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This 1940s painting by Alfred Statler features a bustling rush-hour NYC Subway commute envisioned almost as modern dance.

Rush Hour NYC Subway Commute

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Subway, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

For Sale: signed and inscribed pastel by Rolf Armstrong showcasing Jewel Flowers, his most iconic model, muse, closest friend and confidant.

Jewel Flowers In Hawaiian Lei

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, glamour, Golden Age, hawaiiana, Lei, new york city, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

Original Mid-Century Modern original artwork for a travel poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad showing the Le Corbusier designed United Nations Building in midtown Manhattan.

New York By Railroad

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: architecture, Le Corbusier, mid-century, new york city, railroadiana, United Nations
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2018

In this haunting, surreal oil on canvas painting, a train platform rises above assembled automobiles that are parked below a bridge in this transportation minded urban cityscape. At the top, a seemingly living cathedral rises into the night. Captured with oils on canvas in a dark haunting color palette, the dramatic impasto technique is impressive and everything […]

The Night Cathedral

Artist: Alfred Statler

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Andy Warhol, modernist, new york city, regionalist, Subway Cars, Urbanism, WPA
Added to Gallery: June 19, 2018

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

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
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

Dating to the WPA-era, when many American artists turned their attention to the perils of modernity, urbanization, and the consequences of industrialization, this oil on canvas fine art painting takes a surreal and bleak apocalyptic look at a cityscape (likely New York City) being set upon by a serpent and the wolves that act as his familiars.

City In Ruins

Artist: Unknown American Artist

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Cityscape, fantasy, fine art, Golden Age, new york city, outsider art, science fiction, WPA
Added to Gallery: December 20, 2017

A large original pen & ink illustration by the important Belle Epoque era poster and book illustrator Louis Rhead. This likely was done for Harper’s or Century Magazine. A great large rendering in the Art Nouveau manner and a rare surviving original illustration work by the great New York based prolific and gifted illustrator and artist.

Art Nouveau Maiden in February

Artist: Louis Rhead

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, Louis Rhead, maiden, new york city, original illustration art, winter
Added to Gallery: December 4, 2017

A bewitching and highly detailed pen and ink rendering by Louis Rhead used in the 1915 book publication of Lorna Doone. Caption Reads ” Lorna and John Ridd before Sir Ensor Doone…. Fools you are be fools forever, said Sir Ensor Doone, at last.” Beautifully matted and framed in an antique period fine wood gilt lined frame.

Lorna & John Ridd Before Sir Ensor Doone

Artist: Louis Rhead

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, Louis Rhead, new york city, original interior illustration, poster design
Added to Gallery: December 4, 2017

A sophisticated, topical Orson Lowell pen & ink drawing featuring a Japanese soldier bowing before a mythically inspired goddess of death (named by Lowell Mortise, a play on the latin word for death) with the caption So Sorry – have made mistake. The age of this piece, which dates to the first years of the 20th century, makes this by all accounts a commentary on the massive casualties ensued during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, a war Japan won, but at a human price much too high.

The Spoils of War

Artist: Orson Lowell

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, allegorical, american, art nouveau, japanese, maiden, new york city, original interior illustration, Orson Lowell, political, spiritual
Added to Gallery: September 28, 2017

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

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

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