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The Yellow Flowered Gown

Artist:Edna Crompton
Date:1920s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 16" by 21" - Framed 19 3/4" by 24 3/4"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Exhibited fine art, likely also published as magazine or calendar illustration
Price: Sold
Full view
Full view
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
Framed view in original repainted gold wood frame
Framed view in original repainted gold wood frame

A beautiful oil on canvas portrait painting by the noted female American Golden Age illustrator Edna Crompton. This was exhibited in the 1920s at Beard Art Galleries in Minneapolis as part of their one woman show “Girls of America”. Crompton was a prolific cover illustrator for American mainstream publications including The Saturday Evening Post and Redbook magazine, she also worked creating calendar art for the Osborne Calendar Company conceiving modernist flapper girl series of images with skillfully composed portraits that were marketed with snappy titles such as “Girls You Can’t Forget” and “Girls of Today”.

This painting was titled “Yellow Flowered Gown” and is listed as the 14th work in the Beard gallery catalog, the back stretcher bar is marked “14” and a vintage exhibit catalog of Beard Galleries show is included in the sale. We also have a few letters to Crompton from various calendar companies and several 5″ by 7″ photographs of her paintings that accompany the painting. It is likely that this painting was also published as either a Redbook cover or as a calendar image, as this exhibit focused primarily on her published illustrations, but we have not as of yet found the exact usage.

Beard Galleries Exhibit Brochure, included in sale
Beard Galleries Exhibit Brochure, included in sale
Painting #14, Yellow Flowed Gown.
Painting #14, Yellow Flowed Gown.
Vintage black and white photographs of other works from the exhibit, included in the sale.
Vintage black and white photographs of other works from the exhibit, included in the sale.

Edna Crompton of New York was a pupil of Frank Benson, Edwin Tarbell and Philip Hale, she studied at the Museum School of Drawing and Painting in Boston, The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Fine Arts, Chicago.

Verso view of old stretcher bars and untouched canvas
Verso view of old stretcher bars and untouched canvas

The Yellow Flowered Gown

Artist: Edna Crompton
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Exhibited, flapper, Golden Age, original calendar art, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2014

 

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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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