Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Global Glamour – Typical Beauties on All Our War Fronts A fine surviving cover illustration painting by Henry Clive for the August 27, 1944 edition of “The American Weekly”, a Randolph Hearst publication. Clive enjoyed a three decade long association with this title, he often created serialized successive monthly covers of female heroines throughout history. […]
Artist: Henry Clive
Not So Simple – A Gouache Illustration by Dick Williams Up for sale is a beautifully rendered and emotionally wrought World War II-era gouache painting by artist and illustrator Dick Williams. In this published work of art, a young, blonde haired, blue-eyed, girl-next-door lies on her bed surrounded by letters from her beau who is […]
Artist: Dick Williams
This large World War II-era illustration is a sprawling depiction of life in Japan for American soldiers. Created with gouache and watercolor by artist and illustrator Stevan Dohanos, this image was published in the July 3, 1943 issue of The Saturday Evening Post to illustrate the short story “A Lot To Learn” by Hal G. […]
Artist: Stevan Dohanos
Original 1943 painting by Tom Lovell for Cosmopolitan magazine, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Tom Lovell
The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe interrogates the tension between war and peace, past and future in this abstractly inspired gouache artwork dating to the end of World War II.
Artist: Vladimir Yoffe
In part one of our blog series on Jewel Flowers, we explored how the model rose from teenaged North Carolina beauty queen to become muse and adored friend to illustrator and Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong as well as how the pair’s keen eye for fashion translated into the gorgeous costumes seen in Armstrong’s pastels. […]
This is a gritty Ashcan School-influenced Social Realist depiction of several wounded WW II-enlisted Navy Men reloading a rocket launcher while under heavy attack. A large watercolor-on-artists-paper by the very well listed Boston artist Henry O’Connor, who was a member of the Boston Art Club, president of the Artist Fellowship in New York City and The Salmagundi Club. O’Connor’s work appeared in McClure’s magazine, he illustrated several U.S. Navy books, and did presidential portraits of Roosevelt and his son.
Artist: Henry O'Connor
A moody and stirring work by Alton S. Tobey lamenting the loss of souls on February 3rd 1943 in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Work commemorates the lives of four World War II chaplains who made the ultimate sacrifice to save others as their stricken ship went down after coming under attack from German torpedo fire.
Artist: Alton Tobey
A rugged and gritty WWII – era illustration by the prolific American artist E.F. Ward, which was created as part of the advertising campaign for Seiberling Rubber Company. Published as the central image for a magazine interior advertisement that appeared in numerous wartime periodicals, Safe Passage is a large format well-realized gouache on illustration board painting which […]
Artist: E.F. Ward
Jewel Flowers; a diminutive gem of an artist’s model who was muse to Rolf Armstrong for half his career, and whose popularity at times threatened to surpass his. Armstrong began the 1940s known for vampy flappers and radiant pin-ups with art deco sophistication, a style that was waning in popularity at the time. His meeting with Flowers, an unknown […]
