The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine Illustration, February 1931
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine Illustration, February 1931
Oil
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.
Gouache, Illustration Board
$12,500
Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Miami, FL
DeSoto did pulp covers up until the industry's demise in the 1950s for such magazines as Adventure, Argosy, Black Mask, Captain Zero, Crack Detective, Fantastic Novels, 15-Story Det...
Oil, Board
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.
Paper, Gouache
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...
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Gouache, Board, Pencil
"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.
Canvas, Oil
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.
Color, Digital, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Screen
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.
Canvas, Oil
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...
Gouache
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.
Mixed Media, Watercolor
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.
Canvas, Oil
Original American WWII 1944 Poster by Stoop - Careless Talk Got There First
By Herbert Morton Stoops
Located in Boca Raton, FL
His most notable body of illustrations and artwork was for the Blue Book, a literary pulp magazine. He served in World War I as a First Lieutenant and released a book of his illustra...
Lithograph
“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...
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Board, Oil
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...
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
"The Equestrian" Gene Pressler, Countryside Setting, American Society Portrait
By Gene Pressler
Located in New York, NY
Much of this magazine work is superb, but has remained largely unknown because it was created for magazines that are seldom seen today (such as the pulp magazines Romance, Saucy Stor...
Canvas, Pastel
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...
Monoprint
"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...
Etching
Original Saturday Evening Poster Newsstand 1940 vintage poster linen-backed
Located in Spokane, WA
He gained early recognition for painting pulp magazine covers, including iconic images for the Doc Savage series.
Offset
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...
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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.
Board
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.
Canvas, Oil
$21,500
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.
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
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.
Oil
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 ...
Canvas, Oil
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.
Mixed Media
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.
Lithograph
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...
Canvas, Oil
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 ...
Oil
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...
Gouache
$5,000
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...
Oil, Board
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.
Lithograph
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 ...
Oil
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 ...
Oil
Unavailable|$259
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.
Ink
Unavailable|$145
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.
Ink
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...
Oil
Unavailable|$2,800
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.
Oil
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.
Paper, Watercolor
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.
Paper, Watercolor
Sold|$12,000
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...
Gouache, Board
Sold|$3,900
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.
Canvas, Oil
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...
Canvas, Oil
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
Canvas, Oil
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.
Board, Oil
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
Oil, Mixed Media, Board
"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...
Oil
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.
Oil
Sold|$50,000
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.
Oil, Board
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.
Oil, Board
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 ...
Oil, Panel
Sold|$10,450
Tax Forms Blues
By Charles Dye
Located in Fort Washington, PA
He later sold pulp covers to Popular's Adventure Magazine and Argosy.
Board, Oil
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.
Board, Oil
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 ...
Paper, Mixed Media
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.
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil
Sold|$14,500
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.
Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper
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