Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A fabulous American Impressionist fine art painting by the well regarded artist Charles Allan Winter depicting a bashful redhead catching her nude reflection in an idyllic secluded watering hole of a stream. The painting is signed in the lower left corner and is housed in a fabulous American Arts & Crafts aesthetic gallery frame. This […]
Artist: Charles Winter
This is a large format erotic pin-up calendar painting by the English illustrator Arnold Armitage. This was likely painted in about 1950 and appeared in calendars at that time with the title Studio Setting. This nude beauty proved too provocative for some markets, and the calendar company began issuing a version of this piece wherein the nudity […]
Artist: Arnold Armitage
Who–Who’s There? is a large and genre defining oil on board pin-up painting by Edward Eggleston, which was published by the American Art Works calendar company in the early 1930s. This is a rare surviving published calendar painting by the New York artist, created in an impressive light and shadow technique, capturing an art deco nude […]
Artist: Edward Eggleston
This large, colorful, and bustling painting by the prolific American artist Louis Glanzman appeared in the April 26, 1952 issue of Collier’s magazine, illustrating “Honkytonk – U.S.A.” by William Slocum. In this scathing analysis, the honkytonk is described in great and scandalous detail as a lawless den of sin, whose unscrupulous owners prey on male weakness, hiring low-class strippers […]
Artist: Louis Glanzman
This is a signed and dated 1917 oil on canvas fine art painting from Polish artist Joseph Kostka. The artist exhibited throughout Europe during the late 1800s and early 1900s with a focus on still lives and dreamy turn-of-the-century figurative studies.
Artist: Joseph Kostka
This symbolist watercolor painting by the important Austrian artist Paul Grabwinkler shows a luscious nude on the cliffs with a skeleton at her feet.
Artist: Paul Grabwinkler
A dark and mystical exhibited fine art oil painting by the prolific and frequent Golden Age of Illustration pulp artist Harry Fisk.
Artist: Harry Fisk
A fine exhibited nude oil painting by Joseph Tomanek, that was exhibited in the 1920s at a Chicago Galleries Association fine art show.
Artist: Joseph Tomanek
This gouache illustration painting appeared on the cover of Naked Sinner, the 1959 “savage novel of a wild call girl and her shocking immoral affairs”.
Artist: American Artist
A captivating, lustful, original cover painting by Victor Kalin created for use as cover art for the 1959 Dell paperback edition of the Scott Jordan mystery Murder on Broadway by Hal Masur. The work was titled The Last Gamble in its hardback incarnation, but the paperback title captures the lurid allure of the mystery of […]
Artist: Victor Kalin
