Grapefruit Moon Gallery

Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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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!

[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Big Eye Girl in Paris” amount=”1950.00″ no shipping=”2″ quantity=”1″ return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/thank-you-for-your-order” cancel_return=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/your-order-was-not-processed” button_image=”https://grapefruitmoongallery.com/wp-content/buy-now.png” target=”blank”] This big eye brunette seen standing in front of an urban window is signed by the artist “Roff of Paris” and dates to 1961. It offers a compelling view of a stylish albeit blue lady who towers above the quiet […]

Big Eye Girl In Paris

Artist: Roff Of Paris

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.

Pin-Up Girls of History – Cleopatra

Artist: Henry Clive

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 […]

Rain Beginning

Artist: Robert Patterson

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 […]

The Mad Masquerade

Artist: Arthur William Brown

Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line.  It was published with the title Fishermans’s Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]

Fisherman’s Luck

Artist: Earl Moran

    This is an exciting, fresh-to-the-market paperback book cover illustration by Al Schmidt for the 1952 Cardinal Complete Book Edition of The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman. The text slug on the paperback reads, “Five men and one woman gazed upward at Weissturm – The White Tower – hypnotized by the beckoning shadows […]

The White Tower

Artist: Al Schmidt

  From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. Often released in parallel series including leather bound and a non-leather bound (leatherette), the books were handsomely bound and included illustrations from contemporary illustrators. American artist and illustrator Steven […]

The Franklin Library: The Sound and the Fury – Frontispiece

Artist: Steven Stroud

A feisty redhead is caught in a private moment in this voyeuristic and menacing published pulp painting that was used as the cover of Ecstasy Books #15 “Wanton By Night.” The image is filled with classic pulp iconography, from the scantily-clad femme fatale hurryingly drawing down her shade in the close confines of urban apartment […]

Wanton by Night

Artist: George Gross

This oil on canvas painting by Reginald Bolles is a classic example of Golden Age illustration and was likely created as cover art for an American glossy magazine in the 1920s. Showcasing a smartly attired flapper girl in a cloche hat closely admiring a cherry tree branch with a birds nest attached that is filled […]

The Robins Nest

Artist: Reginald Bolles

  From its founding in 1973 until its closing in 2000 The Franklin Library produced public domain classic books, releasing series such as Greatest Books of the Twentieth Century. Often released in parallel series including leather bound and a non-leather bound (leatherette), the books were handsomely bound and included illustrations from contemporary illustrators. American artist and […]

The Sound and the Fury

Artist: Steven Stroud

 

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