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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

Restaurant Mayan This large Mayan themed stylized gouache illustration on board was created by Cardwell Higgins as a menu design and brochure cover for Rockefeller Center’s innovative Restaurant Mayan, 16 West 51st. Street, New York. A brochure printed for the opening of the restaurant which shows Higgins at work painting mural panels for the fabulous […]

The Mayan Room

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $2,625.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, gouache, new york city
Added to Gallery: May 10, 2017

    A streamlined and modernist look at the attractions and Futurama-inspired architecture that graced the 1939 – 1940 New York World’s Fair. This tremendous and bustling work is by the noted muralist, illustrator, and fine artist Andre Durenceau, who was hired with much fanfare to create murals for the Metals Building at this fair. […]

Publicity for The New York World’s Fair

Artist: Andre Durenceau
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Andre Durenceau, art deco, machine age, muralist, new york city, pin up, The Golden Gallery, The New York World's Fair
Added to Gallery: April 8, 2017

The Main Attraction is a large, colorful, and very well-executed 1930s art deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on canvas shows a seedy New York City theater, with a writhing burlesque dancer bathed in […]

The Main Attraction

Artist: Jack Levitz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, burlesque, erotic, Jack Levitz, lurid, new york city, risque, Urban, vaudeville, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

A climactic moment from the epic story of Don Quixote as depicted by by Willy Pogany. This is titled on verso in the artist’s hand “The Enchanters Put Don Q. In A Cage”. A commissioned “Golden Age of Illustration” work used in a 1920s adaptation of Don Quixote. Signed lower right beautifully framed and silk matted behind glass.

The Enchanters

Artist: Willy Pogany
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, children's book art, Don Quixote, Golden Age, hungarian, illustration, new york city, original interior illustration, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2017

An action filled battle at sea original watercolor illustration painting by noted Hungarian born Golden Age Illustrator Willy Pogany. Used in a 1920s adaptation of Don Quixote, in this scene an alluring sea siren means certain death in this fantasy laden, impactful work that is beautifully framed and silk matted behind glass.

A Sea Siren

Artist: Willy Pogany
Price: $1,400.00  $1,050.00

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, children's book art, Don Quixote, fantasy, Golden Age, hungarian, new york city, original interior illustration, sea siren, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2017

This is a haunting watercolor by renowned book illustrator Willy Pogany. Marked on verso “Doll House Hell” this is a dark noir rendering of an evening on a boathouse. The pylons and trees are turning into monsters and even the sky appears to be weighing down on the lone boat. Pogany is best remembered for his illustrated volumes of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Doll House Hell

Artist: Willy Pogany
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, 1940s, american, art nouveau, fantasy, Golden Age, hungarian, illustration, new york city, noir, set design, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: January 27, 2017

This technically dazzling painting by the French-American artist, muralist, and illustrator Andre Durenceau shows a colorful art deco landscape conceived in the manner of Rockwell Kent, with a lake in the foreground and an oversized flying fish adding the surreal touch for which the artist was known to the scene. This gouache on canvas is signed lower right and […]

Flying Fish

Artist: Andre Durenceau
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Andre Durenceau, art deco, landscape, new york city, Rockwell Kent
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2016

From a recent east coast estate auction,  Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]

New York City Crossing Street Light

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, Ashcan School, new york city, NYC, regionalist, Time Magazine, Urban, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2016

From a recent east coast estate auction, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to have acquired a previously unseen collection of American Impressionist oil paintings dating to the 1940s and executed in a WPA, Regionalist, and often times stark Ashcan School design aesthetic. These are the work of the important American photo-journalist Alfred Statler, who was […]

Runaway Train

Artist: Alfred Statler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alfred Statler, new york city, regionalist, Time Magazine, Trains, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 25, 2016

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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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