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Demure Flapper With Bobbed Hair

Artist:Pearl Hill
Date:1920-25
Medium:Pastel on Illlustration Board
Dimensions:Sight Size 18" x 21" Framed 26" x 29"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Presumably Cover Illustration for Women's Magazine
Above: Full view of pastel
Above: Framed in handsome gallery frame

A delightful pastel by Pearl L. Hill. This dates from the 1920s and was presumably used as a cover for a period woman’s magazine (likely Modern Priscilla). A demure yet playfully-posed, modernist, roaring 20s flapper girl with short bobbed hair strikes a winning pose in this large, nicely matted and framed illustration. Hill created seven cover paintings in the early 1920’s for the prestigious The Saturday Evening Post. Her illustrations modernized the American woman in glamorous art deco fashion.

Above: The artist’s signature
Above: The October 1925 Modern Priscilla Magazine with Pearl L. Hill cover

Demure Flapper With Bobbed Hair

Artist: Pearl Hill

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, flapper, magazine cover, Modern Priscilla, original cover art, Pearl Hill
Added to Gallery: August 5, 2008

 

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