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Jewel Flowers Inscribed Charcoal Portrait

Artist:Rolf Armstrong
Date:1945
Medium:Charcoal on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 20" X 24 1/2" Framed 23" X 27 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Presentation Drawing Given To The Model's Parents
Price: Sold

 

Framed under glass in original frame
The artist’s signature and inscription lower right

A charming and warmly fraternal charcoal portrait of Jewel Flowers dated 1945, that was inscribed by the American artist Rolf Armstrong and given to the models parents – Mr. & Mrs. Colton Flowers. As a teenager Jewel Flowers was crowned “Miss Lumberton, North Carolina”, she moved to New York City at 17 after graduating from high school, having been both invited there by a friend from Lumberton and sent by her parents to enroll in a business college in Manhattan. In March 1940, Flowers sent a picture of herself to pin-up artist Rolf Armstrong in response to an advertisement he had placed in the New York Times, the rest as they say is history.

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Jewel Flowers Inscribed Charcoal Portrait

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Golden Age, Jewel Flowers, original illustration art, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

 

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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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