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
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
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 beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,250.00
A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
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: $9,500.00 $8,500.00
A Ship-Shape Sweetheart by K.O. Munson Attired in a green bikini and a matching colored scarf tied around her wavy, red hair, this brick-topped bombshell is all smiles as she stretches her arms above her head during a relaxing, sunny day out on her yacht. Published as calendar art under the title “Ship-Shape”, this pastel […]
Artist: K. O. Munson
Price: $5,500.00
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: $5,000.00
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: $13,000.00
Adorable Jewel Flowers This is a beautiful, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers wearing a glamorous yellow gown and her mega-watt beaming smile. The pose and layout of this sketch bears a resemblance to Armstrong’s published […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: $3,500.00
This is a fabulous example of Gil Elvgren’s pin-up work for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN. This was created and published in 1955 with the title of Welcome Traveler and is one of the finest Elvgren paintings this gallery has offered. A pretty redhead perched on a tweed suitcase […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: $65,000.00
Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art. We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.
Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.
All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.
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