Framed and matted behind glass in handsome gallery frame Corner frame profile Marked on verso design #1, beautifully matted and framed from the estate of Paul MacAlister. Both evoking and critiquing the sordid and semi-underground world of Depression-era girlie shows, the artwork lures the viewer into the underbelly of the city that is explored in the nine images that follow. In this work, the first of the series and the image that was to greet visitors as they entered the room, a nude showgirl dancer does a sad burlesque, her shadow duplicated in silhouette in a Coney Island funhouse style. We are offering the complete series of ten original concept paintings, each illustrating a nude underworld goddess in sordid intimate engagement with manifestations of modernism, industry and the machine age. By the following year Blaine was under extensive psychiatric care and dropped completely out of the public eye for the better part of a decade. It’s unlikely Blaine or MacAlister ever truly expected the murals to be completed, but perhaps he did. Blaine treated each individual painting in the series as its own completed stand alone artwork, with painstaking detail. Offering a dark and pessimistically erotic commentary on the skyscraper landscape that was taking over Manhattan, it’s unclear if Blaine and MacAlister believed these murals would ever be approved, or if the preliminary artworks were exclusively created as an oblique social satire. Christopher Hudson created a series of illustrations which were intended to become murals for the studio or showroom of noted New York City interior designer Paul MacAlister. In the late 1930s, avant-garde illustrator Mahlon Blaine, working under the pseudonym G. Because sometimes, your trip ends before the in-flight movie does, and you really don’t want to ask the pilot to circle the airport just so you can catch the finale.Full view of gouache painting The artist’s initial lower left for “G.Because sometimes, you fall asleep watching a mediocre rental, and would rather return it on time than pay two more bucks just to see the end.
Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was.Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film.
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