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[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 […]

Come Be My Love

Artist: Wesley Snyder

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, gouache, interior illustration, The Saturday Evening Post, Wesley Snyder
Added to Gallery: June 20, 2022

This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.

The Flame Girl

Artist: Billy Devorss

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, blonde, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

World War II Home Front Honey by Rolf Armstrong Widely considered  “The Father of American Pin-Up”, Rolf Armstrong‘s luminous portraits of famous actresses and idealized girls-next-door made him one of the highest paid commercial artists in America; his pictures are noted for their grace, vibrancy, and indescribable lifelike quality. During the 1940s, Armstrong created a […]

I’ll Be Waiting

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar Art, Pastel Illustration, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery, World War II Pin-Up
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2021

[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 […]

Ship-Shape

Artist: K. O. Munson

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1940s, 1950s, Calendar Art, K. O. Munson, Pastel Illustration
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2021

Alluring Redhead Adores Her Beauty Clad in black lingerie that clings to her voluptuous figure and, in some places, is bursting at the seams, this luscious, redheaded pin-up girl sits on the floor in front of a makeup case and holds a mirror in her hand, which she uses to admire her perfectly painted face. […]

This Is Adoration

Artist: Howard Connolly

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Calendar Art, Charles Martignette, Howard Connolly, oil painting
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2021

Boy Scouts camping scene by Hy Hintermeister

The Boy Scouts of America Camping Scene On offer  is a small, detailed yet likely a preliminary gouache illustration by Hy Hintermeister featuring two Boy Scouts showing off their survival and camping skills while out in the wild. The uniformed scouts are preparing hearty meals over an open fire while also constructing a shelter with […]

Boy Scouts Camping Scene

Artist: Hy Hintermeister

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, 1940s, camping, gouache, Henry Hintermeister, Hy Hintermeister, John Henry Hintermeister, The Boy Scouts of America
Added to Gallery: January 27, 2021

An original painting by Fred Rodewald which appeared as the cover of the December, 1949 edition of the digest pulp fiction title Exotic Novel Magazine.

Buy My Love

Artist: Fred Rodewald

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, erotic, Fred Rodewald, glamour, Golden Age, lurid, original cover art, Peggy Gaddis, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2020

Fair and Warmer by Arnold Armitage We are ecstatic to offer this never before on the market pin-up painting by artist Arnold Armitage. This piece was published in the late 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota with the title “Fair and Warmer”. The image also appeared on a trade stimulator […]

Fair and Warmer

Artist: Arnold Armitage

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, Calendar, Louis F. Dow, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

Off Her Pins, a classic cheesecake pin-up girl by Arnold Armitage This is a fresh-to-the-market pin-up calendar painting by Arnold Armitage published in the 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. This bowling themed cheesecake offering features a classic situational mishap scene wherein a brunette in a flirty red ensemble finds […]

Off Her Pins

Artist: Arnold Armitage

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, cheesecake, Louis F. Dow, oil painting
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

This is a  C.1940 pastel illustration created by Hungarian artist and illustrator Jules Erbit for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Titled, “Betty”, this is a glamorous pin-up offering of a pretty blue-eyed girl with flushed, rosy cheeks and inviting red lips. Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major […]

Betty

Artist: Jules Erbit

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Jules Erbit, Norman Platnick, pastel
Added to Gallery: August 5, 2020

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