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Sylvan Murmurs

Artist:Hy Whitroy
Date:1930s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Framed: 27 3/4" x 34" – Sight Size: 23 1/2" x 29 1/2"
Condition:Very good with light scattered craquelure
Original Use:Brown & Bigelow Calendar Art
Price: $2,500.00
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Artist’s signature in lower left corner

Nestled in a quiet glen surrounded by tall, lean yet sturdy trees, flowering saplings, and a murmuring brook sits a log cabin at the end of a dirt path. A blue sky dotted with fluffy clouds tops off this picturesque scene of bucolic beauty. It is a scene that conjures up feelings of bygone times and a simpler life, of a quiet and peaceful existence.

This is just one of many nostalgic utopias created by artist and illustrator Hy Whitroy during his tenure on staff at the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company in St. Paul, Minnesota. Created for use as artwork on one of B&B’s countless advertising calendars, this original oil on canvas painting received its name, “Sylvan Murmurs”, from a contest put on by Brown & Bigelow wherein the contest winner, a local woman from Minnesota, not only got to see her image title printed on calendars, but also received this original painting as a prize.

A beautiful painting; it does display light even, scattered craquelure. Housed in the original gold painted wide profile wood frame.

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Sylvan Murmurs

Artist: Hy Whitroy
Price:  $2,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar
Added to Gallery: June 4, 2018

 

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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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