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A Courtroom Circus by Jack Levitz Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges is a large, colorful, and well-executed 1930s Art Deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This […]

Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges

Artist: Jack Levitz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, burlesque, circus, Jack Levitz, oil painting, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

This large, colorful, and bustling painting by the prolific American artist Louis Glanzman appeared in the April 26, 1952 issue of Collier’s magazine, illustrating “Honkytonk – U.S.A.” by William Slocum. In this scathing analysis, the honkytonk is described in great and scandalous detail as a lawless den of sin, whose unscrupulous owners prey on male weakness, hiring low-class strippers […]

Honkytonk-U.S.A.

Artist: Louis Glanzman
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, burlesque, Collier's, Golden Age, Honkytonk, illustration, Louis Glanzman, nude, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2018

The Main Attraction is a large, colorful, and very well-executed 1930s art deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on canvas shows a seedy New York City theater, with a writhing burlesque dancer bathed in […]

The Main Attraction

Artist: Jack Levitz
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Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, burlesque, erotic, Jack Levitz, lurid, new york city, risque, Urban, vaudeville, WPA
Added to Gallery: February 27, 2017

A delightful pen & ink drawing of a flirty coquettish lass who goes by the name of “The Tango Girl”. In all ways this appears to be an artwork by Nell Brinkley though it is inscribed “Mae Howers”, not sure if this perhaps was the model? The image, style, handwriting and era all point to this being the work of Nell Brinkley.

The Tango Girl

Artist: After Nell Brinkley
Price:  $950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, Brinkley Girl, cartoon, flapper, jazz age, Mae Howers, Mae West, Nell Brinkley, tango, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: November 20, 2016

A finely executed dated 1927 pen & ink illustration on board by Cardwell Higgins with inventive art deco style. A Persian attired Orientalist showgirl is depicted in a burlesque vaudeville-era Ziegfeld Follies inspired theatrical production. The work recalls the erotic and stylized pen & ink works of British artist Aubrey Beardsley.

A Persian Orientalist Showgirl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, burlesque, Cardwell Higgins, follies, nude, orientalist, spiritual, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: May 11, 2012

This Pierrot-inspired flapper girl pastel was created by Henry Clive as cover art for a Hollywood Comedy Club burlesque program. With a mischevious glint in her eye, the smiling blond embodies the devil-may-care ethos of the early jazz age. After moving to California to work in silent films, Clive was very much a part of the Hollywood social scene. This original pastel is an early example of his fraternal pursuits, and includes a faint dedication to a fellow member of the Hollywood Comedy Club for which this was created.

Hollywood Comedy Club

Artist: Henry Clive
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Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, art deco, burlesque, flapper, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, Masquers Club, original cover art, pierrot, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2011

An early fabulous pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins in the art deco manner titled “Siamese Dancers”, possibly a commissioned work for use by Paramount Films where the artist was under contract in the late 1920s. Higgins completed a series of like minded costumed art deco pen & ink drawings between the years of 1927 – 1929 that were re-marketed as a series of limited edition art prints under the guidance of Charles Martignette in 1979. The work is finely matted and framed behind glass in a handsome art deco black and silver fine gallery frame.

Siamese Dancers

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, dance, jazz age, nude, orientalist, siamese dancers, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: May 28, 2010

A dazzling, large oil on canvas painting by frequent Saturday Evening Post cover artist Frederic Stanley. This wild prohibition-era, Charleston-dancing, Roaring Twenties flapper girl celebrates a Loew’s Theatre New York Policeman’s Ball Burlesque show. This is a wonderfully rendered artwork and a piece of New York history originally owned by Eve Green, the first wife of hotel magnate Harry Helmsley. Created for the cover of the program associated with this 1926 review, this important work showcases the 1920s jazz-age aesthetic of Manhattan’s bustling Vaudeville/Burlesque social scene.

The Policeman’s Ball, 1926

Artist: Frederic Stanley
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, burlesque, flapper, Frederic Stanley, jazz age, Loew's, new york city, pin up, police, prohibition, The Golden Gallery, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: October 12, 2009

A macabre gouache rendering by Mahlon Blaine for an as of yet undetermined publication. A highly charged noir erotic scene depicting a Vaudeville era Burlesque performer in allegorical temptation scene. The devil, with serpent’s tongue is shown behind a nude dancer representing temptation. The two figures left and right are shown as stand ins for good and evil. Blaine was a unique talent, and counter culture avant-garde artist who worked outside of the confines of the mainstream.

Demonized Burlesque Dancer

Artist: Mahlon Blaine
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, avant-garde, burlesque, erotic, macabre, Mahlon Blaine, noir, nude, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2008

A roaring 20’s flapper girl in a tophat tames a pair of tigers with her feminine guiles. Most likely a cover for a spicy pulp or early vaudeville era magazine. Artwork is mindful of similar covers by Earle K . Bergey, Otto Grenier or H.J. Ward. Like much pulp cover art, this work is unsigned.

Leopard Tamer Pin Up Girl

Artist: Unknown
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, circus, flapper, jazz age, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2003

 

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