• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Key Artists
    • Rolf Armstrong
    • Mahlon Blaine
    • Henry Clive
    • Gil Elvgren
    • Cardwell Higgins
    • Earl Moran
    • Charles Gates Sheldon
    • Arthur Prince Spear
    • Bunny Yeager
  • About
  • Browse by Topic
  • Contact

Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

  • Gallery Blog
  • Golden Gallery
  • Fine & Decorative
  • Illustration & Advertising
  • Paperback & Pulp
  • Pin-Up & Glamour

oil painting

On offer is a large format interior magazine oil on canvas illustration that shows a refined couple in a not-so-refined moment, as a fashionable woman winds up to throw a high-end vase at the head of a man who appears to be her beau. Does he deserve it? We assume so, but since we have […]

The Confrontation

Artist: Albert Jannset

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Golden Age, noir, oil painting, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: May 7, 2019

An original Calendar published luminous oil on canvas by noted and prolific pin-up illustrator Art Frahm used in 1956 by “The Goes Litho. Company” of Chicago Illinois. This large and pristine pin-up painting displays to fine effect Art Frahm’s softer and less rough around the edges sensibilities and provides a good-girl art glamour counterpart to his infamous series of “panties dropped” pin-up paintings that have recently sold from the Charles Martignette estate and found buyers at between $20,000 – $25,000.00 per work at auction.

Roses From You

Artist: Art Frahm

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Calendar Art, Goes Litho. Company, oil painting, pin up
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2017

A bustling street scene of the artist’s native Brooklyn New York, with tenements and street vendors on view on a picturesque busy New York corner. The painting is signed lower left F. Krieger, and was painted in a regionalist, WPA aesthetic in the 1930s by Florence Krieger, a well listed and exhibited Brooklyn artist who worked in a variety of mediums. Painting is framed in a rough hewn wide profile wood frame and is ready to hang.

A Bustling Brooklyn Avenue

Artist: Florence Krieger

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Exhibited, oil painting, regionalist, WPA
Added to Gallery: December 17, 2016

Stockton Mulford created this compelling oil on canvas illustration of a daring aviatrix for the April, 1924 issue of Everybody’s Magazine. The art accompanied the interior story The Long Call, a Canadian Northwest rescue adventure story by Kathrene and Robert Pinkerton that centered on a fictional embodiment of the early 20th century independent woman.  The story of Peggy Thorpe, who at […]

The Long Call

Artist: Stockton Mulford

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, aviation, Everybody's Magazine, oil painting, pulp, Stockton Mulford, WWI
Added to Gallery: July 17, 2015

« Previous Page
 

Contact Grapefruit Moon Gallery



    Primary Sidebar

    Join our mailing list

    Grapefruit Moon Gallery Around the Web

    • Facebook
    • Instagram

    Copyright © 2026