Photographs & Print

Welcome to Grapefruit Moon Gallery's collection of photographs and prints. Here you will find original vintage silver gelatin photographs from the 1920's and 1930's, depicting Silent Movie-era starlets and Ziegfeld Follies showgirls. In addition, you will find rare original posters from the Belle Époque as well as original artist etchings, pochoirs, and hard-to-find coveted antique prints.

Golden Gallery featured pieces
jean harlow, nude, hesser
Jean Harlow Nude at Griffith Park
Edwin Bower Hesser

joan crawford, jazz age, flapper, hollywood
Joan Crawford as Flapper Jazz Baby
Ruth Harriet Louise

Recently Added to Photographs & Print
Clara Bow
George P Hommel (1929)
A spectacular 1929 image of Clara Bow from the pinnacle of her it girl stardom in a wild jazz age headscarf with streamlined modernist style, by George Hommel. Bow's wizened eyes and cupid feature captured the nihilism and eroticism of the Lost generation, as well as the heart of the American moviegoing public, and vintage original stills of her remain highly collectible.

Jean Harlow Nude - A Woodland Nymph
Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)
An original 4" by 5" sepia photograph of Hollywood legend Jean Harlow posed near nude at Los Angeles' Griffith park in 1929 as a spirited forest nymph. An original first generation gelatin silver antique photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken and developed by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

Jean Harlow as a Spring Sprite
Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)
An original 4" by 5" sepia photograph of Hollywood legend Jean Harlow posed near nude at Los Angeles' Griffith park in 1929 as a spirited forest nymph. An original first generation gelatin silver antique photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken and developed by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

Nudes Along The California Coast
Edwin Bower Hesser (1920's - 30's )
A dramatic and artfully posed gelatin silver original photograph by Edward Bower Hesser taken along the secluded shores of the California Coast. A pretty pair of lounging nude models mindful of the nude imagery of Edward Weston another noted nude Pictorialist who worked in Southern California during the 1920s - 30s art deco jazz-age. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

A Seaside Nude Study
Edwin Bower Hesser (1920s - 1930s )
A dramatic and artfully posed gelatin silver original photograph by Edward Bower Hesser taken along the secluded shores of the California Coast. A pretty model in a dancers pose which brings to mind the nude imagery of Edward Weston another noted nude Pictoralist who worked in Southern California during the 1920s - 30s art deco jazz-age. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

A Kneeling Nude
Edwin Bower Hesser (1920s - 1930s )
A lovely original gelatin silver photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser of a seductive nude model in soft focus. We believe the model to be Jeanette Loff a silent film siren and Rolf Armstrong pin-up model. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

Jean Harlow Nude At Griffith Park
Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)
An original 4" by 5" sepia photograph of Hollywood legend Jean Harlow posed nude at Los Angeles' Griffith park in 1929. An original first generation gelatin silver antique photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken and developed by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.


A Reclining Nude Jean Harlow
Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)
An original 4" by 5" sepia photograph of Hollywood legend Jean Harlow posed nude at Los Angeles' Griffith park in 1929. An original first generation gelatin silver antique photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate find of eight years ago. An original graflex photograph taken and developed by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.


A Young Jean Harlow Nude
Edwin Bower Hesser (1929)
An original 4" by 5" sepia photograph of Hollywood legend Jean Harlow posed nude at Los Angeles' Griffith park in 1929. An original first generation gelatin silver antique photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser. From an Allied Artist's Photographers Guild east coast estate find of eight years ago. An original graflex photograph taken and developed by Hesser for use in his "Art's Monthly Pictorial" photography magazine for artists and art students.

Carole Lombard
Unknown (1930s)
Carole Lombard, one of the finest actresses of the golden era of Hollywood film, is captured in all of her glamour in this promotional portrait for Paramount Pictures. In dramatic sequined gown, the platinum blonde beauty who captured the heart of America in the 1930s, and died tragically promoting the war effort in 1941, still captivates.

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