil painting on canvas by an American artist that was created as cover art for the  January, 1949 issue of 10 Story Western. A lurid Wild West pulp title that premiered in 1936 published by Popular Publications. A rugged nattily attired cowboy on the run, lights a match at the […]

Hanged Wrong

Artist: American Artist
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cowboy, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: May 2, 2019

A fresh to the market oil painting on canvas by noted artist & illustrator Sam Cherry, this artwork was created for use as the cover of the January, 1947 issue of New Western Magazine. A lurid Wild West pulp spectacle of a rugged cowboy holding a hapless hostage in a chokehold with his handcuffs as […]

New Western Cowboy Pulp Cover

Artist: Sam Cherry
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cowboy, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, portrait, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: May 2, 2019

This lurid and bold gouache illustration painting by Fred Rodewald was created as cover art for the January, 1949 edition of Ecstasy Novel Magazine, which printed in full the novella length story “Paula Has A Price!” by pulp author Peggy Gaddis (writing under the pseudonym Perry Lindsay). Included with the painting is a published high grade edition of […]

Paula Has A Price!

Artist: Fred Rodewald
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Ecstasy Novel, erotic, Fred Rodewald, Golden Age, hooker, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, Peggy Gaddis, pin up, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

Promising a gritty look at life for the growing number of Americans who were moving to mobile homes throughout the 1950s, the 1960 Beacon Books title Trailer Camp Woman by Doug Duperrault is a prime example of the kind of fine line between truth and tittilation sleaze that pulp paperback publishers monetized in during the post-war era. […]

Trailer Camp Woman

Artist: American Artist
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, lurid, original cover art, pulp, risque, sleaze, smut
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

Gene Szafran created this psychedelic painting for the cover of Hermaphrodeity – An Autobiography Of A Poet, by Alan Friedman.

Hermaphrodeity

Artist: Gene Szafran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Gene Szafran, Hermaphrodite, lurid, nude, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2018

Alexander Sharpe Ross original artwork, a Redbook Magazine illustration for an installment in their serialized publication of Blackboard Jungle.

Blackboard Jungle

Artist: Alex Ross
Price:  $2,850.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Alex Ross, Blackboard Jungle, Golden Age, lurid, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Redbook Magazine
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2018

This large original arwork by James Montgomery Flagg, attests to the friendship between peers during the Golden Age of Illustration.

Ham Fisher And Three Nudes

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, erotic, fine art, Golden Age, Ham Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Joe Palooka, lurid, nude, pin up, pirate, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 6, 2018

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