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Paul MacAlister

An inventive early offering by the noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister, who went on to be an interior designer especially noted for his mass-produced “Plan-a-Room” kit with scale furniture and room layouts that could be used to plan and organize home spaces for consumers. This is a very well executed work it is done in the style of Erte essentially and features an art deco nude goddess of the darkness cowering under the bright sunshine radiating from the corner of the canvas – superimposed with a pipe smoking skeleton in a trompe l’oeil “trick of the eye” manner.

Spain, 1929

Artist: Paul MacAlister
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, chicago, Erté, industrial age, macabre, nude, Paul MacAlister, spanish
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2017

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
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, Rube Goldberg, study, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2016

The ninth of ten proposed mural paintings by Mahlon Blaine created for a never completed Paul Ritter MacAlister interior space in New York City. Under the pseudonym G. Christopher Hudson Blaine developed this sequence of dystopian views of the machine age. In this work a nude hand feeds dollar bills to an animate yet robotic cash register which serves as the greedy symbolic manifestation of industry. Again the artist employs a patriotic red & white and blue color palette to alarming effect.

Feeding The Man

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price: $5,500.00 $3,850.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, study, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2016

This is the largest and most detailed and only signed painting from this series by Mahlon Blaine, number eight of ten the verso is titled “Nude on Gadget – Out of Control” and signed “G. Christopher Hudson” with a New York City address. In this image a nude sits atop the observation deck of the Chrysler Building high above New York City in a frozen in time Salvador Dali like winter surrealist cityscape. A frozen water faucet has created a block of ice that a nude goddess sits on oblivious to the cold as city workers attempt to break the ice and another hoists construction lumber from the skyscrapers iconic art deco modernist machine-age observation deck.

Nude on Gadget (Out of Control)

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, science fiction, The Golden Gallery, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2016

The seventh of ten mural concepts by Mahlon Blaine for a New York City public space designed by noted industrial designer Paul Ritter MacAlister. This work is stylistically a departure, a cubist abstract half man/half woman nude that guards or invites one into a passageway in a color palette and modernist style suggestive of Picasso.

The Passage

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price: $3,500.00  $2,450.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, abstract, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 21, 2016

The sixth of ten 1939 mural designs by Mahlon Blaine, which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City industrial designer Paul MacAlister. A vacuum tube headed, praying mantis-like robot battles a cowering nude goddess in the ongoing saga of the menace of industry. Marked on verso design #6, this comes beautifully matted and framed from the estate of Paul Ritter MacAlister.

Cowering Nude With Robot

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  SOLD

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, macabre, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2016

The fifth of ten 1939 mural designs by Mahlon Blaine, which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City industrial designer Paul MacAlister. In this scene our nude goddess pours flower petals into the mouth of a robotic machine as a Buckingham Palace Royal Guard on horse cleverly protects her modesty. The adjoining stone masonry watches on in amusement as a bird of pray hovers above tied from a high building rafter that frames the scene. An inspired visionary artwork in a red, white and blue Americana color palette. Marked on verso design #5, this comes beautifully matted and framed from the estate of Paul Ritter MacAlister.

Nude Feeding Industry

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2016

The fourth of ten 1939 mural designs by Mahlon Blaine, which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. In “The Toast of Manhattan” a nude goddess with serpents for hair pours a martini for a tuxedo clad robot as the adjoining stone masonry watches on disapprovingly. Even the tenements have eyes in this surrealist and inspired visionary artwork. Marked on verso design #4, this comes beautifully matted and framed from the estate of Paul MacAlister.

The Toast of Manhattan

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, martini, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, study, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 12, 2016

The third of ten gouache paintings created by Mahlon Blaine in 1939 under the pseudonym G. Christopher Hudson, offering a dark and pessimistically erotic take on the skyscraper landscape that was taking over Manhattan. In this scene a nude Medusa like creature ball dances with a robot in a high wire styled act on scaffolding high above the city. Blaine treated each individual painting in the series as its own completed stand alone artwork, with painstaking detail and inspired yet terrifying imagery.

Nude Dancing with Robot

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, study, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 12, 2016

In the late 1930s, avant garde illustrator Mahlon Blaine, working under the pseudonym G.Christopher Hudson created a series of illustrations which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. In this work, the second of the series, a mechanical bird menaces the Medusa-inspired nude goddess who cowers atop a stone robot in a patriotic American apple pie infused red, white and blue color palette.

Mechanical Bird and Nude

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
Price: $6,500.00  $4,550.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, erotic, illustration, industrial age, machine age, Mahlon Blaine, modernism, mural, muralist, new york city, nude, Paul MacAlister, robot, WPA
Added to Gallery: May 11, 2016

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