Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

thanksgiving

A large American impressionist oil painting by the well listed illustrator Edmund Davenport. A frequent cover artist for a number of Golden Age of Illustration glossy magazine titles, Davenport excelled at this manner of romancing the celebratory moments of life without resorting to obvious sentimentalism. This well realized and luminous work utilizes an impasto technique and a lush fall color palette and was used as the cover for the November 1928 Thanksgiving cover for The American Magazine.

Thanksgiving Day Harvest

Artist: Edmund Davenport
Price:  $8,500.00

A spirited Thanksgiving holiday advertising illustration by John G. Scott. This original gouache was commissioned by the Cream of Wheat company for their 1923 holiday promotion. The image depicts a pair of cherubic young pilgrims with plenty to be thankful for. This has a J.C. Leyendecker inspired sensibility, and is nicely matted and framed. The work comes with a printed full page tear sheet of published art.

Thanksgiving

Artist: John G. Scott
Price:  S O L D

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is proud to offer the second of several original John Louis Rhead Art Nouveau/Belle Epoque-era illustrations only recently acquired from a New York estate. This large Thanksgiving Harvest goddess colorful and stylized image is titled November in pencil by the artist on the lower margin. The work is matted and framed in a large period gesso frame. This is an astonishing and rare surviving document from this American poster master. Rhead’s work appeared alongside Alphonse Mucha, Jules Cheret and Toulouse Latrec pieces in Les Maîtres de l’Affiche (Masters of Posters) folios at the turn of the last century.

November

Artist: Louis Rhead
Price:  S O L D

 

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