Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Welcome to Grapefruit Moon Gallery. Here you will find an archived visual history of past sales. Pretty to look at, some are quite old; but when they're in here, consider them sold!
Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Pigeon Feathers This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. A richly colored, dreamlike image that plays with light and dark, it features a boy standing in a dark barn with sunlight streaming in through slats in the wooden walls. The boy looks up as a trio of […]
Artist: Bob Dacey
Price: Sold
Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. This is a richly colored piece done entirely in neutral tones. It features two Black women dressed in white in the forefront who are seen tending to a goat, and two […]
Artist: Bob Dacey
Price: Sold
Original illustration by Bob Dacey from You’ll Never Know, Dear This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. It is a dreamlike portrait with rich, brown tones and soft brush strokes. It features two young men at a carnival game with a wheel spinning in a blur in front of them as it takes […]
Artist: Bob Dacey
Price: Sold
Original illustration by Bob Dacey from Lifeguard This beautifully rendered watercolor is by illustrator Bob Dacey. It is a dreamlike piece that captures the summer haze of hot days at the beach. It features a lifeguard, hunched forward, eyes on the water, as he keenly observes the beachgoers. Dacey was commissioned to create this piece […]
Artist: Bob Dacey
Price: Sold
This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.
Artist: Billy Devorss
Price: Sold
A behind-the-scenes look at a Hollywood dramatization of space travelers exploring the surface of the moon, this this gouache cover painting by Ed Lafferty appeared on the cover of the May, 1950 edition of Popular Mechanics. The scene illustrates an interior story that investigates how close scientists were in 1950 to manned space flight and dissects the accuracy (or lack thereof) of Pal Productions film “Destination Moon.”
Artist: Ed Lafferty
Price: Sold
World War II Home Front Honey by Rolf Armstrong Widely considered “The Father of American Pin-Up”, Rolf Armstrong‘s luminous portraits of famous actresses and idealized girls-next-door made him one of the highest paid commercial artists in America; his pictures are noted for their grace, vibrancy, and indescribable lifelike quality. During the 1940s, Armstrong created a […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: Sold
The Bashful Stripper – A Beauty Parade Cover Girl by Peter Driben Clad in a blue and green striped, flesh-baring one piece costume and embroidered silk stockings, this shapely, blonde ecdysiast casts a come-hither gaze and inviting smile from underneath her unkempt golden locks that have fallen out of their pigtails. With hands rested on […]
Artist: Peter Driben
Price: Sold
Alluring Redhead Adores Her Beauty Clad in black lingerie that clings to her voluptuous figure and, in some places, is bursting at the seams, this luscious, redheaded pin-up girl sits on the floor in front of a makeup case and holds a mirror in her hand, which she uses to admire her perfectly painted face. […]
Artist: Howard Connolly
Price: Sold
The Party Line by Irene Patten With dazzling blue eyes, rosy apple cheeks, and a megawatt smile, this languorous, copper-topped glamour girl is reposed on a chaise lounge in front of a telephone waiting for her beau to call in “The Party Line”, a pastel illustration by female pin-up artist and illustrator Irene Patten. Along […]
Artist: Irene Patten
Price: Sold
Art Nouveau Moon Goddess by James Ross Bryson This is a rare surviving pastel by the prolific and inventive early pin-up artist James Ross Bryson. Bryson defined Art Nouveau feminine beauty with his Edwardian views of corseted and lavishly attired, erotic, and bold anti-Victorian maidens. An early star staff artist for the Thomas D. Murphy […]
Artist: J. Ross Bryson
Price: Sale Pending
Rainbow Jewel Flowers This is a fun, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered whimsical sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers in an ethereal gown bursting with a kaleidoscope of rainbow colors. Armstrong created this pastel for Flowers as a gift and it […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: Sold
