Welcome to Grapefruit Moon Gallery. Here you will find an archived visual history of past sales. Pretty to look at, some are quite old; but when they're in here, consider them sold.

A charming and well rendered 1954 oil on canvas painting created for an Ohleen Dairy Calendar by the Louis F. Dow Company. The artist is Vaughan Alden Bass, who specialized in pin-up art for this Saint Paul Minnesota gone but not forgotten Calendar giant. Of particular note in this lovely painting is the adorable bakelite crib toy in the lower right corner. verso canvas is dated 1954, and stretcher is marked with Ohleen Dairy, 1954 Line and Current in pen.

A snappy and sexy original pastel illustration by Earl Moran commissioned as a 1951 Brown & Bigelow calendar. Text reads "Here's an extra addition you can hardly refuse; for this little gal is just covered in news..." Pastel is beautifully framed and condition is outstanding as is the image.

This dramatic and deftly rendered gouache was created as the cover for "Male" February 1966 "Yank Imposter In The Luftwaffe," and reprinted as an interior 2 page spread in the June 1967 issue of "For Men Only" titled "10 Days To Bring In The Death Head General." A remarkably tight work that shows Kunstler at his best, using an almost photo-realist technique to create tension, menace and fear.

A flirty, scandalous and new to the market cover illustration by Enoch Bolles, which appeared first as a cover for a 1930's Young's Magazine, and again made an appearance on a 1938 cover of Breezy Stories. Enoch Bolles excelled in these curiously proportioned Spicy Pulp, envelope pushing, angular modernist heartbreakers. This is a spectacular work which, like most Bolles' offerings, is unsigned and is nicely framed and ready to hang.

A 1949 Western Americana cowgirl themed gouache on illustration board which comes directly from the archives of the 100-year-old San Francisco ad agency/lithography company "Stecher-Traung & Schmidt." The work is in the style of George Petty, and Ben-Hur Baz. Among other noted artists Stecher-Traug employed Gil Elvgren, E.B. Segner & Mary Mayo. This commissioned illustration is dated and inkstamped in the lower corner but is unsigned. Work is beautifully framed and matted in a period ornate gesso frame.

A whimsical pen and ink drawing by Heinrich Kley depicting a pair of crocodiles holding a tightrope for an art nouveau circus aerialist balancing with umbrella. Titled in the corner by the artist Seiltanz or "Rope Walk." A fine example of Kley's dazzling technical skills, work also visits the artist's penchant for humanizing the animal kingdom. Beautifully framed and matted in a period fine gold gilt plein air aesthetic antique frame.

An endearing original 1959 Oil on Canvas by Gil Elvgren titled Ruffled Feathers. This entanglement themed piece embodies the seductive appeal which made Elvgren the uncontested master of American Pin-up. With extraordinary attention to detail, all the way down to the garters, this painting is both masterfully rendered and sublimely sexy, a singularly fine and luminous Elvgren offering.

A rare original Brown and Bigelow-commisioned pin-up painting for their prestigious Sylvania Products account. Each year one of the calendar company's star artists would create a wholesome yet alluring "Miss Sylvania" exclusively for Sylvania's advertising campaign. This luminous original oil-on -canvas painting dates to the early 1950s and is featured on page 228 plate #545 in the collector's book Gil Elvgren All His Glamourous American Pin-ups.

A delightful early Rolf Armstrong original pastel in which the artist employs an impressionist and modern technique for the shadowing and details. This is a lovely and unusual transition piece from the period in Armstrong's career where he began to shift from depicting winsome art nouveau beauties to the more dramatic and angular art deco flapper girls which defined his career. We have yet to find a printed version of this stunning original artwork by the father of American pin-up.

A clever and playful oil on canvas by Edward Vincent Brewer. This 1922 Cream of Wheat advertising painting titled "The Filling Station" features a young cherubic lad on a soap box derby car devised from a Cream of Wheat crate. Iconic chef "Rastus" is posed in the doorway of The Cream of Wheat Inn, a prop Brewer used in many of these Americana themed works. The "Inn" was actually Brewer's St Paul MN studio on his Mississippi River bluff estate. Brewer purchased the former Lake Street bridge keepers house to use as a studio. The Lake Street Bridge is one of the iconic Minnesota landmarks which runs over the mighty Mississippi that divides Minneapolis and Saint Paul.Framed in a period 1920's Arts & Crafts aesthetic antique oak frame.