For sale is an original 1977 advertising painting by G. R. Cheesbrough created as an advertisement for Venture Travel agency in Minneapolis MN.
Artist: G.R. Cheesebrough
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
For sale is an original 1977 advertising painting by G. R. Cheesbrough created as an advertisement for Venture Travel agency in Minneapolis MN.
Artist: G.R. Cheesebrough
A well rendered and precise colorful interior gouache painting by one of our favorite art deco-era illustrators Herbert Paus that reflects the attention to detail and skill of the artists working during the Golden Age of Illustration. This large signed work depicts a son leaving his family’s pastoral cottage by carriage as his grieving mother looks on. A nostalgic look back at the well to do culture of pre-machine age American society.
Artist: Herbert Paus
A stark and WPA in aesthetic signed oil on canvas painting by the important Minnesota artist Dewey Albinson. This was exhibited as fine art and is titled on verso in the original exhibition tag “Event in the Loft” – Don Quixote Volume #1 Chapter 16″. The artist utilizes bold impressionist brush strokes and a subdued color palette to explore his fascination with Miguel Cervantes’s story of Don Quixote.
Artist: Dewey Albinson
A dizzying, kinetic, brilliant large-scale fine art oil painting by the American artist and illustrator Theodore Haupt, signed in the lower right corner and dated 1929. This important surviving painting was created in Haupt’s signature modernist style combining elements of Cubism and Surrealism. Lyrical figures of swirling burlesque dancers depicted in lush harmony are juxtaposed with heavy […]
Artist: Theodore Haupt
Evoking both French impressionism and the regionalist spirit of the WPA, this Dewey Albinson oil on canvas shows a pair of figures (seemingly father and daughter) walking through a country lane on a summer afternoon. With their backs to the viewer, the pair walk from the shadows towards the sunshine, but further down their path […]
Artist: Dewey Albinson
This pin up bathing beauty original painting was created by T J Kuck. It is an extremely well done oil painting of a pretty girl in a swimsuit on the beach, this would appear to date to the 1960s. T. J. Kuck, also known as Ted Kuck, worked as an artist for the Brown and […]
Artist: T. J. Kuck
A lurid spicy pulp cover oil painting by Allen Anderson
created as the cover of the February 1943 edition of Speed Western Stories, Volume #1 Issue #2 (Trojan Publishing, Chicago). A rare surviving example of Western themed spicy pulp cover art, this was unearthed along with two additional original cover paintings by Allen Anderson that had for many years been displayed at the Cimarron Dude Ranch in Peekskill, New York.
Artist: Allen Anderson
Allen Anderson created this damsel in distress, Western spicy pulp oil on canvas painting as the cover of the April 1943 edition of Speed Western Stories, Volume #1 Issue #4 (Trojan Publishing, Chicago). This vivid and rare surviving example of lurid spicy pulp cover art was unearthed by Grapefruit Moon Gallery along with two additional original cover paintings by Allen Anderson that had for many years been displayed at the Cimarron Dude Ranch in Peekskill, New York.
Artist: Allen Anderson
This May 1930 science fiction pulp gouache painting on illustration board by noted comic artist Charles Clarence Beck who signed much of his work C.C. Beck illustrates a poem by Donald Wandrei titled Marmora. Our research suggests this could be the earliest published example of Beck’s work, as it predates his first known job by a few years. The work is sensational with a cobalt blue color palette and precise landscape work which appears to be influenced by Rockwell Kent.
Artist: C. C. Beck
A haunting and technically masterful painting on board by science fiction and pulp illustrator Hannes Bok, the first artist to win the prestigious Hugo Award. In 1954, Bok contributed this image for the back cover plate of Destiny – No.10, the early sci-fi fanzine published to coincide with the 12th World’s Science Fiction Convention in San Francisco. In that usage, the Tolkien-esque martian illustrates the the Richard E. Geis poem “Kill Me Earthmen.” This is titled on verso “Sentry” and is dated 1944 lower left.
Artist: Hannes Bok