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Virgil Finlay

A modernist abstract mixed media painting by Virgil Finlay, who was an important prolific American pulp and science fiction illustrator. Signed and dated 1965 lower right and titled on verso #51. Executed in a colorful and abstract manner with raised translucent areas, oil paint and pen and ink. Smartly framed and ready to hang.

Abstraction #51

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2017

This dazzling and otherworldly painting by Virgil Finlay appeared on the cover of the July 1954 issue of Fate magazine, a special issue solely focused on the powers of Hypnotism. A scarce original pulp cover illustration from this long running title, this was for many years part of the storied collection of Robert Weinberg. Work is nicely matted and framed […]

How To Hypnotize

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Fate Magazine, Golden Age, Hypnotism, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, pulp, risque, sci-fi, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2017

An inventive example of modern abstract art by the prolific pulp artist Virgil Finlay, signed and dated 1966 and titled on verso “Gambling Man”. Notations found on the back of the painting in Virgil Finlay’s handwriting read “The buttons of the jailer,”January 6, 1966, on reading Brian Moore re Caffey.)

Gambling Man

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, illustration, modernist, psychedelic, pulp, science fiction, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2016

 This unusual example of a science fiction themed menace pulp illustration by the talented artist Lawrence Sterne Stevens was created as cover art for the July 1948 issue of Fantastic Novels.  Renowned for his grotesque imaginative horror art, and often compared to contemporary Virgil Finlay, Stevens was named after his father–a deeply religious preacher–and signed […]

Alien Menace Pulp Cover

Artist: Lawrence Sterne Stevens
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: damsel in distress, Fantastic Novels, Lawrence Sterne Stevens, menace, original cover art, pulp, sci-fi, The Golden Gallery, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: January 24, 2014

Cubist Maidens is a lyrical and poignant original mixed medium fine art painting by the prolific and well remembered science fiction and pulp cover artist Virgil Finlay. Work is signed and dated lower left and again on the verso. Modernist and inventive in style, the work is executed in grease pencil and water color, with a scratchboard technique of cutting back into the drawing used to define the faces. This unusual example deftly shows the technical mastery and imagination of this important American illustrator.

Cubist Maidens

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1960s, abstract, american, fine art, maiden, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: January 17, 2012

A dazzling and otherworldly cover painting by Virgil Finlay for the August 1947 edition of “Famous Fantastic Mysteries” illustrating the interior story by Andrew Marvell titled “Minimum Man”,”A Novel of Terror Unseen”. A scarce commissioned science fiction themed pulp cover from this long running title for Popular Publications and a rare surviving luminous example and one of Finlay’s finest celebrated cerebral creations.

Minimum Man

Artist: Virgil Finlay
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, pulp, science fiction, The Golden Gallery, Virgil Finlay
Added to Gallery: March 3, 2009

 

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    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.

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