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"Stuck in the Membrane of Illusion" Abstract Relief Sculpture
"Stuck in the Membrane of Illusion" Abstract Relief Sculpture

"Stuck in the Membrane of Illusion" Abstract Relief Sculpture

Located in Soquel, CA

Such as: paint, resin, beads, sea glass, coral, photographic prints, paper pulp, and reeds. The centerpiece of the sculpture is a raised and carved piece of wood resembling the head ...

Category

1990s Outsider Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Handmade Paper, Glass, Resin

Rare American Western Sculpture “Desert Rat” (1928) by J. Clinton Shepherd
Rare American Western Sculpture “Desert Rat” (1928) by J. Clinton Shepherd

Rare American Western Sculpture “Desert Rat” (1928) by J. Clinton Shepherd

By Gorham CO.

Located in Shippensburg, PA

The Great Depression shifted his work to pulp magazine covers, and he created illustrations for Popular Publications and Blue Book during the 1930s.

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20th Century American Vintage Pulps

Materials

Bronze

The Audience
The Audience

The Audience

By Michael Snow

Located in Toronto, Ontario

The sculpture itself was unveiled in 1989 when the SkyDome was opened. This work, a paper pulp cast relief, is an intimate version of the legendary sculpture.

Category

1980s Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

Crystal Glass Vase made and signed by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s
Crystal Glass Vase made and signed by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s

Crystal Glass Vase made and signed by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s

By Bengt Edenfalk, Skruf

Located in Skarpnäck, SE

The production has mainly consisted of tableware and ornamental glass in potassium and full crystal pulp. The glassworks were closed down in 1981.

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1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Crystal

Confetti Hex
Confetti Hex

Confetti Hex

By Sam Gilliam

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Gilliam also experimented with textiles, shaped canvases, paper pulp and hand-made papers presenting these materials through wrapping, crunching and layering frequently in asymmetric...

Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Pulps

Materials

Textile, Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media

The Year of the Tempest
The Year of the Tempest

The Year of the Tempest

By Raymond Johnson

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Original pulp paperback cover for The Year of the Tempest by Peter Matthiessen, published by Bantam, New York, 1957 (Bantam #A1578).

Category

1950s Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled
Untitled

Untitled

By Beverly Pepper

Located in Toronto, Ontario

Tullis introduced Pepper to making monotypes with molds and paper pulp. Pepper created a small number of (true to form) oversized monoprints.

Category

1980s Constructivist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Monoprint

Roy Lichtenstein Leo Castelli gallery 1969 (announcement)
Roy Lichtenstein Leo Castelli gallery 1969 (announcement)

Roy Lichtenstein Leo Castelli gallery 1969 (announcement)

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in NEW YORK, NY

By the early 1960s, he had begun showing with Leo Castelli gallery in New York, and made major breakthroughs with works such as Drowning Girl (1963), a satirical take on melodramatic...

Category

1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Offset

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

Signed Herman H.b. Vestal (1916-2007) Watercolor Painting Nautical Seascape
Signed Herman H.b. Vestal (1916-2007) Watercolor Painting Nautical Seascape

Signed Herman H.b. Vestal (1916-2007) Watercolor Painting Nautical Seascape

Located in West Chester, PA

In 1947 his pen and ink story illustrations began to appear in pulp magazines produced by Fiction House Publications, such as Action Stories, All-America Football, Baseball Stories, ...

Category

1960s American Other Vintage Pulps

Materials

Wood, Paint, Paper

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A ray of light in the forest - Surreal Man in Surreal Landscape
A ray of light in the forest - Surreal Man in Surreal Landscape

A ray of light in the forest - Surreal Man in Surreal Landscape

By Hector Garrido

Located in Miami, FL

He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and covers for the Destroyer series.

Category

1970s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Acrylic

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil

Apache

Apache

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Purple Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s, Signed and Dated
Purple Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s, Signed and Dated

Purple Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s, Signed and Dated

By Skruf, Bengt Edenfalk

Located in Skarpnäck, SE

The production has mainly consisted of tableware and ornamental glass in potassium and full crystal pulp. The glassworks were closed down in 1981.

Category

1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Art Glass

Bullfighter

Bullfighter

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Pan from Behind

Pan from Behind

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Blue Boy

Blue Boy

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Grand Finale Lobby Card Limited Edition Cel, 1980s Pop Art, 17x21\"
Grand Finale Lobby Card Limited Edition Cel, 1980s Pop Art, 17x21\"

Grand Finale Lobby Card Limited Edition Cel, 1980s Pop Art, 17x21\"

By Juan Ortiz

Located in Los Angeles, CA

He is also the publisher of his own comic book series, Silver Comics, seen in the Disney/Dreamworks release I Am Number Four (produced by Steven Spielberg) as well as The Skull Army,...

Category

1980s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Original "The Lion" US 1 sheet vintage movie poster  1963
Original "The Lion" US 1 sheet vintage movie poster  1963

Original "The Lion" US 1 sheet vintage movie poster 1963

Located in Spokane, WA

Linen backing on American posters is recommended because most of them were printed on a wood pulp paper which easily falls apart. "Only a brave man goes after the lion ...

Category

1960s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Offset

Circle I
Circle I

Circle I

By Kenneth Noland

Located in Toronto, Ontario

The work is composed of five layers of colored pulp with elements of lithography printing. Regardless of medium, Noland was always presenting the dynamism of how color interacts wit...

Category

Late 20th Century Color-Field Vintage Pulps

Materials

Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Monotype

Classic Western Lariat Style Cowgirl / Cowboy Hat by Iconic Stetson Hat Co Texas
Classic Western Lariat Style Cowgirl / Cowboy Hat by Iconic Stetson Hat Co Texas

Classic Western Lariat Style Cowgirl / Cowboy Hat by Iconic Stetson Hat Co Texas

By Stetson

Located in Incline Village, NV

The artist who created the illustration on top of the box and in the hat well interior, was Lon Megargee, who designed western images for periodicals, pulp magazines, and other print...

Category

1990s American American Craftsman Vintage Pulps

Materials

Animal Skin, Fur

Hand Signed Pyramid Three Dimensional Screen Print, Edition 41/300, 1974
Hand Signed Pyramid Three Dimensional Screen Print, Edition 41/300, 1974

Hand Signed Pyramid Three Dimensional Screen Print, Edition 41/300, 1974

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Aventura, FL

By the early 1960s, he had begun showing with Leo Castelli gallery in New York, and made major breakthroughs with works such as Drowning Girl (1963), a satirical take on melodramatic...

Category

1960s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper, Lithograph, Screen

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Monoprint

Signed Norman Rockwell Style Painting of Golfers by Victor Olson
Signed Norman Rockwell Style Painting of Golfers by Victor Olson

Signed Norman Rockwell Style Painting of Golfers by Victor Olson

Located in Redding, CT

He has illustrated many national pulp magazine covers for paperback publications and magazine stories for such publishers as Doubleday, Avon Books, MacFadden Books, Bantan and Monarch.

Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas

'Face/Off' Original British Double Crown Movie Poster, 1997
'Face/Off' Original British Double Crown Movie Poster, 1997

'Face/Off' Original British Double Crown Movie Poster, 1997

Located in Devon, GB

With Travolta enjoying a post 'Pulp Fiction' career resurgence and Cage fresh from big blockbuster action flicks 'The Rock' and 'Con Air,' the two stars were such hot property in 199...

Category

Late 20th Century British Post-Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Paper

"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper
"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper

"Unicorn Moebius II" - Trial Proof Lithograph in Ink on Laid Paper

By Bruce Weinberg

Located in Soquel, CA

These papers were free flowing colored cotton pulps, beautifully textured with repeat patterns or marbleized, sometimes enhanced with gold, silver and copper leaf.

Category

1980s American Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Laid Paper, Lithograph

Love in the Mist, Magazine Illustration
Love in the Mist, Magazine Illustration

Love in the Mist, Magazine Illustration

By Tom Lovell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

He was a Freelance illustrator for many well-known magazines including Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and become known as a pulp illustrator. His work depicting life in the o...

Category

1950s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board, Oil

Original "Me Travel?  not this summer  Vacation At Home vintage poster  1945
Original "Me Travel?  not this summer  Vacation At Home vintage poster  1945

Original "Me Travel? not this summer Vacation At Home vintage poster 1945

By Albert Dorne 1

Located in Spokane, WA

Linen-backed to preserve the wood pulp paper used in printing these World War 2 posters Antique posters are 'pictures of persuasion,' as we might call them, offering a wealth of art...

Category

1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Offset

Untitled (Poison)

Untitled (Poison)

By Richard Bosman

Located in New York, NY

In the early 1980s, Bosman heralded the return of representation with dramatic paintings that recalled the drama and dark romance of sensationalist crime photography and pulp fiction...

Category

Late 20th Century Vintage Pulps

Materials

Linocut

Original "Men Working Together" vintage 1942 poster  horizontal  WWII
Original "Men Working Together" vintage 1942 poster  horizontal  WWII

Original "Men Working Together" vintage 1942 poster horizontal WWII

Located in Spokane, WA

Linen backing is important for all World War 2 posters because they were folded and also because most were printed on an inexpensive wood-pulp paper and degraded quickly! This post...

Category

1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Offset

Valentine

Valentine

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Huck Finn

Huck Finn

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Big Orange Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s
Big Orange Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s

Big Orange Glass Vase by Bengt Edenfalk for Skruf, Sweden, 1970s

By Skruf, Bengt Edenfalk

Located in Skarpnäck, SE

The production has mainly consisted of tableware and ornamental glass in potassium and full crystal pulp. The glassworks were closed down in 1981.

Category

1970s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Art Glass

Original Buy Bonds Every Payday vintage World War 2 vintage poster
Original Buy Bonds Every Payday vintage World War 2 vintage poster

Original Buy Bonds Every Payday vintage World War 2 vintage poster

By Martha Sawyers

Located in Spokane, WA

Linen backing on USA posters after World War 1 is necessary because the paper used for printing was normally wood pulp paper that falls apart, just like your daily newspaper.

Category

1940s American Realist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Offset

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board

Pan

Pan

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Pink Flowers, Water Colors

Pink Flowers, Water Colors

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Pearl, Water Colors

Pearl, Water Colors

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Willow Tree

Willow Tree

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Cadet

Cadet

By James Bidgood

Located in New York, NY

The artist was the first to take the pulp and glamour aesthetic of the 1940s and 1950s and apply it to male erotic fantasies: employing vibrant colors and exaggerated props and costu...

Category

1960s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

C Print

Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover
Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover

Memoirs Of Casanova, Paperback Cover

By Tom Lovell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

He was a Freelance illustrator for many well-known magazines including Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post and become known as a pulp illustrator. His work depicting life in the o...

Category

1950s Other Art Style Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board, Oil

The Gods of Voodoo
The Gods of Voodoo

The Gods of Voodoo

By Harold McCauley

Located in Fort Washington, PA

In this offering a dancing pin up girl levitates oblivious to the black magic and darkness that lurks in the background where a goat is about to get sacrificed in a voodoo ritualisti...

Category

1950s Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

New Sealed Scott Paper Caper Black and White Op Art Paper Dress – S, 1966
New Sealed Scott Paper Caper Black and White Op Art Paper Dress – S, 1966

New Sealed Scott Paper Caper Black and White Op Art Paper Dress – S, 1966

Located in Tucson, AZ

fabric: “Dura Weave” wood pulp and rayon-coated opaque “padded” paper noteworthy: do not wash or wet; after wearing turn inside out and hang outdoors; dress was marketed as disposabl...

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1960s American Vintage Pulps

A Life (B) R.B. Kitaj Film noir night city scene of woman in red dress
A Life (B) R.B. Kitaj Film noir night city scene of woman in red dress

A Life (B) R.B. Kitaj Film noir night city scene of woman in red dress

By Ronald Brooks Kitaj

Located in New York, NY

The composition of A Life is based on Kitaj’s pastel work Femme de Peuple II, and a pulp novel’s salacious cover. Known for his expressive style and charged imagery, Kitaj went aga...

Category

Late 20th Century Expressionist Vintage Pulps

Materials

Lithograph

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Victor Olson Impasto Oil on Board of Arabs
Victor Olson Impasto Oil on Board of Arabs

Victor Olson Impasto Oil on Board of Arabs

Located in Redding, CT

He is famous for his racy pulp fiction art. One of Mr. Olson's paintings of the founder of Sikorsky Aircraft, Igor Sikorsky's portrait, belongs to the Smithsonian Institute Air and S...

Category

1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pulps

Materials

Wood, Paint

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Oil, Board

Bands
Bands

Bands

By Kenneth Noland

Located in Toronto, Ontario

This evocative work is composed of alternating bands of pastel colors with paper pulp exposed between the bands. Here, Noland challenges the strict geometric lines that defined his m...

Category

1980s Color-Field Vintage Pulps

Materials

Handmade Paper, Monoprint

Vintage Gilded Syroco Hollywood Regency Double Candle Wall Sconces a Pair
Vintage Gilded Syroco Hollywood Regency Double Candle Wall Sconces a Pair

Vintage Gilded Syroco Hollywood Regency Double Candle Wall Sconces a Pair

By Syroco

Located in Topeka, KS

Syroco was best known for molded wood-pulp interior decorations and gift and novelty items that resembled hand-carving.

Category

Mid-20th Century American Hollywood Regency Vintage Pulps

Materials

Plastic

“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 Vintage Pulps

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bedroom, Huge Hand Signed Woodcut and Screen Print, Pop Art, Edition 37/60
Bedroom, Huge Hand Signed Woodcut and Screen Print, Pop Art, Edition 37/60

Bedroom, Huge Hand Signed Woodcut and Screen Print, Pop Art, Edition 37/60

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Aventura, FL

By the early 1960s, he had begun showing with Leo Castelli gallery in New York, and made major breakthroughs with works such as Drowning Girl (1963), a satirical take on melodramatic...

Category

1990s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Board, Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut

Painting in Gold Frame, Large Hand Signed Screen Print, Edition 47/60, 1984
Painting in Gold Frame, Large Hand Signed Screen Print, Edition 47/60, 1984

Painting in Gold Frame, Large Hand Signed Screen Print, Edition 47/60, 1984

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Aventura, FL

By the early 1960s, he had begun showing with Leo Castelli gallery in New York, and made major breakthroughs with works such as Drowning Girl (1963), a satirical take on melodramatic...

Category

1980s Pop Art Vintage Pulps

Materials

Lithograph, Screen, Woodcut, Paper

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Vintage Pulps For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of vintage pulps available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct vintage pulps — often made from paper — can elevate any home. There are all kinds of vintage pulps available, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 20th Century. Barye Phillips produced beautiful vintage pulps that are worth considering.

How Much are Vintage Pulps?

Vintage pulps can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,037, while the lowest priced sells for $519 and the highest can go for as much as $3,500.