Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to be able to offer "Ye Chiseler - Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum", a large, commanding, seductive and masterful mural created by Henry Clive, to our eyes the finest illustrator working in jazz age Hollywood. Along with its companion work "The Infidel" (also available through Grapefruit Moon Gallery), Clive created this masterwork for the tavern of The Masquers Club, a historic and fascinating Hollywood institution.
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: $35,000.00
A hauntingly beautiful dated 1919 oil on canvas painting by the American artist and illustrator Charles Allan Winter. A nude Art Nouveau maiden with a purple iris posed in front of mosaic work in a style and aesthetic that recalls Alphonse Mucha. Painting is framed in a completely hand crafted gesso batwing frame that was created specifically to house this jewel of a painting.
Artist: Charles Winter
Price: $16,500.00
Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida wearing a teeny-weeny polka dot bikini (that she made herself) as […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price: SOLD
Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida in a pair of curve-hugging hot pants and a fuzzy bandeau […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price: Sold
Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963, showcasing her draw on both sides of the camera by posing in a negligee handmade by the photographer. The platinum Yeager channels original blonde bombshell Jean Harlow in this sensual self […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price: $2,250.00
This minimalist yet evocative watercolor painting shows three men standing together against a blue sky while a horse grazes in the foreground. This illustration appears as a full-page bookplate on page 132 of Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington. From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain […]
Artist: Bart Forbes
Price: $850.00
Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963, showcasing her draw on both sides of the camera by posing in a seated lotus position and holding a small square throw pillow over her otherwise nude body. This gelatin silver print is 1 of an […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price: $2,675.00
This rare original painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the October 13, 1946 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Egyptian inspired image was from a series entitled "Pin-up Girls of History." Pictured as Cleopatra is the lovely Hollywood film star Dorothy Lamour, whose impossibly good looks and exotic features draw comparison to the legendary queen of the Nile, though the actress never portrayed her in film.
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: SOLD
This colorful and romantic gouache on illustration board is by the mid-century artist and illustrator Robert Patterson. It was created as an interior illustration for the May 1948 issue of McCall's magazine. It accompanies a short story written by Frances Malm titled "Rain Beginning." The images shows a glamorous raven-haired beauty posed forehead-to-forehead with a […]
Artist: Robert Patterson
Price: SOLD
Illustrator Arthur William Brown's graphite on paper depiction a chic Parisian street scene populated by American ex-pats was created to accompany a short story by Kenyon Gambier titled The Mad Masquerade in the March 26, 1927 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. Kenyon Gambier was a pen name of U.S. Diplomat Lorin Andrews Lathrop, who […]
Artist: Arthur William Brown
Price: SOLD
