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Orson Lowell

An impish winged cupid is the subject of this Edwardian Americana illustration by famed and prolific artist Orson Lowell. It appeared as the September 25, 1913 cover of Life Magazine’s Heart To Heart Number.

A Warm Heart

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, cherub, Cupid, Golden Age, LIFE, magazine cover, original cover art, Orson Lowell
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2018

An early 1900’s original illustration by Orson Lowell depicting a group of young boys taking in a baseball game knot-hole style. Major League Baseball of course still uses the term when larger ticket buys of youth groups are involved. I had never made a connection with the visual here, that the term stemmed from young boys peering through knot holes in the lumber used to build the outfield fences. A nostalgic Americana, baseball themed work by the gifted and prolific important golden age illustrator. Nicely matted and framed and ready to enjoy.

The Knot Hole Game

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, american, baseball, child, Golden Age, illustration, Knot hole game, original interior illustration, Orson Lowell, sports
Added to Gallery: January 14, 2018

This Orson Lowell scene of a flapper couple ice yachting with the unexpected help of a pierrot deckhand was presumably created as a cover painting for Collier’s magazine.

Ice Sailing

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price: $13,500.00  $9,450.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, boat, Collier's, flapper, magazine cover, original cover art, Orson Lowell, pierrot, The Golden Gallery, winter
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2017

A sophisticated, topical Orson Lowell pen & ink drawing featuring a Japanese soldier bowing before a mythically inspired goddess of death (named by Lowell Mortise, a play on the latin word for death) with the caption So Sorry – have made mistake. The age of this piece, which dates to the first years of the 20th century, makes this by all accounts a commentary on the massive casualties ensued during the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905, a war Japan won, but at a human price much too high.

The Spoils of War

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, allegorical, american, art nouveau, japanese, maiden, new york city, original interior illustration, Orson Lowell, political, spiritual
Added to Gallery: September 28, 2017

A whimsically rendered, belle-epoque pen and ink illustration, presumably created for an early issue of Life magazine, addressing the adventures of growing old. A young girl on the left attempts to gain the attention of father time (viewed literally handing out birthdays off of an old cart) while Edwardian attired women on the right flee the aging process. This appears to be an illustration for a writing by Helen Ring Robinson, the author who in 1908 adaped a version of Uncle Tom’s cabin for children. Her name is ghost written in light pencil upper left below one of the 8 draining hour glasses.

Adventures in Growing Old

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price:  SOLD !!

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, belle epoque, cartoon, Edwardian, Helen Ring Robinson, LIFE, original interior illustration, Orson Lowell
Added to Gallery: February 5, 2007

A sharp, scathing political commentary on the heartlessness of tycoons, barons and monopolists. Depicting a fat cat industrialist sitting on top of the world wih his east coast riches dreaming from behind binoculars of otherworldly conquests as he crushes the masses beneath him. A commsissioned illustration presumably for an early issue of Life Magazine, the image captures with wonderful humor the anti-Eastern, trust-busting late Progressive culture of the early 20th century. Work is beautifully framed and matted.

Fat Cat On Top Of the World

Artist: Orson Lowell
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, Andrew Carnegie, cartoon, globe, LIFE, Orson Lowell, satirical
Added to Gallery: January 29, 2007

 

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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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