Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This is a beautiful, unique, and rare preliminary graphite drawing by Gil Elvgren for a Brown & Bigelow artwork, though it appears the final composition shifted somewhat, as this bears resemblance to a few different published pieces. Gil Elvgren took, on average, one week to complete each of the 400+ pin-up paintings he created […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Nude Figure Study Sketch by Gil Elvgren” amount=”10500.00″ 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 original fine art figure study by the pre-eminent pin-up illustrator comes from a collection of Gil Elvgren preliminary graphite drawings that we acquired which were found in a house in Sarasota, Florida where the artist once lived. With restraint […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
This beautiful and mysterious illustration by Edwin Georgi was created in 1954 as illustration for an interior story in the Saturday Evening Post. Later, a very similar but more tightly rendered variation on this theme would appear in Redbook Magazine illustrating a story titled Marry For Money. While we have been unable to locate […]
Artist: Edwin Georgi
An unpublished original pastel by Rolf Armstrong of model Dea Jamel Smith, a pretty young dancer from Julliard who Armstrong worked with extensively during the 1920’s and early 30s as she had the face and physique of the Roaring Twenties and the Jazz-age. This work was never published, we acquired it from the model’s descendants. Armstrong really excelled at these pastel close-up portraits, this is a lovely and fresh to the market example that captures the allure of the flapper girl effortlessly with a blue eyed flirty smile.
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
A signed original pastel on illustration board from the late 1930’s by the artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins of a modernist blonde showgirl.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Come Be My Love by Wesley Snyder” amount=”1975.00″ 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”] Post-War Romance and Intrigue This well-rendered gouache illustration by artist and illustrator Wesley Snyder features a bubbly blonde sweetheart in a white tennis skirt and a pink sweater emblazoned with the nickname “killer.” Fresh from the tennis court she […]
Artist: Wesley Snyder
An allegorical scene that appears to blend the biblical with the modern, this beautiful and emotional oil on canvas is by illustrator Charles Allan Winter.
Artist: Charles Winter
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Ship Shape by K.O. Munson” amount=”4500.00″ 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”] 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 […]
Artist: K. O. Munson
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Dondi Penn Boudoir Portrait by Bunny Yeager” amount=”2250.00″ 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”] An Intimate Portrait of Marci Lane by Bunny Yeager Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this sensual portrait of model Marci Lane. Completely nude and casually curled up on a midcentury modern couch, […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
[wp_paypal button=”buynow” name=”Dondi Penn Boudoir Portrait by Bunny Yeager” amount=”2250.00″ 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”] Boudoir Portraiture with Bunny Yeager & Dondi Penn Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this sultry boudoir portrait of model Dondi Penn. Topless and wearing only a pair of high-waisted panties, Penn stares […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
