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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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The Saturday Evening Post

This trio of images by Thornton Utz was created to illustrate a single story in the flagship Curtis Publishing magazine The Saturday Evening Post. With a bold mid-century modern aesthetic and the dry brush gouache technique popular in glossy magazines in the 1950s, the set presents an enticing take on American femininity as idealized during the Cold […]

The Honeycomb Sensations

Artist: Thornton Utz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Curtis Publishing, glamour, Golden Age, original illustration art, pin up, The Saturday Evening Post, Thornton Utz, Triptych
Added to Gallery: August 30, 2016

A delicately rendered mixed media work by Edwin Georgi which illustrated an interior story in The Saturday Evening Post. A tense dramatic courtroom portrayal from 1959 which captures the Perry Mason/Earle Stanley Gardner American Pop Culture sensation which was resonating at the time this commissioned work appeared in the Post. The lovely Georgi girl is "Policewoman O'Keefe," and this work confirms our suspicion that illustrators frequently created their finest works for this highly circulated and revered Curtis Publications slick mainstream magazine institution.

The Girl from the Mimosa Club

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, Edwin Georgi, glamour, mid-century, original interior illustration, police, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2016

A delicately rendered high society Belle Epoque turn of the century Venice Italy gondola scene . Most likely an interior illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, as Wright was a weekly contributor there. Wright was born in 1872 and a member of the National Academy. He founded an artistic community in Westport, CT, and his works are in numerous museums and galleries . He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Davenports, the Artists Bluebook and The Illlustrator in America by Walt Reed.

Gondola in Venice

Artist: George Hand Wright
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, belle epoque, George Hand Wright, gondola, original interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: April 29, 2016

  An intensely colored, dramatic and moody, mixed media illustration work by Edwin Georgi, Date With Death, which illustrated an interior story by Leslie Ford in The Saturday Evening Post. The image shows a favorite Georgi theme, the moment of discovery of betrayal in a love triangle. A complete edition of the February 12, 1949 Saturday Evening […]

Date With Death

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Edwin Georgi, macabre, noir, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: December 2, 2014

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer The World's Fare, a rare surviving archived Cream of Wheat original oil painting. This 1923 artwork was reproduced as a full page advertisement in hundreds of American magazines. Featuring the iconic chef "Rastus" feeding a host of ethnically diverse, exotically dressed and cleverly posed children. Along with other selections from the archive, The World's Fare was loaned out in the late 1980s for a touring gallery exhibition. None of the original paintings commissioned for Cream of Wheat advertising have ever previously been available for sale and we are delighted to offer them.

The World's Fare

Artist: Edward Brewer
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, child, Cream of Wheat, Edward Brewer, globe, Minnesota Artist, original illustration art, Rastus, The Golden Gallery, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: October 13, 2013

A haunting original watercolor on board verso stamped for use by The Saturday Evening Post by acclaimed American illustrator Henry Soulen. From a pre-air travel era in American popular culture when tastes ran towards the exotic, foreign and mysterious. Nicely framed in a period gesso gold wood frame.

Interior Orientalist Scene at an Altar

Artist: Henry Soulen
Price:  SOLD !!

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, exoticism, Henry Soulen, orientalist, original interior illustration, religious, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2012

An outstanding large oil painting by the well listed and prolific fine artist and illustrator Frederick Sands Brunner, this oil on canvas features a pretty red haired sunlit nude with an engaging smile and pretty figure with porcelain white skin gathering water at a stream. The verso bears a foil gallery label for Newman Galleries in Philadelphia where the artist exhibited and sold many of his his works in this genre.

Art Deco Nude at Stream

Artist: Frederick Sands Brunner
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, fine art, Frederick Sands Brunner, naturalist, Newman Galleries, nude, The Golden Gallery, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: July 2, 2012

An original published gouache illustration painting on board by the Connecticut painter and illustrator Robert Fawcett. The verso label states this was used in a Saturday Evening Post story titled the 'Ghost Inn Society'. Signed in initials 'RF' and notated as Robert Fawcett on the Curtis Publishing Company verso affixed label. Outside the margins are centering spots for print usage. Image shows three women in discussion in a cluttered mid-century office done in a Norman Rockwell-like Americana illustrative style. Fine condition, well framed.

Ghost Inn Society

Artist: Robert Fawcett
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, original interior illustration, Robert Fawcett, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: June 20, 2011

This large and luminous oil on canvas by Charles E. Chambers was created most likely as an interior story illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Though the piece is unsigned, it contains all of the characteristics of Chambers work, and is undoubtedly an example of his glossy magazine socialites. Dating to about 1930, the scene features a number of refined jazz age beauties in modest yet flapper inspired apparel enjoying a garden teatime with a dapper suitor.

Tea in the Afternoon

Artist: Charles Edward Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Charles Edward Chambers, flapper, high society, jazz age, original interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: May 23, 2011

A luminous and rare Golden Age of Illustration cover oil painting for the Saturday Evening Post, entitled "Graduate On Top Of the World", by Edmund Davenport. This appeared as the cover the June 13, 1925 issue and is a fresh to the market work that finds the artist (who contributed three Post covers in 1925) painting in a Norman Rockwell like illustrative style. The unusual subject, that of a confident, young pretty, independent flapper on graduation day, and the scarcity of surviving Post covers from this era add to the already enormous appeal of this lovely and historic American illustration painting.

Graduate On Top Of The World

Artist: Edmund Davenport
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Curtis Publishing Company, Edmund Davenport, flapper, Golden Age, graduate, magazine cover, original cover art, The Golden Gallery, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2011

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