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High and Dry

Artist:Charles Showalter
Date:1940s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 25" x 30 1/4" Framed 31" x 36"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Calendar Art
Price: S O L D

High & Dry
High & Dry

The artist's signature
The artist’s signature

A classic situational cheesecake pin up mishap unfolds in this original Louis F. Dow calendar painting by the Chicago area artist Charles Showalter titled “High & Dry.” The lovely nude is caught, high, and perhaps now dry after removing her clothes. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently acquired this and several other Louis F. Dow published calendar paintings from a private party, and like those, this has never been on the market before. By all accounts, and in all respects, “High & Dry” is a ‘fresh’ exciting estate find.

Showalter executed several pin up calendar girl images for Dow in a style reminiscent of Gil Elvgren and Hadden Sundblom. A Chicago based artist about whom little is known, Showalter likely worked within the Sundblom shop. The writer and pin up historian Charles Martignette speculated in the 1990s that Showalter was in fact a pseudonym for Sundblom, but information on the artist has since come forward to disprove this.

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Full view

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Detail

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Framed view

Titled on verso stretcher
Titled on verso stretcher

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Verso view

High and Dry

Artist: Charles Showalter
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, boat, Charles Showalter, cheesecake, chicago, Great American Pin-up, nude, original calendar art, pin up, sundblom shop, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: October 7, 2013

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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