Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”The Mayan Room by Cardwell Higgins” amount=”2500.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] 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 […]

The Mayan Room

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

    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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The tenth and final proposed mural painting by Mahlon Blaine for a New York City interior showroom for industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, created in 1939 under the pseudonym G.Christopher Hudson. In this original gouache painting a nude uses a movie camera to capture assorted gadgets working together to become a Rube Goldberg machine, in a pointed commentary on the needless complexities of life in the machine age. Painting is handsomely framed and matted behind glass and is initialed lower left from the estate of Paul Ritter MacAlister.

The Chain Reaction

Artist: Mahlon Blaine

 

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