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    A daring gang of female POWs rappel down a wall of a secret “Nazi Sex Stalag” atop the perilous heights provided by Germany’s notorious Liecht castle, with the help of the “G.I. master escaper” Sergeant Howard Lester. This tense and taut hyper dramatic interior illustration scene by Bruce Minney is a classic example of men’s […]

Breakout Girls Of The Sex Stalag

Artist: Bruce Minney

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, menace, nazi, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    The Song Without Words is an original Orientalist genre painting by the American artist and illustrator Daniel Content which appeared as a full page color plate in the May 1937 issue of The Ladies Home Journal. Illustrating a story by famed early frontier woman Rose Wilder Lane, the image was published along side a caption […]

The Song Without Words

Artist: Daniel Content

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Daniel Content, Golden Age, Laura Ingalls Wilder, orientalist, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: December 12, 2014

      Anton Otto Fischer is perhaps the Golden Age of Illustration artist most associated with maritime-genre paintings. This tense and dramatic shipwreck scene, created for the August 3, 1952 edition of The American Weekly Magazine, showcases his unique ability to show the grandeur and danger of the open water. Illustrating an interior story titled “Pulaski […]

Pulaski Sinking

Artist: Anton Otto Fischer

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Weekly, Anton Otto Fischer, Golden Age, Maritime, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Pulaski
Added to Gallery: December 11, 2014

Nothing says “I’ve arrived” about a genre of art than its appearance on the walls of museums and galleries, and though it could be argued that illustration art is fashionably late to the party, its arrival is making a splash. Since the founding of Grapefruit Moon Gallery in 2003, we’ve seen a handful of touring exhibits […]

Illustration Art Takes Museums At Light Speed

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: advertising, Alberto Vargas, fine art, illustration, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: November 8, 2014

        A sentimental nostalgic Americana interior gouache illustration painting for the November, 1946 edition of Ladies Home Journal by Jon Whitcomb, perhaps the most accomplished artist of the era’s mainstream “glossy” illustrators. Commissioned for an interior story about a special puppy titled “A Dog Named Oliver”, with all of the trademark Whitcomb […]

A Dog Named Oliver

Artist: Jon Whitcomb

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Jon Whitcomb, Ladies Home Journal, original interior illustration, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2014

    A cheerful and romantic seasonal Holiday themed gouache illustration by the prolific and well regarded Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee artist Joe Bowler for an interior story titled “The Christmas House.”  This appeared in the December, 1958 edition of The Ladies Home Journal. A fabulous time capsule with a colorful mid-century modern […]

The Christmas House

Artist: Joe Bowler

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: christmas, holiday, Ladies Home Journal, mid-century, original interior illustration, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2014

A two paneled signed pen & ink illustration drawing by Nell Brinkley published as an interior illustration in a 1931 edition of Life magazine. On the left the biblical Eve is seen in the Garden of Eden, in harmony with nature and god’s living creatures before her fall into temptation. The right image shows Jill, a […]

Eve & Jill

Artist: Nell Brinkley

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Adam & Eve, american, art deco, Brinkley Girl, flapper, Golden Age, LIFE, Nell Brinkley, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pin up, satirical
Added to Gallery: June 29, 2014

    This majestic and otherworldly oil-on-board by the New York illustrator A.D. Rahn is a reflection on the decadence of the Broadway stage circa 1915. A beautiful and haughty blonde, whose bobbed hair and dropped waist gown evoke Irene Castle, is seen emerging from backstage with the help of a green imp, her own high […]

Making her Appearance

Artist: A.D. Rahn

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, A.D. Rahn, american, art nouveau, flapper, Irene Castle, new york city, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pin up, sci-fi, theater
Added to Gallery: June 13, 2014

This stylized and dramatic large gouache painting was created by the well regarded American Golden Age Illustrator Wilmot Emerton Heitland as an interior magazine illustration. In this dramatic art deco scene, a confrontation in an artist’s studio plays out as the handsome male artist appears to be at odds with his pretty svelte modernist flapper […]

Confrontation in the Artist’s Studio

Artist: Wilmot Heitland

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Dean Cornwell, Duluth Superior, Golden Age, Henry Raleigh, Howard Pyle, original interior illustration
Added to Gallery: December 17, 2013

An allegorical angelic scene by noted American fine artist, muralist, and illustrator Charles Allen Winter titled “Liberty Unchained.” Our research leads us to believe this was an interior magazine illustration for Cosmopolitan, which ran a series of spiritually relevant writings by Roycroft founder and early twentieth century philosopher Elbert Hubbard under the title “Little Sermons”–all illustrated by Winter. Several of Winter’s “Sermons” paintings were then reproduced in Hubbard’s own publication “The Fra.” From the estate of Charles Martignette, the sadly departed author of the “The Great American Pin-Up.”

Liberty Unchained

Artist: Charles Winter

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, allegorical, angel, arts & crafts, Charles Martignette, Charles Winter, christian, Elbert Hubbard, illustration, muralist, original interior illustration, Roycroft, spiritual, The Fra
Added to Gallery: September 21, 2013

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