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Grapefruit Moon Gallery Is Now On YouTube! In our ongoing quest to spread the word on vintage illustration and pin-up art we have started a YouTube channel. These short, vlog-style videos will cover a range of topics from coverage of an artist’s career to deep dives into specific works of art and everything in-between! Check […]

Grapefruit Moon Gallery – Now on YouTube!

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: blog, vlog, youtube
Added to Gallery: October 30, 2020

The Rivalry Between Calendar Giants Brown & Bigelow and Louis F. Dow One of the most intriguing and spiteful episodes in the history of American pin-up art came out of the competition between Brown & Bigelow and Louis F. Dow, the two largest calendar companies in the United States in the 20th century. Both were […]

Gil Elvgren, Vaughan Bass, and Louis F. Dow

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Calendar
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

Bunny Yeager in Mexico Recently, InsideHook featured an article on Bunny Yeager and her spectacular, often overlooked photo shoot in Mexico during the late 1960s. This topic has become the subject of a new book, Women of the Sun: Bunny Yeager in Mexico which is being released by Cult Epics on June 9, 2020. An […]

Bunny Yeager’s Glamour Girls in Mexico

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Bunny Yeager, Glamour Photography, Mexico, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2020

Bunny Yeager’s 1950s work with models of color is deeply serious, and at times, even reverent. Unfortunately, much of it has remained unseen until recently.

Bunny Yeager in the Miami Herald

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1950s, 1960s, Bunny Yeager, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: January 13, 2020

As long as there has been sand, secluded coves, calm lakes, vast oceans and hot days, people have taken to the waters for health, exercise, fun, and community. Once just a summer retreat for those who lived close to a shore or the wealthy, mass transportation and motorcars turned a day at the beach into […]

Dreaming of Summer with “Swim Easy” Swimsuits

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, bathing beauty, fashion
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2019

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as “the world’s greatest pin-up photographer” by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations […]

The Estate of Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, cheesecake, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up
Added to Gallery: October 13, 2018

In part one of our blog series on Jewel Flowers, we explored how the model rose from teenaged North Carolina beauty queen to become muse and adored friend to illustrator and Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong as well as how the pair’s keen eye for fashion translated into the gorgeous costumes seen in Armstrong’s pastels. […]

Jewel Flowers Behind The Scenes; Part 2

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Calendar, illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 18, 2018

The parties at Ocean House … were strictly Marion, and there with gaiety, generosity, and bubbling fun she entertained her multitude of friends. Each year she gave a costume ball on W.R.’s birthday. There was a 49’er party; a kid party, when Gable came as a boy scout and Joan Crawford as Shirley Temple; an […]

Marion Davies Hosts A Hollywood Costume Party

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Tagged With: 1930s, halloween, Party
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2017

Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators inducted American illustrator and pin-up artist George Petty into their Illustrator’s Hall of Fame. Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and […]

George Petty in the Illustrators Hall of Fame

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Esquire, George Petty, Petty Girl, pin up, Society of Illustrators
Added to Gallery: July 11, 2017

Who were the artist’s models and muses whose faces and figures are instantly recognizable to lovers of early 20th century art and photography? It’s a question we at Grapefruit Moon Gallery ask ourselves often, and the more we learn about them the more fascinating they become. To share our passion, we are offering a little vignette […]

Lives of the Muses

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, Alice Prin, Artist's Model, Audrey Munson, Evelyn Nesbit, Gilded Age, Kiki de Montparnasse
Added to Gallery: December 16, 2016

Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators inducted American illustrator and pin-up artist Rolf Armstrong into their Illustrator’s Hall of Fame. Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and […]

Rolf Armstrong in the Illustrators Hall of Fame

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2016

Jewel Flowers; a diminutive gem of an artist’s model who was muse to Rolf Armstrong for half his career, and whose popularity at times threatened to surpass his. Armstrong began the 1940s known for vampy flappers and radiant pin-ups with art deco sophistication, a style that was waning in popularity at the time. His meeting with Flowers, an unknown […]

Jewel Flowers Behind the Scenes; Part 1

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1940s, Artist's Model, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Dress, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, Trench Art, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 26, 2016

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