Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Education and Truth by Steven Stroud” amount=”750.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This mixed media watercolor, pen & ink on artist’s paper shows a woman relaxing on a couch with a book in hand. Her reading has been interrupted by an individual who leans over close into her body, gesticulating wildly with […]

Education and Truth or Truth in Education – “Good as Gold” Interior Illustration

Artist: Steven Stroud

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Every Change is for the Worse by Steven Stroud” amount=”750.00″ no_shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This pen & ink on artist’s paper shows a man in a t-shirt and running shorts jogging around an indoor second-level running track. He appears strained and breathless – clearly not enjoying the exertion. This illustration appears […]

Every Change Is for the Worse – “Good as Gold” Interior Illustration

Artist: Steven Stroud

After watching the 1942 revival of Hedda Gabler, starring Katina Paxinou, Helen Morley, and Ralph Forbes, James Montgomery Flagg created this watercolor gag sketch, which gently roasts his friend Cecil Humphreys for his acting in the role of Judge Black.  The 1892 Henrik Ibsen play is a deeply psychological look at the life of a […]

Katina Paxinou as Hedda Gabler

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg

James Montgomery Flagg’s watercolor sketches were an endless source of amusement and cheer to his friends and colleagues.  Here, the artist works to cheer up his friend Cecil Humpheys after the poor reviews of the 1942 revival of J.M. Barrie’s play A Kiss for Cinderella in which he starred alongside Louise Rainer. Flagg depicts laughably […]

Louise Rainer in A Kiss For Cinderella

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg

 

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