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Automotive Wash Job

Artist:Bill Layne
Date:1957
Medium:Gouache on Illlustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 10 1/2" x 12 1/2" Framed 19 1/8" x 17 1/4"
Condition:Mint
Original Use:Original Calendar Art for Brown & Bigelow
Price: Sold
Above: Full view of gouache
Above: The artists signature

A well rendered humorous gouache calendar painting for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar by prolific and well listed staff artist Bill Layne. This was used in their 1957 calendar line and is a precise depiction of what what Layne does best, a strange, hillbilly pin up scene. Work is beautifully matted and framed in a maple gallery frame and ready to display.

Above: Detail
Above: Detail

Bill Layne was best known for his humorous “hillbilly” renderings which blended in shapely pin up girls and elves. During the later years of Brown & Bigelow’s long run, Layne was one of their star illustrators.

Above: Framed and matted view
Above: Margin notations

Automotive Wash Job

Artist: Bill Layne
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, aquatic, Bill Layne, Brown & Bigelow, hillbilly, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 17, 2008

 

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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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