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The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
process of committing an art heist. The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine Illustration, February
Category

1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pulp Magazine Marine Combat Scene Shoot Out in Blue Noir
Located in Miami, FL
,before establishing himself as a cover illustrator for 1950s paperbacks and pulp magazines such as Argosy
Category

1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

Sexy Woman in a Swamp Storm - Pulp Magazine, Hispanic Artist, Mid Century
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Miami, FL
drama in the swamp. Woman in the Swamp is a masterfully executed example of Pulp Art and showcases
Category

1950s Academic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Original 1913 Motor Age Magazine Cover Art Illustration
By Clinton Pettee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
pulp magazines and is best known for his illustration on the cover of the October 1912 issue of The All
Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Lifeguard, Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, Mat Kauten was selling realistic cover designs to the pulp magazines. He got into trouble as a
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Street Violinist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
illustrations for Street & Smith's western pulp magazines. In 1932 he began to sell freelance cover paintings to
Category

1970s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Soldier Shooting Gun with Bikini Girls, Mid-Century Mens Magazine War
By Mort Künstler
Located in Miami, FL
the action pulp magazine. Signed lower right and signed on titled, dated on verso with a revision from
Category

1960s Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

"Pleading with the Umpire"
By Gayle Porter Hoskins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Bazaar until he transitioned into Pulp magazines following the stock market crash. Later in his career he
Category

Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

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
Category

2010s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Digital, Color, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Screen

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

Formal Affair
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
western, and nature to family affairs. His first illustrations were created for pulp magazines when he
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Western TEXAS FAMILY REUNION watercolor mixed media
Located in New York, NY
, & Monte Crews. Began as an illustrator of western pulp magazines. Work includes more than 200 covers for
Category

1970s American Impressionist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Watercolor

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
Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Mixed Media, Board

“She had taken an enormous fancy to the girl” illustration for Harper’s Monthly
By Gayle Porter Hoskins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
for his captivating outdoor and Western scenes, which graced the covers of numerous pulp magazines
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Secret Project
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustrations for the Pulp magazines. He illustrated his first major manuscript for The Country Gentleman in
Category

1940s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Cosmo No.2, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Colortique No. 3, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

PenPals, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Jamica Bay, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
was a pulp fiction writer. His loft studio in Leland, North Carolina, houses his archive of pulp
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

On the Boulevard, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Catch a Wave, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
was a pulp fiction writer. His loft studio in Leland, North Carolina, houses his archive of pulp
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Boat in Tulum, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, North Carolina, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Red Parrot, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Surreal Road, Monument Valley, Sci-fi Photography, Science Fiction
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
- 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul. Virgil Finlay
Category

1970s Surrealist Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sonora, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
, houses his archive of pulp magazines and stories from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. "My workspace is
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

1969 Monoprint by H. Lawrence Hoffman, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Professor of Art at C.W. Post University (1967–1976). Hoffman began his career doing drawings for the pulp
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Monoprint

"November Morning, " Original Etching signed by Churchill Ettinger
By Churchill Ettinger
Located in Milwaukee, WI
of pulp magazines. An avid outdoorsman, Ettinger was commissioned by top sporting magazines to
Category

1940s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Three Oval Glows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
- 1940’s saw the imaginative but crudely drawn pulp magazine gouaches of Frank R Paul. Virgil Finlay
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Untitled (Couple with Seascape)
By Peter Stevens
Located in Cliffside Park, NJ
freelance pulp covers to Popular Publication's magazine Argosy. It is remarkable that at that same time, his
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board

The Return Of The Four, All Around Magazine Cover
By Newell Convers Wyeth
Located in Fort Washington, PA
36.00" All Around Magazine, Dec 1915. #872 in N.C. Wyeth Catalouge Raisonne 2008 This rare pulp
Category

1910s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

TRUTH
By Greg Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
with poignant slices of Americana. Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp
Category

2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

TRUTH
TRUTH
H 48 in W 48 in D 1 in
Christmas Scene, Maxwell Coffee Advertisement
By Walter Martin Baumhofer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
, "Home for Christmas..." (1945) For years, Walter Martin Baumhofer painted cover designs for the Pulps
Category

1940s Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hospital Visit
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
the time, he got his first freelance illustration assignments from the pulp fiction world, doing
Category

1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Bathing Group
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

UP
By Greg Miller
Located in Santa Monica, CA
with poignant slices of Americana. Nostalgic nods to ubiquitous tropes, such as billboards, pulp
Category

2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

UP
UP
H 48 in W 48 in D 1 in
The Well Meaning Kidnapper
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
got his first freelance illustration assignments from the pulp fiction world, doing inside magazine
Category

1950s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Man Leading Horse
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
pulp fiction world, doing inside magazine illustrations for Street & Smith Publications in New York. In
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Hunters
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
many illustrators of the time, he got his first freelance illustration assignments from the pulp
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Hunters
Hunters
H 17.5 in W 25.5 in
"Child of the Terror" Saturday Evening Post Illustration, February 1, 1941
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustration assignments from the pulp fiction world, doing inside magazine illustrations for Street & Smith
Category

Mid-20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal

Work and Play
By Gordon Grant
Located in Missouri, MO
, beaches and marines, and was an illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Work and Play
Work and Play
H 18 in W 20.5 in D 1 in
Secret Pattern I
By Ken Polinskie
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery Hand Papermaking Magazine “Art of Pulp Painting” edition portfolio, 1 of 17
Category

20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Secret Pattern I
Secret Pattern I
H 27 in W 21 in D 1.5 in
Bathers
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bathing Group
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lorence Bjorklund "Trail Bros", ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
support himself as an illustrator in the western pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior
Category

1950s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Lorence Bjorklund "Fight Back or Die", original ink on illustration board
By Lorence Bjorklund
Located in Glenview, IL
pulp magazine industry by drawing pen and ink interior story illustrations. During a long and
Category

1940s Other Art Style Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Skating
By John Drew
Located in Minneapolis, MN
to Street & Smith's pulp magazine Sea Stories. By 1928 he was selling interior illustrations and
Category

1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Skating
Skating
H 47 in W 33 in D 3 in
The Rabbis
By Samuel George Cahan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1930s his drawings appeared as chapter headings in the pulp magazine Argosy. In 1936 he visited France
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

untitled
By Gordon Grant
Located in Coral Gables, FL
illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s. Skilled with
Category

Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

untitled
untitled
H 21 in W 28 in
untitled
By Gordon Grant
Located in Coral Gables, FL
illustrator, whose work included pulp fiction* for Popular Detective magazine in the 1930s. Skilled with
Category

Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

untitled
untitled
H 21 in W 28 in
Noir Pulp Magazine, Dead Man in the Snow, Mid Century, Latin Art Hispanic Artist
By Rafael DeSoto
Located in Miami, FL
conquistador, Hernando de Soto - In 1932 he began to sell freelance cover paintings to pulp magazines, such as
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Pulp Illustration
By H.W. Kiemle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
of the pulp magazine Wild West Stories and Complete Novel Magazine. Over the next ten years his
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Path to Plunder
By Sidney Harry Riesenberg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
to Plunder, Western Story pulp magazine cover, March 17, 1928
Category

1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Big Catch, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover
By Charles Dye
Located in Fort Washington, PA
assignments were interior story illustrations for the western pulp magazines published by Popular Publications
Category

1950s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Landscape"
By Paul Frederick Berdanier
Located in Southampton, NY
advertising artist in the 1920’s and illustrated pulp magazine in the 1930’s. Berdanier worked on various
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Explorer oil on canvas by Ed DeLavy
Located in Paonia, CO
variety of of pulp magazines such as Detective Novel, Exciting Western. Five-Novels,Giant Western,The
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Watchers, Dakota Indians
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
compositions required of pulp magazine illustrations. His paintings often have more stable (even static
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Traffic Jam Saturday Evening Post cover, April 28, 1956
By Earl Mayan
Located in New Orleans, LA
sometimes bring. With a career that spanned the era of pulp magazines to the post-WWII years, Earl Mayan's
Category

Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Woman in Cubist Interior
By Alfred McNamara
Located in Los Angeles, CA
pulp magazines of the pre-war period. During World War II, he served in the United States Air Force for
Category

1940s Cubist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Tax Forms Blues
By Charles Dye
Located in Fort Washington, PA
illustrations for the western pulp magazines published by Popular Publications. He later sold pulp covers to
Category

Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

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