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Princess Pat Cosmetics Flapper Girl

Artist:Earl Christy
Date:1920s
Medium:Pastel on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 18" x 24" Framed 30" x 36"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Advertising for Princess Pat Cosmetics
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of pastel
Above: The artist’s signature
Above: Detail

A large and magnificent rare surviving signed F. Earl Christy pastel advertising illustration on canvas for “The Princess Pat” Cosmetic Company. A defining and glamorous pin up girl with a chic and elegantly sophisticated jazz-age style and modernist machine age aesthetic. F. Earl Christy was a prolific early 1900’s illustrator who’s career spanned four decades. We rarely come across his original works. An estate fresh large and luminous example of the “Christy Girl” from the artist’s very best period, nicely matted and framed in a pristine state of original conservation.

Above: Detail
Above: Framed and matted view

F. Earl Christy – 1882 – 1961

Christy studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, his father, William, subsidized his early career as a commercial illustrator (1905-1906). Christy practically invented the illustrated image of the Victorian ideal of the “All-American Girl,” at least for the Ivy-League set. His early works glorified the society college girl – always beautifully dressed at football games, golf and tennis tournaments, riding in automobiles or playing instruments. His first College Girl postcard series was published in 1905 by the U.S.S. Postcard Company. Here is an example of an early 1900’s “Christy Girl” Postcard

During the 1920’s the illustrator worked in advertising and created hundreds of Silent Movie era covers for Photoplay, Modern Screen, Pictorial Review, Popular Songs, Radio Stars, Screen Album, Screen Romances, and Shadowplay glamorizing the “More Stars Than There are in Heaven” Hollywood, tinseltown era star set. Here are four example of F. Earl Christy cover portraits for art deco era magazines.

This illustrators works can also be found on sheet music, fans, blotters, book illustrations, boxes, jigsaw puzzles, posters, serving trays, bookmarks, advertising mailers, catalogs, programs, china, and textiles.

Princess Pat Cosmetics Flapper Girl

Artist: Earl Christy
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, Christy Girl, cosmetics, Earl Christy, flapper, glamour, pin up, Princess Pat, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 16, 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.

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