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Let’s Get Together

Artist:Rolf Armstrong
Date:1940
Medium:Pastel on Illustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 30" x 40" Framed 35" x 45"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Pin Up Art for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of entanglement
Above: The artist’s signature
Above: Detail of model Dorothy Conover

A large and fresh (in all respects) original pastel illustration by Rolf Armstrong, the father of American pin up. Created in 1940 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company and titled “Let’s Get Together” this features a streamlined modernist view of model Dorothy Conover in as close to a situational pin up entanglement as Armstrong cared to venture. The artist defied the cheesecake trends, and an Armstrong girl would never be seen with a gust of wind catching her off guard or sitting on a freshly painted park bench. The artist was above such sight gags and the world of vintage pin up is a better place on account of this.

Above: Framed and properly matted behind U.V. glass in handsome gallery frame
Above: Frame profile and detail
Above: Brown & Bigelow published vintage print of image included with purchase

This is a luminous, large scale, important and iconic pin-up that was seen on hundreds of advertising calendars and blotters and assorted pieces of ephemera in the early 1940s. Recognized as one of the artist’s more inspired works, this has never before been on the market. For many years this was in the collection of Armstrong model and confidante Jewel Flowers.

Let’s Get Together

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Dorothy Conover, original calendar art, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, scotty, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2010

 

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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.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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