This pastel of Carole Lombard by Ed Dow was created as cover art for a 1930s Hollywood movie magazine. Original illustration at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Ed Dow
Price: $3,250.00
1930s
This original pastel illustration artwork by Zoë Mozert shows a Jeanette MacDonald inspired glamour girl against a cobalt blue background. The work is a beautiful example by noted Brown& Bigelow pin up artist and prolific cover illustrator.
Artist: Zoë Mozert
Price: $3,500.00
Margaret Sullavan by Earl Christy On offer is a variant of the original Earl Christy cover of Margaret Sullavan which was used as the May 1934 cover of Photoplay Magazine. We have yet to learn much about the exact history of this original piece of illustration art, but our best guess is that Christy created […]
Artist: Earl Christy
Price: $2,200.00
Carole Lombard, 1933 This dazzling pastel created as cover art for a Golden Age Hollywood movie magazine showcases Carole Lombard against a cobalt blue background. Prominently featured is the dazzling star sapphire ring then-husband William Powell gave her as a gift in 1931--the first of many star sapphires the star would collect over the years. […]
Artist: Ed Dow
Price: $3,250.00
Jean Harlow by Charles Sheldon This 1930s-era original pastel on board by Charles Sheldon was one of the many movie magazine covers he created featuring Golden Age Hollywood icons. The pastels he created for Photoplay from 1925 to 1930 included glamorous depictions of Hollywood film stars like Clara Bow, Mae West, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo, […]
Artist: Charles Sheldon
Price: $4,500.00
An exciting Art Deco / Great Depression-era pen and ink illustration by the social satirist Anne Harriet Fish, this was published in an issue of the British humor magazine "The Tatler." Fish, who periodically worked under her married name Anne Sefton Fish, is best known for her character "Eve," a coquettish flapper girl, whose exploits […]
Artist: Anne Harriet Fish
Price: $950.00
From early 20th-century landscape and still-life painter Mary Amanda Lewis comes two beautifully rendered oil on board paintings depicting the early life of hunters and gatherers. Presented in a diptych, one frame shows four men quietly stalking through the forest with bows and arrows while seeking out their prey. The other displays a group of […]
Artist: Mary Amanda Lewis
Price: $2,200.00
An exciting Art Deco / Great Depression-era pen and ink illustration by the social satirist Anne Harriet Fish, this was published in an issue of the British humor magazine "The Tatler." Fish, who periodically worked under her married name Anne Sefton Fish, is best known for her character "Eve," a coquettish flapper girl, whose exploits […]
Artist: Anne Harriet Fish
Price: $950.00
The story behind this original art deco pin up pastel by Rolf Armstrong provides a window into the artist's biography and the inner workings of the illustration business during the Great Depression. The work originally appeared as a Brown & Bigelow calendar with the title You'd Be Surprised. Like several other of Armstrong's surviving pastel […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: $18,500.00
Vintage 1930s Art Deco Pin Up Painting This original oil on canvas painting dates to the mid 1930s and features a Hollywood Regency styled image inspired by Ginger Rogers in black satin. The painting is unsigned and appears to be a published pin-up calendar illustration. Our hunch is that the artist is Edward D'Ancona, but […]
Artist: American Artist
Price: $3,500.00
