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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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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.

The Cottage

Artist: Herbert Paus
Price:  $2,350.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Edwardian, Golden Age, Herbert Paus, illustration, Minnesota Artist, motor car, new york city, original illustration art, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2018

An early and exceptional painting by New York artist and illustrator Malcolm Strauss who specialized in motor genre works creating Automobile Club posters.

Edwardian Beauty of The Motor Age

Artist: Malcolm Strauss
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1900s, advertising, american, automobilia, Edwardian, illustration, Malcolm Strauss, motor car, new york city, poster design
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2017

A kinetic, pop culture, post-war pulp painting by Mort Kunstler painted in 1964 and published as a cover in March of 1967 "For Men Only". A fear mongering and chaotic depiction loosely illustrating the story "Belly Dancer Raid to Spring Russia's Top Rocket Man." Painting is very nicely framed and ready to hang.

Russia's Top Rocket Man

Artist: Mort Künstler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, automobilia, cold war, For Men Only, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, motor car, original cover art, pulp, russian, the sweats
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2014

This powerful example of golden age American illustration art playfully explores the tension between past and future presented in the early motor age. In this affecting unsigned image, the cliche of the Western Americana "Westward Ho" expansion scene is reinterpreted through the addition of an up-to-the-minute flapper girl in an adorable cloche hat. Beneath our heroine--who, along with her car, is checked out by a cowboy attired service attendant--text reads "Forms No Hard Carbon."

Forms No Hard Carbon

Artist: Unknown
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, automobilia, Charles Edward Chambers, Charles Martignette, cowboy, flapper, Golden Age, motor car, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: June 26, 2012

A rare surviving cover painting for the long running Motor Magazine title which evolved alongside the car industry from the very early years of automobilia through the machine age of progress and invention. Robinson executed these light-hearted Americana views for this Hearst title from the 1920s through the 1950s, this work appeared as the cover for the September 1930 issue. Here, a hard working garage hand is shown using a different sort of elbow grease to pry loose a coin from a tightwad couple by explaining the workings of "Ellbo - A Super Automotive Polish".

A Little Elbow Grease

Artist: Robert Robinson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, automobilia, magazine cover, motor car, original cover art, Robert Robinson
Added to Gallery: November 24, 2010

A fantastic WPA-themed interior illustration from the February 1931 issue of American Magazine. A Union president riles up a group of miners for an epic David versus Goliath style battle, from the seat of a stylish touring coupe. Herbert Paus was a gifted and prolific illustrator, known for his highly technical & visionary watercolor industrial illustrations. He designed World War One posters and illustrated numerous covers for Liberty, Popular Science, Life, Delineator, & Collier's magazines. Like Edward Penfield, Paus was for many years an illustrator for Hart Shaffner and Marx clothiers. An enthusiastic modernist, he worked prolifically creating defining and iconic images of American industrialization. His commissions included Goodyear Tires and Willy's Automobiles.

Rallying the Miners

Artist: Herbert Paus
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, American Magazine, art deco, Herbert Paus, motor car, original interior illustration, WPA
Added to Gallery: December 9, 2006

A Norman Rockwell-esque picturesque scene featuring a couple out for "a Sunday Drive" in the early 20th century. They are taking in the sights and showing off their 1908 Buick, in this 1940s produced Robert Berran idealized rendering of a bygone-era of rural Americana.

A Sunday Drive

Artist: Robert Berran
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, automobilia, Edwardian, motor car, Robert Berran
Added to Gallery: January 26, 2006

A large dramatic oil on canvas would appear to be an illustration for use as a cigarette advertisement . Signed lower right "Pritchard 27 . A large evocotive and decidedly art deco creation which is mysterious in many ways and proved difficult in researching .

Art Deco Cigarette Advertising Illustration

Artist: Pritchard
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, cigarettes, motor car, Pritchard
Added to Gallery: November 25, 2002

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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