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Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir

Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir

Located in Miami, FL

It's not that it's a commissioned artwork for a men's 60s pulp adventure magazine depicting the instant a soldier is shot.

Category

1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustration
Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustration

Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustration

By Clinton Pettee

Located in Fort Washington, PA

That cover is considered by collectors as the most valuable of all pulp magazines, with a copy selling recently for almost $60,000.

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Street Violinist Figurative
Street Violinist Figurative

Street Violinist Figurative

Located in Soquel, CA

In 1930 he began to draw interior story illustrations for Street & Smith's western pulp magazines. In 1932 he began to sell freelance cover paintings to pulp magazines, such as Detec...

Category

1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Soldier Shooting Gun  with Bikini Girls,  Mid-Century Mens Magazine War
Soldier Shooting Gun  with Bikini Girls,  Mid-Century Mens Magazine War

Soldier Shooting Gun with Bikini Girls, Mid-Century Mens Magazine War

By Mort Künstler

Located in Miami, FL

It's the perfect mix for adventure-hungry young men in the early 1960s who consumed the action pulp magazine. Signed lower right and signed on titled, dated on verso with a revision ...

Category

1960s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

"Pleading with the Umpire"
"Pleading with the Umpire"

"Pleading with the Umpire"

By Gayle Porter Hoskins

Located in Fort Washington, PA

He built a steady career working for Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Liberty, and Harper's Bazaar until he transitioned into Pulp magazines following the stock market crash.

Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Grzegorz Domaradzki - Pulp Fiction Set - Contemporary Cinema Film Movie Posters
Grzegorz Domaradzki - Pulp Fiction Set - Contemporary Cinema Film Movie Posters

Grzegorz Domaradzki - Pulp Fiction Set - Contemporary Cinema Film Movie Posters

By Grzegorz Domaradzki

Located in Asheville, NC

The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.

Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Color, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Screen

Formal Affair
Formal Affair

Formal Affair

By Tom Lovell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

His first illustrations were created for pulp magazines when he still was in college. As a professional artist, his work has appeared in most national magazines.

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rajah of Sarawak -  Mid-Century Mens Magazine - Pulp Adventure Magazine
Rajah of Sarawak -  Mid-Century Mens Magazine - Pulp Adventure Magazine

Rajah of Sarawak - Mid-Century Mens Magazine - Pulp Adventure Magazine

By Mort Künstler

Located in Miami, FL

Male illustration Illustration - Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, KCB (29 April 1803[1] – 11 June 1868), was a British adventurer whose exploits in the Malay Archipelago made him...

Category

1950s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

American Western TEXAS FAMILY REUNION watercolor mixed media
American Western TEXAS FAMILY REUNION watercolor mixed media

American Western TEXAS FAMILY REUNION watercolor mixed media

Located in New York, NY

Began as an illustrator of western pulp magazines. Work includes more than 200 covers for Saturday Evening Post, many based on his childhood.

Category

1970s American Impressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor

Boy Astronaut
Boy Astronaut

Boy Astronaut

By John Howitt

Located in Milford, NH

He also became well known for his painting of pulp magazine covers, working for Street and Smith, Adventure, and Popular Detective.

Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“She had taken an enormous fancy to the girl” illustration for Harper’s Monthly
“She had taken an enormous fancy to the girl” illustration for Harper’s Monthly

“She had taken an enormous fancy to the girl” illustration for Harper’s Monthly

By Gayle Porter Hoskins

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Establishing a new studio in Wilmington, Hoskins embarked on a prolific career, becoming especially renowned for his captivating outdoor and Western scenes, which graced the covers o...

Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Secret Project
Secret Project

Secret Project

By Amos Sewell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

At the same time, he began to draw black and white dry-brush illustrations for the Pulp magazines. He illustrated his first major manuscript for The Country Gentleman in 1937; next ...

Category

1940s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Surreal Road, Monument Valley,  Sci-fi Photography,  Science Fiction
Surreal Road, Monument Valley,  Sci-fi Photography,  Science Fiction

Surreal Road, Monument Valley, Sci-fi Photography, Science Fiction

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

The decades of the 1920’s - 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul. Virgil Finlay employed a scratchboard and stippled technique for such...

Category

1970s Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

1969 Monoprint by H. Lawrence Hoffman, Signed
1969 Monoprint by H. Lawrence Hoffman, Signed

1969 Monoprint by H. Lawrence Hoffman, Signed

Located in New York, NY

Hoffman began his career doing drawings for the pulp magazine, "Thrilling Mystery Magazine", A Ned Pines publication, and book cover illustrations for the emerging mass market paperb...

Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint

"November Morning, " Original Etching signed by Churchill Ettinger
"November Morning, " Original Etching signed by Churchill Ettinger

"November Morning, " Original Etching signed by Churchill Ettinger

By Churchill Ettinger

Located in Milwaukee, WI

During the 1940’s he worked as an art director for Pine Publications, a leading publisher of pulp magazines. An avid outdoorsman, Ettinger was commissioned by top sporting magazines...

Category

1940s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Three Oval Glows

Three Oval Glows

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

The decades of the 1920’s - 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul. Virgil Finlay employed a scratchboard and stippled technique for such...

Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Couple with Seascape)
Untitled (Couple with Seascape)

Untitled (Couple with Seascape)

By Peter Stevens

Located in Cliffside Park, NJ

In 1943 he sold freelance pulp covers to Popular Publication's magazine Argosy.

Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board

The Return Of The Four, All Around Magazine Cover
The Return Of The Four, All Around Magazine Cover

The Return Of The Four, All Around Magazine Cover

By Newell Convers Wyeth

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Notes: NEWELL CONVERS WYETH (American, 1882-1945) The Return of the Four, All Around Magazine, pulp cover, December 1915 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in.

Category

1910s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

TRUTH
TRUTH

TRUTH

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

A Schooner off of the Coast
A Schooner off of the Coast

A Schooner off of the Coast

By Gordon Grant

Located in Wiscasett, ME

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bathing Group
Bathing Group

Bathing Group

By John Edward Costigan

Located in Sheffield, MA

During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Secret Pattern I
Secret Pattern I

Secret Pattern I

By Ken Polinskie

Located in Surfside, FL

John Yau, Art Forum Magazine, Review, January 1989. Octavia Zaya, “Kenneth Polinskie: Ansiedades de la Memoria,” Balcon-3, 1989.

Category

20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"
Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"

Gordon Grant Sail Boat Lithograph "Salt Bark - Gloucester"

By Gordon Grant

Located in New York, NY

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Christmas Scene, Maxwell Coffee Advertisement

Christmas Scene, Maxwell Coffee Advertisement

By Walter Martin Baumhofer

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 34.00" x 24.00" Maxwell House Coffee, "Home for Christmas..." (1945) For years, Walter Martin Baumhofer painted cover desi...

Category

1940s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bathing Group
Bathing Group

Bathing Group

By John Edward Costigan

Located in Sheffield, MA

During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Man Leading Horse
Man Leading Horse

Man Leading Horse

By Amos Sewell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Like many illustrators of the time, he got his first freelance illustration assignments from the pulp fiction world, doing inside magazine illustrations for Street & Smith Publicatio...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Hunters
Hunters

Hunters

By Amos Sewell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Like many illustrators of the time, he got his first freelance illustration assignments from the pulp fiction world, doing inside magazine illustrations for Street & Smith Publicatio...

Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Work and Play
Work and Play

Gordon GrantWork and Play

Price Upon Request

Work and Play

By Gordon Grant

Located in Missouri, MO

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Bathers
Bathers

Bathers

By John Edward Costigan

Located in Sheffield, MA

During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at ...

Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman and Child
Woman and Child

Woman and Child

By John Edward Costigan

Located in Sheffield, MA

During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at ...

Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

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Lorence Bjorklund "Trail Bros", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Trail Bros", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Trail Bros", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Fight Back or Die", original ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Fight Back or Die", original ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Fight Back or Die", original ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

Category

1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Skating
Skating

John DrewSkating, 1920s

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H 47 in W 33 in D 3 in

Skating

By John Drew

Located in Minneapolis, MN

He returned to NYC in 1925, where he sold a freelance cover painting to Street & Smith's pulp magazine Sea Stories. By 1928 he was selling interior illustrations and painted covers t...

Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Rabbis
The Rabbis

Samuel George CahanThe Rabbis

Unavailable

H 29 in W 23 in

The Rabbis

By Samuel George Cahan

Located in Los Angeles, CA

During the 1930s his drawings appeared as chapter headings in the pulp magazine Argosy. In 1936 he visited France to study art museums and paint street scenes.

Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

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Gordon Grantuntitled

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H 21 in W 28 in

untitled

By Gordon Grant

Located in Coral Gables, FL

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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untitled

Gordon Grantuntitled

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H 21 in W 28 in

untitled

By Gordon Grant

Located in Coral Gables, FL

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Noir Pulp Magazine, Dead Man in the Snow, Mid Century, Latin Art Hispanic Artist
Noir Pulp Magazine, Dead Man in the Snow, Mid Century, Latin Art Hispanic Artist

Noir Pulp Magazine, Dead Man in the Snow, Mid Century, Latin Art Hispanic Artist

By Rafael DeSoto

Located in Miami, FL

His parents were Milagros and Domingo DeSoto, a noble Spanish banking family descended from the famous conquistador, Hernando de Soto - In 1932 he began to sell freelance cover paint...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Pulp Illustration

Pulp Illustration

By H.W. Kiemle

Located in Fort Washington, PA

His illustrations soon appeared on the covers of the pulp magazine Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine.

Category

20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lifeguard, Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Lifeguard, Original Magazine Cover Illustration

Lifeguard, Original Magazine Cover Illustration

Located in Fort Washington, PA

By 1941, Mat Kauten was selling realistic cover designs to the pulp magazines. He got into trouble as a conscientious objector in World War II and continued his anti-war activities d...

Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Path to Plunder
The Path to Plunder

The Path to Plunder

By Sidney Harry Riesenberg

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.5" x 24.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right The Path to Plunder, Western Story pulp magazine cover, March 17, 1928

Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Big Catch, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover

Big Catch, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover

By Charles Dye

Located in Fort Washington, PA

He later sold pulp covers to Popular's Adventure Magazine and Argosy.

Category

1950s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover

Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover

By Peter Driben

Located in Miami, FL

Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover signed lower left foxing and toning throughout oil and mixed media on board work is framed

Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Mixed Media, Board

"Landscape"
"Landscape"

"Landscape"

By Paul Frederick Berdanier

Located in Southampton, NY

Louis School of Fine Arts, he worked as an advertising artist in the 1920’s and illustrated pulp magazine in the 1930’s. Berdanier worked on various features for United Feature Syndi...

Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Explorer oil on canvas by Ed DeLavy
The Explorer oil on canvas by Ed DeLavy

The Explorer oil on canvas by Ed DeLavy

Located in Paonia, CO

He became known for his black and white illustrations for a variety of of pulp magazines such as Detective Novel, Exciting Western.

Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Watchers, Dakota Indians
The Watchers, Dakota Indians

Nick Eggenhofer The Watchers, Dakota Indians

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H 14.7 in W 19.7 in D 2 in

The Watchers, Dakota Indians

Located in Saratoga Springs, NY

He estimated that he made about 30,000 drawings and paintings for pulp magazines and novels over the course of his career.

Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Traffic Jam Saturday Evening Post cover, April 28, 1956
Traffic Jam Saturday Evening Post cover, April 28, 1956

Traffic Jam Saturday Evening Post cover, April 28, 1956

By Earl Mayan

Located in New Orleans, LA

With a career that spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post-WWII years, Earl Mayan's oeuvre presents a colorful snapshot of mid-20th century American life.

Category

Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Woman in Cubist Interior

Woman in Cubist Interior

By Alfred McNamara

Located in Los Angeles, CA

He also illustrated in part several popular pulp magazines of the pre-war period. During World War II, he served in the United States Air Force for four years, spending most of that ...

Category

1940s Cubist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Tax Forms Blues
Tax Forms Blues

Charles DyeTax Forms Blues

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H 17 in W 18 in

Tax Forms Blues

By Charles Dye

Located in Fort Washington, PA

He later sold pulp covers to Popular's Adventure Magazine and Argosy.

Category

Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

A Duryea Wagon Wins the Race, Great Moments in Early American Motoring
A Duryea Wagon Wins the Race, Great Moments in Early American Motoring

A Duryea Wagon Wins the Race, Great Moments in Early American Motoring

By Robert Lougheed

Located in Fort Washington, PA

From there, Lougheed headed for New York, supported himself by doing cover paintings for the Pulp magazines and studied at the Art Students League under Frank Vincent DuMond.

Category

Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Real Magazine Black Sox Sports Story Illustration

Real Magazine Black Sox Sports Story Illustration

By Norman Saunders

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Dimensions: 35.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Among celebrated illustrator Norm Saunders' most notable creations are his many lurid painted ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Poor Little Chorus Girl Shifting For Herself
Poor Little Chorus Girl Shifting For Herself

Poor Little Chorus Girl Shifting For Herself

By Carl Reed

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

" His work also appeared on other pulp magazines, including Football Action, Ace Sports, and Sports Action.

Category

1930s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil

US

Greg MillerUS, 2023

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H 36 in W 36 in D 1 in

US

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Double Down
Double Down

Greg MillerDouble Down, 2023

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H 48 in W 96 in D 1 in

Double Down

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

LOOK

Greg MillerLOOK, 2023

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H 48 in W 48 in D 1 in

LOOK

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

HOLIDAY

Greg MillerHOLIDAY, 2023

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H 36 in W 72 in D 1 in

HOLIDAY

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Lucky

Greg MillerLucky, 2023

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H 36 in W 36 in D 1 in

Lucky

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp fictions, comic books, magazine adds and cinema marquees figure in fractions across the canvas.

Category

2010s Pop Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

Gunner Dongieux, "Destroy All Monsters" (Large)
Gunner Dongieux, "Destroy All Monsters" (Large)

Gunner Dongieux, "Destroy All Monsters" (Large)

By Gunner Dongieux

Located in New Orleans, LA

It brings together imagery from pulp fiction magazines, Kaiju film posters, and computer generated abstractions made with artificial intelligence.

Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Love
Love

Greg MillerLove, 2017

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H 48 in W 48 in D 3 in

Love

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Meticulously sourced and collected over the years, Miller utilizes text and imagery culled from mid century magazines, pulp fiction and dime store novels. Immortalizing the ephemeral...

Category

2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Resin, Paper, Acrylic, Panel

West
West

Greg MillerWest, 2017

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H 70 in W 45 in D 3 in

West

By Greg Miller

Located in Santa Monica, CA

Meticulously sourced and collected over the years, Miller utilizes text and imagery culled from mid century magazines, pulp fiction and dime store novels. Immortalizing the ephemeral...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Resin, Paper, Acrylic, Panel

Secret Pattern I
Secret Pattern I

Ken PolinskieSecret Pattern I, 1986

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H 27 in W 21 in D 1.5 in

Secret Pattern I

By Ken Polinskie

Located in Surfside, FL

John Yau, Art Forum Magazine, Review, January 1989. Octavia Zaya, “Kenneth Polinskie: Ansiedades de la Memoria,” Balcon-3, 1989.

Category

20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Secret Pattern I
Secret Pattern I

Ken PolinskieSecret Pattern I, 1986

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H 27 in W 21 in D 1.5 in

Secret Pattern I

By Ken Polinskie

Located in Surfside, FL

John Yau, Art Forum Magazine, Review, January 1989. Octavia Zaya, “Kenneth Polinskie: Ansiedades de la Memoria,” Balcon-3, 1989.

Category

20th Century Mixed Media

KOI FUN, Original Painting
KOI FUN, Original Painting

KOI FUN, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Inspiration for his narratives comes from his father who was a pulp fiction writer. His loft studio in Leland, North Carolina, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Interior
Interior

Alfred McNamaraInterior, 1978

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H 30 in W 36 in D 5 in

Interior

By Alfred McNamara

Located in Los Angeles, CA

He also illustrated in part several popular pulp magazines of the pre-war period. During World War II, he served in the United States Air Force for four years, spending most of that ...

Category

1970s Cubist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

The Tracker
The Tracker

Remington SchuylerThe Tracker, 1926

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H 31 in W 27 in D 1 in

The Tracker

By Remington Schuyler

Located in Soquel, CA

He also painted cover illustrations for pulp magazines, such as Frontier Stories, Short Stories, and West.

Category

1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Beautiful Lady in White
A Beautiful Lady in White

A Beautiful Lady in White

Located in St. Albans, GB

By 1940, he had created more than 160 cover paintings for Western pulp magazines. During the summers, Mitchell continued to paint in the American Southwest and often invited his ment...

Category

1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

"Down Channel" Naturalistic Maritime Seascape of Ships Sailing on the Ocean
"Down Channel" Naturalistic Maritime Seascape of Ships Sailing on the Ocean

"Down Channel" Naturalistic Maritime Seascape of Ships Sailing on the Ocean

By Gordon Grant

Located in Houston, TX

He also painted portraits, streets, harbors, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s.

Category

1890s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bathing Group
Bathing Group

Bathing Group

By John Edward Costigan

Located in Sheffield, MA

During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at ...

Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern Girl Spicy Pulp Magazine Cover
Modern Girl Spicy Pulp Magazine Cover

Modern Girl Spicy Pulp Magazine Cover

By Cardwell Higgins

Located in Minneapolis, MN

We believe this to be a cover for a short lived publication titled Modern Girl Book Magazine which was essentially a bed-sheet sized spicy pulp publication with a very short run and ...

Category

1930s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Illustration Board, Pastel

15 Story Detective Pulp Cover
15 Story Detective Pulp Cover

15 Story Detective Pulp Cover

By Norman Saunders

Located in Minneapolis, MN

This striking and tense dramatic painting by Norman Saunders was created as cover art for the the October, 1950 issue of the pulp magazine 15 Story Detective; a Popular Publications ...

Category

1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Spicy Pulp Beer Hall Girl
Spicy Pulp Beer Hall Girl

Spicy Pulp Beer Hall Girl

By Earle K. Bergey

Located in Minneapolis, MN

A rare surviving oil on canvas pulp magazine cover painting by Earle K. Bergey for the August 1933 edition of Pep Stories; a spicy pulp title celebrating the lawless art deco era of ...

Category

1910s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Death Makes A Mistake
Death Makes A Mistake

Harold McCauleyDeath Makes A Mistake, 1943

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H 25.5 in W 21 in D 1 in

Death Makes A Mistake

By Harold McCauley

Located in Minneapolis, MN

A copy of the pulp magazine this illustration appeared in is included in the sale.

Category

1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Illustration Board

Lorence Bjorklund "Gun Shots of Skeleton Canyon", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Gun Shots of Skeleton Canyon", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Gun Shots of Skeleton Canyon", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Shawn of the Gun Pack", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Shawn of the Gun Pack", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Shawn of the Gun Pack", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "The Sheriff of Powder Rock", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "The Sheriff of Powder Rock", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "The Sheriff of Powder Rock", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Don Hurricane", original ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Don Hurricane", original ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Don Hurricane", original ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

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1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "A Gun Lawyer for CJ", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "A Gun Lawyer for CJ", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "A Gun Lawyer for CJ", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

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1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Smokey Serenade", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Smokey Serenade", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Smokey Serenade", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

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1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Gold Robbers of Cutthroat Gulch", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Gold Robbers of Cutthroat Gulch", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Gold Robbers of Cutthroat Gulch", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

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1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Sonny Tabor's Silver Handcuffs", ink on illustration board
Lorence Bjorklund "Sonny Tabor's Silver Handcuffs", ink on illustration board

Lorence Bjorklund "Sonny Tabor's Silver Handcuffs", ink on illustration board

By Lorence Bjorklund

Located in Glenview, IL

During those years he began to support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations.

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1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Fear
Fear

P.J. MonahanFear, 1920s

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H 27.5 in W 25 in

Fear

By P.J. Monahan

Located in Minneapolis, MN

Monahan--this was likely created as cover art for an as-of-yet-unidentified pulp magazine. A flapper girl damsel in distress in dramatic light and shadow recoils as she attempts to f...

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1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Spawn of Doom
Spawn of Doom

Lloyd BirminghamSpawn of Doom, 1961

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H 23.5 in W 18.75 in

Spawn of Doom

By Lloyd Birmingham

Located in Minneapolis, MN

This original gouache pulp magazine cover painting by Lloyd Birmingham which appeared as the cover for the December 1961 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination illustrates the Dan...

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1960s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Imagination Magazine Pin Up Girl Pulp Cover
Imagination Magazine Pin Up Girl Pulp Cover

Imagination Magazine Pin Up Girl Pulp Cover

By Harold McCauley

Located in Minneapolis, MN

A published copy of the magazine is included with sale. Signed LR. Sight size 22" x 30" Framed 25 3/4" x 33 3/4"

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1950s Pop Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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Located in Miami, FL

DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be on one of its covers. The e...

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1970s Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

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Exotic - Scottish 1920's exhibited 'Glasgow Girl' art portrait oil painting

Located in Hagley, England

This stunning much exhibited 1920's Scottish portrait oil painting is by noted Glasgow Girl artist Norah Nielson Gray. Painted circa 1923, the model for the painting was Rita McIlrai...

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1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

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Oil

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My Lady of the Rose Portrait of Hilda, the Artist's Wife - British oil painting

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Located in Hagley, England

This superb British exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson. The influence of Lord Frederick Leighton and the Italian Renaissance can easily be seen....

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1910s Pre-Raphaelite Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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Fossilised Skull of Prehistoric Marine Reptile the Mosasaur, 70Million Years Ago

$23,634Sale Price|30% Off

H 6.3 in W 15.75 in D 5.91 in

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Located in Puglia, Puglia

Upper Cretaceous, about 70-65 million years ago (Maastrichtian) Morocco The skull is reconstructed in good proportions with fossil pieces found in a phosphate mine in Morocco. I att...

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Antique 15th Century and Earlier African Natural Specimens

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Bone

"The Boy, Moses" illustration for Children of the Bible in Good Housekeeping
"The Boy, Moses" illustration for Children of the Bible in Good Housekeeping

"The Boy, Moses" illustration for Children of the Bible in Good Housekeeping

By Newell Convers Wyeth

Located in Fort Washington, PA

The present work was reproduced as an illustration for Bruce Barton's story "The Boy Who Established a Nation," published in the February 1929 issue of Good Housekeeping. Part of an ...

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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Henriette Chabot with Peonies
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Henriette Chabot with Peonies

By Jacques Emile Blanche

Located in Mc Lean, VA

This painting was owned by Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Paris Literature: Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (2012), pg. 47 (color illus.), p. 191. Included as no. R...

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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for Butterfly Couple, Study for Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement
Study for Butterfly Couple, Study for Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement

Study for Butterfly Couple, Study for Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement

By Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Located in Fort Washington, PA

A stunning study for a 1920s Kuppenheimer clothing advertisement featuring a fashionably-dressed couple kneeling in an embrace before a pair of colorful butterfly wings. The prolific...

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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pierre Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret
Pierre Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret

Pierre Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret

By Pierre Auguste Renoir

Located in Los Angeles, CA

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919) Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret bears signature (lower left) oil on canvas 17 15/16 x 14 3/4 in (45.5 x 37.4 cm) Painted between 1862-1863 Footn...

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1860s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting
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Flemish 17th, Orpheus and Animals, Large Decorative Wall Old Master Painting

Located in Greven, DE

Flemish school, 17th century Orpheus and the animals Oil on canvas, 146,5 x 217 cm Provenance: South German private collection. On an impressive, room-filling format, this painting ...

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17th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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The Garden Near Cailhau By Achille Laugé

By Achille Laugé

Located in New Orleans, LA

Achille Laugé 1861-1944 French The Garden Near Cailhau Signed "A. Laugé 96" (lower left) Oil on canvas “Laugé’s art is one of great sensitivity and controlled reason; he is a mas...

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19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"A Surprising Visit"  19th Century Antique European  Oil Painting on Canvas
"A Surprising Visit"  19th Century Antique European  Oil Painting on Canvas

"A Surprising Visit" 19th Century Antique European Oil Painting on Canvas

By Eduardo Leon Garrido

Located in Jacksonville, FL

A Surprising Visit" by Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) invites viewers into a sumptuous journey through 19th-century European luxury. Eduardo León Garrido, a distinguished ...

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19th Century Academic Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ondine
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Pierre Marcel-BéronneauOndine, 1816-1918

$49,850

H 35.25 in W 30.13 in

Ondine

By Pierre Marcel-Béronneau

Located in New Orleans, LA

Mystical and mysterious, a mythological Ondine rests beside an ethereal forest pond in this majestic, original oil on canvas by French Symbolist Pierre-Amédée Marcel-Béronneau. A stu...

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20th Century Symbolist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boeckhorst, Rubens, Saint Ursula, Decorative Old Master, Woman, Baroque, Flemish
Boeckhorst, Rubens, Saint Ursula, Decorative Old Master, Woman, Baroque, Flemish

Boeckhorst, Rubens, Saint Ursula, Decorative Old Master, Woman, Baroque, Flemish

By Jan Boeckhorst

Located in Greven, DE

Johann Boeckhorst (Münster 1604 - Antwerp 1668) Saint Ursula Oil on canvas, 112 x 86 cm Provenance: New York, Christe's, 20.3.1981, lot 88 (as Van Diepenbeeck's circle) The presen...

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17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Strawberries Strewn on a Forest Floor
Strawberries Strewn on a Forest Floor

Strawberries Strewn on a Forest Floor

By William Mason Brown

Located in New York, NY

William Mason Brown was born in Troy, New York, where he studied for several years with local artists, including the leading portraitist there, Abel Buel Moore. In 1850, he moved to ...

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19th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene Artwork Aurora in white toga smelling a flower.
Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene Artwork Aurora in white toga smelling a flower.

Goddess of Dawn Mythology scene Artwork Aurora in white toga smelling a flower.

By Jean Louis Hamon

Located in Miami, FL

Jean Louis Hamon artfully presents the mythological subject: Aurora the Goddess of Dawn. She is dressed in a flowing toga, standing on a large leaf and smelling the sweetness of a fl...

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1860s Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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