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A fresh to the market oil painting on canvas by an American artist that was created as cover art for the  January, 1949 issue of 10 Story Western. A lurid Wild West pulp title that premiered in 1936 published by Popular Publications. A rugged nattily attired cowboy on the run, lights a match at the […]

Hanged Wrong

Artist: American Artist

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cowboy, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: May 2, 2019

A fresh to the market oil painting on canvas by noted artist & illustrator Sam Cherry, this artwork was created for use as the cover of the January, 1947 issue of New Western Magazine. A lurid Wild West pulp spectacle of a rugged cowboy holding a hapless hostage in a chokehold with his handcuffs as […]

New Western Cowboy Pulp Cover

Artist: Sam Cherry

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cowboy, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, portrait, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: May 2, 2019

Fred Rodewald created this classic and exciting 1940s pulp cover painting for an as of yet unidentified Thrilling Publications Western title. The image shows a handsome cowboy returning gunfire while precariously perched on a fallen log, protecting the requisite damsel in distress. The scene is filled with tension, romance, and danger, a combination which American […]

Shootout On A Log

Artist: Fred Rodewald

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Fred Rodewald, Golden Age, magazine cover, pulp, Thrilling Publications, western americana
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This exciting Western pulp oil on stretched painting appeared was created as cover art for the fall 1942 issue of the Thrilling Publications Western title Exciting Western. The scene shows a handsome cowboy and smartly attired cowgirl returning fire on unseen villains in this tautly rendered, action packed, bright and bold image. Grapefruit Moon Gallery […]

Exciting Western

Artist: Earle K. Bergey

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This large and evocative interior illustration by Herbert Morton Stoops was commissioned by Cosmopolitan magazine to accompany a story titled “Swans Mate” which appeared in the September 1925 edition. The briskly composed Western frontier scene shows a wild west culture war where a citified young lady encounters a rugged cowboy on the edge of the frontier. The grizzled ranch hand is either amused or annoyed with the pert, […]

Swan’s Mate

Artist: Herbert Morton Stoops

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Golden Age, Herbert Morton Stoops, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Society Of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Honoree, western americana, Western Art
Added to Gallery: June 27, 2016

An action packed, Western Americana cover painting by the American illustrator Charles Durant, this appeared as the cover of the May 8, 1926 edition of Western Story Magazine. The scene is set on the main street of a Wild West frontier town as a robber on horseback grabs a bag from a fellow outlaw, the town’s grizzled inhabitants looking on […]

The Heist

Artist: Charles Durant

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Charles Durant, Golden Age, magazine cover, original illustration art, pulp, Street & Smith, western americana, Western Story Magazine
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

On offer is an action packed, large format cover painting by George H. Wert, commissioned by Street & Smith publishers for the April 27, 1929 edition of Western Story Magazine. A foiled bank robbery in the old west as the three tough as nails cowboys heed orders to “Come out with your hands up”. The artist employs a heavy […]

Come Out With Your Hands Up

Artist: George H. Wert

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, George H. Wert, Golden Age, magazine cover, Old West, original cover art, original illustration art, pulp, western americana
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

Rolf Armstrong created this Western-themed pin-up cowgirl pastel for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company in the early 1950s. The adorable Americana image was published as a calendar with the titles Come And Get It!, and Soups On! This original artwork has tremendous electric cobalt blue coloring as the artist captured the last fleeting minutes of light, imagining a dreamy, well-realized, wide […]

Come And Get It!

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, cowgirl, Jewel Flowers, original calendar art, Original pastel, Rolf Armstrong, western americana
Added to Gallery: February 26, 2015

This powerful example of golden age American illustration art playfully explores the tension between past and future presented in the early motor age. In this affecting unsigned image, the cliche of the Western Americana “Westward Ho” expansion scene is reinterpreted through the addition of an up-to-the-minute flapper girl in an adorable cloche hat. Beneath our heroine–who, along with her car, is checked out by a cowboy attired service attendant–text reads “Forms No Hard Carbon.”

Forms No Hard Carbon

Artist: Unknown

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, automobilia, Charles Edward Chambers, Charles Martignette, cowboy, flapper, Golden Age, motor car, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: June 26, 2012

An important early cover painting by Jerome Rozen for the June 7, 1927 long running twice monthly adventure pulp title “Popular Stories.” This painting combines Westward Ho, covered wagon western Americana imagery with civil war drama, in a vaguely historical scene with intensely powerful imagery. The depiction, in the strong color blocks for which the pulps were famed, features a confederate soldier menacing an elderly African America slave and sympathetic young damsel who are attempting to flee unspoken horrors through the desolate prairie.

A Covered Wagon Confrontation

Artist: Jerome Rozen

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, civil war, Golden Age, Jerome Rozen, magazine cover, original cover art, Popular Stories, pulp, Street & Smith, The Shadow, western, western americana
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2011

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