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Mod Glamour Girl with Rose

Artist:Mayo Olmstead
Date:1970s
Medium:Gouache on Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 14 1/2" x 19"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Presumably Pin Up Art for Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of work
Above: The artist’s signature

A smartly rendered late 1960s to 1970s gouache illustration painting by Mayo Olmstead presumably created for a Brown & Bigelow pin up calendar. Olmstead, along with Fritz Willis, Clair Fry, and Bill Layne, was the Saint Paul, Minnesota calendar company’s star staff illustrator during the tail end of the pin up craze, when a more modern and contemporary idealized beauty was preferred. A classic example of what is now referred to as “Good Girl Art” or GGA by pin up collectors and pop culture scholars.

Above: The artist’s business label on verso with Nicollet Mall Minneapolis studio address
Above: Verso view
Above: The artist’s signature

Mod Glamour Girl with Rose

Artist: Mayo Olmstead
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, american, Brown & Bigelow, good girl art, Mayo Olmstead, Minnesota Artist, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 10, 2009

 

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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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