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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

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

Skating
Skating

John DrewSkating, 1920s

Unavailable|$7,000

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

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

untitled
untitled

Gordon Grantuntitled

Unavailable|$3,500

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

untitled
untitled

Gordon Grantuntitled

Unavailable|$3,500

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

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

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

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

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