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Original 1954 paperback cover painting by Richard Cardiff, He Hanged Them High, about Wild West judge Isaac C. Parker. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

He Hanged Them High

Artist: Richard Cardiff
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Judge, western
Added to Gallery: October 4, 2018

This rugged barroom shootout scene is a dramatically rendered, Western Americana gouache illustration by the California illustrator Fred Ludekens.

Shoot Out In Santa Inez

Artist: Fred Ludekens
Price: $1,500.00 $1,050.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: cowboy, Fred Ludekens, Old West, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Saturday Evening Post, western
Added to Gallery: December 11, 2017

An action packed damsel in distress fire rescue pulp cover painting by Sam Cherry for the February 1943 issue of Thrilling Ranch Stories – Romantic Stories of The West. A fearless square jawed handsome cowboy emerges from a burning building with a damsel in his arms, his pistol a blazin’, as our felled damsel struggles to regain […]

Burned Prairies

Artist: Sam Cherry
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, cowboy, damsel in distress, Golden Age, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, pulp, Sam Cherry, Thrilling Ranch, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

An unsigned oil on stretched canvas pulp cover painting for the December 1947 issue of the Thrilling Publications Western title Thrilling Western. A rugged square jawed handsome cowboy with a noose around his neck engages in a barbed wire shoot out illustrating the interior story Bullets and Salt by Bradford Scott. The stories tag-line as follows … When […]

Bullets And Salt

Artist: Sam Cherry, Atrributed
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, cowboy, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, Thrilling Western, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

A 1949 Western Americana cowgirl themed gouache on illustration board which comes directly from the archives of the 100-year-old San Francisco ad agency/lithography company “Stecher-Traung & Schmidt.” The work is in the style of George Petty, and Ben-Hur Baz. Among other noted artists Stecher-Traug employed Gil Elvgren, E.B. Segner & Mary Mayo. This commissioned illustration is dated and inkstamped in the lower corner but is unsigned. Work is beautifully framed and matted in a period ornate gesso frame.

A Cowgirl Shooter

Artist: Unknown
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, american, cheesecake, cowgirl, illustration, original illustration art, pin up, Stecher-Traung, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

An action packed, Western Americana pulp cover painting by George H. Wert, which was commissioned and used by Street & Smith publishers for the July 9, 1927 edition of Western Story Magazine. A square jaw ranch-hand rustles a group of steer while casually smoking a cig, one of the classic cowboy images that inspired the Marlboro Man. Created with […]

The Stampede

Artist: George H. Wert
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, George H. Wert, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western, Western Story Magazine
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

    This rare surviving original oil on canvas by H.J. Ward was created for the September, 1938 edition of Romantic Western. Only in the upside down, just plain evil world of the pulps would such a lurid and unchivalrous ultra-violent depiction exist on the same playing field with the word romantic. Painted with enough action to capture […]

Devil’s Punchbowl

Artist: H.J. Ward
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, cowboy, cowgirl, Golden Age, H. J. Ward, lurid, original cover art, pulp, Romantic Western, The Golden Gallery, western
Added to Gallery: June 11, 2015

Triple X Rancho is perhaps the most unabashedly lurid spicy pulp scene created by Allen Anderson during his prolific career as a freelance illustrator. This image, which features a terrified yet sexually provocative pin up cowgirl being branded against her will was created as the cover of the February 1943 edition of Spicy Western Stories, Volume #8 Issue #6. This rare surviving oil painting is in a very fine state of conservation and one of but a few examples of the artist’s published pulp covers to emerge.

Triple X Rancho

Artist: Allen Anderson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Allen Anderson, american, cowgirl, damsel in distress, lurid, pin up, pulp, Spicy Western Stories, western
Added to Gallery: February 6, 2013

A lurid spicy pulp cover oil painting by Allen Anderson
created as the cover of the February 1943 edition of Speed Western Stories, Volume #1 Issue #2 (Trojan Publishing, Chicago). A rare surviving example of Western themed spicy pulp cover art, this was unearthed along with two additional original cover paintings by Allen Anderson that had for many years been displayed at the Cimarron Dude Ranch in Peekskill, New York.

Frisco Or Bust

Artist: Allen Anderson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Allen Anderson, american, damsel in distress, lurid, magazine cover, Minnesota Artist, new york city, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Speed Western Stories, western
Added to Gallery: February 6, 2013

Allen Anderson created this damsel in distress, Western spicy pulp oil on canvas painting as the cover of the April 1943 edition of Speed Western Stories, Volume #1 Issue #4 (Trojan Publishing, Chicago). This vivid and rare surviving example of lurid spicy pulp cover art was unearthed by Grapefruit Moon Gallery along with two additional original cover paintings by Allen Anderson that had for many years been displayed at the Cimarron Dude Ranch in Peekskill, New York.

Bucky Swings The Whip

Artist: Allen Anderson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Allen Anderson, american, damsel in distress, lurid, magazine cover, Minnesota Artist, new york city, original cover art, pin up, pulp, Speed Western Stories, western
Added to Gallery: February 6, 2013

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