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Thrilling Love Soda Girl

Artist:Howard Connelly
Date:1950
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 15 1/4 X 21" Framed 24 1/2" X 31"
Condition:Excellent restored condition
Original Use:Cover for Thrilling Love Pulp - June, 1950
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The image as the cover of Thrilling Love - June, 1950
The image as the cover of Thrilling Love – June, 1950

A fresh to the market, good girl art painting by Howard Connelly, created as the June 1950 cover of the Thrilling Publications pulp title Thrilling Love. A pretty pin-up girl enjoys a soda fountain strawberry shake against a vibrant yellow fade away design aesthetic that is modernist and impactful. The 1940s and 50s saw the creation of many breezy romance-minded pulp titles, which stood in strong contrast to the menace and spicy titles of the 1930s. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently purchased seven published pulp cover paintings from an east coast collection of a former employee of the publishers. This has been put on new pine back stretcher bars and is handsomely framed in a period frame and displays very well.

Detail
Detail
Framed and matted view in a period gold painted wood frame

 

Verso view with the artist signature and usage notations
Verso view with the artist signature and usage notations

Thrilling Love Soda Girl

Artist: Howard Connelly

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Golden Age, good girl art, Howard Connelly, magazine cover, pin up, pulp, soda fountain, Thrilling Love
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2018

 

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