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Redbook Cover Girl

Artist:Edna Crompton
Date:1927
Medium:Oil on stretched canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 17" x 22" - Framed 21 1/2 " x 26 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Cover for Redbook Magazine, September 1927
Price: Sold
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The artist's signature and frame profile
The artist’s signature and frame profile
The artwork as it appeared for Redbook Magazine
The artwork as it appeared for Redbook Magazine

A beautiful and delicately rendered oil on canvas painting of a pensive lovelorn flapper girl in pearls which appeared as cover art for The Redbook Magazine, September, 1927. A lovely golden age of illustration published example by the noted female artist and illustrator Edna Crompton. The artist worked prolifically creating calendar art glamour images for many of the leading calendar houses throughout the 1920s and her work frequently appeared on the cover of glossy women’s magazines. Housed in the handsome original gold wide profile antique frame in a very fine state of conservation.

Framed view in original gold handsome antique frame
Framed view in original gold handsome antique frame
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detail
verso view
verso view

Redbook Cover Girl

Artist: Edna Crompton
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Edna Crompton, flapper, Golden Age, original cover art, Redbook Magazine
Added to Gallery: February 25, 2015

 

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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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