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Perhaps the finest nude pin-up ever created, this Earl Steffa Moran pastel is a fresh midwest estate find. This luminous masterwork dates from Moran’s “Light & Shadow” period. Marketed under the title “Tomorrow’s Star,” the model was reported to be Jean Harlow. Six early nudes by Moran were packaged as a large format high end print folio which Brown & Bigelow gave as a premium gift to its most lucrative business accounts under the title “Running into Six Figures.” Many collectors site the folio as the high water mark of pin-up art.

Show Girl

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, glamour, Great American Pin-up, Jean Harlow, nude, original calendar art, pin up, Running Into Six Figures, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 6, 2008

A dashing original pastel illustration, a scarce surviving Golden Age of Hollywood cover portrait of the lovely Marion Davies. Davies, a true film legend, is captured in an opulent and unabashedly art deco pose by frequent tinsel-town illustrator Charles Gates Sheldon. This large and inventive work was used as the March 1936 cover of “Movie Classic Magazine”. Pastel is in a fine original state of conservation and framed and matted behind glass in an an ornate gesso period antique frame.

A Dashing Marion Davies

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Charles Sheldon, flapper, Golden Age, hollywood, magazine cover, Marion Davies, Movie Classic, original cover art
Added to Gallery: July 1, 2017

This voluptuous dreamy risqué redhead was created as calendar pin up art for the Goes Litho Company by the prolific and talented female Chicago area illustrator Pearl Frush. A red headed femme-fatale, loosely styled after Jean Harlow from her starring turn in the 1932 film Red Headed Woman, appears in a floppy wide brimmed straw hat with […]

Red Headed Woman

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, flapper, glamour, Goes Litho Co., Golden Age, hollywood, Jean Harlow, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2016

With the advent of sound in the early 1920s and its adoption by feature length films in 1927, films got dirtier. During the silent era the lack of dialogue constrained plots, and with sound narratives grew more complicated and came to involve adult themes and politics, incorporating dirty speech into what had previously been only […]

Pre-Code Talk

Filed Under: Gallery Blog

Added to Gallery: November 8, 2013

A rare surviving luminous pastel portrait of early talkie era legendary Hollywood film star Katherine Hepburn, created as the cover for the September 1933 issue of Screenland Magazine. An excellent example of cover portraiture by Charles Gates Sheldon who had a very prolific career creating stylized glamorous art deco Hollywood film star portraits for many of the leading jazz age movie magazine titles. Pastel is beautifully framed and silk matted behind glass.

Katharine Hepburn

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, Charles Sheldon, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, jazz age, Katharine Hepburn, magazine cover, original cover art, portrait, Screenland
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2011

A deftly rendered luminous pastel portrait of silent and early talkie legendary Hollywood film star Greta Garbo, created as the cover for the June 1934 issue of Screenland Magazine. One of the finest examples of cover portraiture we have ever come across by Charles Gates Sheldon who had a very prolific career creating stylized glamorous art deco Hollywood film star portraits for many of the leading jazz age movie magazine titles.

Greta Garbo

Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, Charles Sheldon, glamour, Golden Age, Greta Garbo, hollywood, magazine cover, original cover art, portrait, Screenland, silent movie, swedish, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2011

A recently discovered radiant C.1934 pastel portrait by Rolf Armstrong of the beautiful and glamorous and tragically short lived Hollywood film legend Carole Lombard. This work was never published, it was likely proposed as a cover for Modern Screen magazine. A luminous and large pastel on illustration board, handsomely matted and framed behind glass, a fresh never before on the market rare and important offering.

Carole Lombard in Mink Stole

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Carole Lombard, glamour, hollywood, magazine cover, Modern Screen, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong, study
Added to Gallery: May 15, 2011

Rolf Armstrong in studio

Rolf Armstrong From the son of a small town tugboat captain to the Father of American Pin-Up Art, Rolf Armstrong led a full life and had a long and prolific career. In 1919, Armstrong aligned himself with Brown & Bigelow where he painted countless images for advertising calendar art. Mahlon Blaine Mahlon Blaine’s best work […]

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A lovely original gelatin silver photograph by Edwin Bower Hesser of a seductive nude model in soft focus. We believe the model to be Jeanette Loff a silent film siren and Rolf Armstrong pin-up model. From an Allied Artist’s Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his “Art’s Monthly Pictorial” photography magazine for artists and art students.

A Kneeling Nude

Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Art's Monthly Pictorial, Edwin Bower Hesser, gelatin silver photograph, Griffith Park, Jeanette Loff, nude, study
Added to Gallery: July 20, 2010

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    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.

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