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Original Mid-Century Modern original artwork for a travel poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad showing the Le Corbusier designed United Nations Building in midtown Manhattan.

New York By Railroad

Artist: American Artist
Price: $6,500.00  $4,550.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: architecture, Le Corbusier, mid-century, new york city, railroadiana, United Nations
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2018

Grapefruit Moon Gallery just unearthed a small collection of original Campbell’s Soup Kids illustrations. These appeared as print ads in countless American mainstream publications such as The Saturday Evening Post in the 1930s. In this offering a Dolly Dingle-type character Campbell’s Soup Kid doubles as a railroad flagbearer with lantern ablaze attesting to the importance of the railroad in 20th century American history. Verso is stamped with a usage print date of 10/11/33. Painting is nicely matted and framed behind glass and ready to hang.

Campbell’s Soup Kid Railroad Scene

Artist: School of Grace Drayton
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, american, Campbell's Soup Kids, cartoon, child, Grace Drayton, illustration, railroadiana
Added to Gallery: April 27, 2015

An inventive and unique hand crafted Holiday Seasons Greeting Card from the F. Burtis Clayton Company who we believe were a commercial airbrush art studio. The cover features a streamlined airbrushed painting of a modernist silhouetted cityscape with planes, trains and automobiles ushering in the machine age. Nicely framed, this opens to reveal text and New Year’s wishes as would a more typical holiday card.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Artist: Unknown
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, automobilia, aviation, F. Burtis Clayton Company, holiday, machine age, modernist, new years eve, progress, railroadiana, skyline, streamline
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2011

A large, inventive oil on canvas by the well listed artist and illustrator Charles Shepard Chapman. A spirited look at the ongoing Industrial Revolution and progress minded upheaval of the 1920s with a focus on transportation. Pictured in the mist of streamlined modernist trains and bi-planes are antiquated horse and buggy carriages and river paddle boats. The artwork heralds the machine age and harnesses the art deco shapes, forms and exuberance that was infectious in the epoch before the stock market crash of 1929.

The Spirit of Transportation

Artist: Charles Chapman
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, aviation, Charles Chapman, Industrial Revolution, modernist, progress, railroadiana
Added to Gallery: March 18, 2010

A colorful Western stylized 4th of July parade scene by the American Illustrator Edward V. Brewer, best known for his Cream of Wheat Advertising works. The large, vibrant, oil-on-board painting features a bright color palette and inspired Main Street scene and was used as a travel poster by the Northern Pacific Railroad to promote travel to America’s rugged and daunting Rocky Mountains. From the Charles Martignette estate, the recently deceased author of “The Great American Pin-up”.

Rodeo Parade

Artist: Edward Brewer
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, Charles Martignette, Edward Brewer, Minnesota Artist, native american, poster design, railroadiana, rodeo, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: September 7, 2009

A noir and moody interior illustration by frequent Coca Cola illustrator Joseph W. Little for Randolph Hearst ‘s American Weekly Magazine, 1943.

Head for Kentucky

Artist: Joseph Little
Price: $2,500.00 $1,750.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, art nouveau, Joseph Little, lurid, noir, original interior illustration, railroadiana, Randolph Hearst, victorian
Added to Gallery: May 4, 2005

 

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    About Grapefruit Moon Gallery

    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.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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