Thanks to all our buyers! We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changed assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great items. All sell !ITEM: This is a vintage and original, very large, framed gouache on board illustration art painting. Housed behind plexiglass in a wood frame, this exquisitely colored painting was an interior illustration for a story in the September 9, 1951 issue of The American Weekly. This is not signed, but this piece is identified in the publication as the work of the artist Louis Bernard and was part of a serial on the evolution of man, specificially an article titled \"Man\'s Earliest Art\". We have another painting by Jules Gotlieb from this series on our main gallery page titled “Indigenous Life” that follows this serial storyline from the November, 25 1951 issue of The American Weekly.This painting features a family of early human cave dwellers who can be seen painting the walls with images of the beasts they encounter on their daily hunts. A clipping from The American Weekly that is adhered to the verso reads, “Early man often covered the walls of caves with colorful paintings of the beasts he saw in the forest and on the plains around him.”A bold, colorful, and vibrant piece of classic, mid-century illustration art.Measures a complete framed 47 1/2\" x 31\" with an image sight size of 37 1/4\" x 21\"Grapefruit Moon Gallery has recently come into a collection of vintage 1940s - 1980s original, commissioned paper back cover art and magazine illustration art, much in a midcentury, post-war, pulp action aesthetic. These paperback cover paintings borrow from and expand upon the style and iconography of lurid and spicy pulp fiction illustrations. Damsels in distress and noir crime scenes abound in these striking illustrations. Recently, there has been a burgeoning interest in illustration art and we are brash enough to sell this collection on in a sale format.CONDITION: This original, one of a kind, illustration painting is in excellent condition. Housed in a wood frame behind plexiglass with hanging wire this piece is ready to display. Please use the included images as a conditional guide. Paypal Buyers Are Invited To grapefruitmoongallery\'s Fresh sale Weekly Newsletter