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A Hula Girl Serenade

Artist:Lloyd Rognan
Date:1950s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 26" x 34" Framed 32 1/2" x 40 1/2"
Condition:Good
Original Use:Cover Art for Unidentified Issue of Rogue Magazine
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of artwork
Above: The artist’s signature (faint but legible Lloyd Rognan)

This large scale, colorful cheesecake pin up painting features a Hawaiian hula girl serenaded by Rogue Magazine’s signature wolf and was created as cover art by Lloyd Rognan for an unidentified issue of the infamous early men’s magazine. Beginning with the first issue of Rogue, Rognan developed a series of these cartoonish little red riding hood inspired entanglements, and this example is particularly appealing. A classic example of mid-century hula girl Hawaiiana in which the magazine’s signature “Rogue Wolf” plays the part of the haole (or in this case howly?) in tourist shirt.

Above: Detail
Above: Framed in a handsome tropical wicker tiki-room worthy gallery frame
Above: Frame profile and detail

Rognan had a long and prolific career as an illustrator, he studied with an early WPA art student project, contributed frequently for Stars and Stripes. Later his science fiction pulp artwork appeared as covers for such publications as Fate, Imagination and Imaginative Tales , and other sci- fi pulp magazines exploiting the “pre Apollo” moon mission space travel craze. In the 60’s, Rognan was also a regular staff artist for Brown & Bigelow and created a hillbilly humor line called Corn Squeezins.

Grapefruit Moon Gallery has previously sold similar examples of Lloyd Rognan cover paintings for “Rogue for Men” commissioned by the Greenleaf Publishing Company as referenced and shown below.

A Hula Girl Serenade

Artist: Lloyd Rognan
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, cheesecake, hawaiiana, hula girl, Lloyd Rognan, original cover art, Rogue For Men
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2011

 

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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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