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Gouache on board illustration by Samson Pollen

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is a thrilling, vintage and original, grayscale gouache on board by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1960s men’s magazine art, this high-stakes, action-packed illustration was likely published as an interior illustration of a men’s adventure magazine. Excitement abounds in […]

Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration

Artist: Samson Pollen
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, blonde, gouache, illustration, magazine illustration, Men's Magazine art, original interior illustration, pulp, Samson Pollen
Added to Gallery: February 20, 2020

Published Samson Pollen illustration

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is an exceptionally rendered, exceedingly sexy, vintage and original gouache on board grayscale illustration by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1970s men’s magazine art, this heady, thrilling illustration was published in a November 1970 issue of For Men Only […]

Gridiron Nymph

Artist: Samson Pollen
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, blonde, football, gouache, illustration, locker room, men's adventure magazine, Men's Magazine art, original interior illustration, pin up, pulp, Samson Pollen
Added to Gallery: February 20, 2020

Cropped view of artwork by Samson Pollen

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is an extensive, vintage and original, gouache on board illustration done in grayscale by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1960s men’s magazine art, this salacious and provocative illustration was published in a July issue of Men magazine to accompany […]

Germany’s Fräulein Camps

Artist: Samson Pollen
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, gouache, illustration, magazine illustration, men's adventure magazine, Men's Magazine art, original interior illustration, pulp, Samson Pollen
Added to Gallery: February 20, 2020

This vintage illustration features a disheveled Jimmy Stewart type in rumpled raincoat and hat, being side-eyed with disdain. The other fellow appears to be wearing last night’s tuxedo, if the stack of pancakes is any indication. Since we have yet identified the use or artist of this piece, we can’t do more than speculate on […]

Meeting At A Diner

Artist: American Artist
Price: $950.00  $655.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, en grisaille, Golden Age, Men's Magazine art, noir, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: May 22, 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  $655.00

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

  An action packed, rough and tumble, large format illustration by Bruce Minney for the Michael Brett Book Bonus story The High Rollers, which graced the pages of Stag Magazine in August of 1967. A Las Vegas-based tale that promises to deliver “… motel shackups… Las Vegas goon-killers… girls with a top price on their bodies!…” […]

The High Rollers

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, Bruce Minney, lurid, Men's Magazine art, original interior illustration, sleaze
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2015

      An explosive, apocalyptic WWII battle scene rages in this lurid large format illustration painting by Bruce Minney which appeared as the cover for the October 1963 edition of For Men Only magazine. With its strong jawed GIs and busty damsels with dynamite, the cover slug line of “playgirls turned killers…” sexploitive narrative is on full display, […]

Fräulein Raiders

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, Men's Magazine art, pulp, The Golden Gallery, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

With a human sacrifice as the central conflict, a high octane tribal fight scene, and lurid bondage damsel in distress subject matter, this Bruce Minney artwork–which appeared as the cover for the June 1970 edition of New Man Magazine–captures all of the subversive allure of the Men’s magazine genre. Loosely illustrating the interior story, “Smash the Latins’ Jungle Combine […]

New Man Cover

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, damsel in distress, lurid, Men's Magazine art, sweats
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    This provocative, subversive interior illustration by Bruce Minney for Male Annual #8, 1970 illustrates the interior story “I Fought A Desert Bullwhip Duel For A Fortune In Gems.” The S&M and fetish themes are foregrounded in the image as Minney shows Yank Pat Duncan armed with only the whip of his savagely murdered partner getting frontier justice in […]

Bullwhip Duel

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Bruce Minney, fetish, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    An action packed Cold War-era interior illustration by Bruce Minney for the October, 1965 edition of For Men Only. Illustrating the special book bonus story by Bill S. Ballinger, Nude Of The China Seas, an excerpt from The Spy in the Jungle, book three in the Joaquin Hawks thriller series.  The story itself focuses on Hawks’s James […]

Nude of the China Seas

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, Men's Magazine art, menace, original illustration art, original interior illustration, risque
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

 

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