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Al Buell

    This original gouache and ink Al Buell published pin up was painted in 1959 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company, and first appeared as the June 1961 image for a 12 page calendar titled Buell’s Beauties. The model appears as an artist, brush in hand, in this colorful mid-century modernist calendar painting. […]

Buell’s Beauties – June 1961

Artist: Al Buell
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Tagged With: 1950s, Al Buell, american, Brown & Bigelow, original calendar art, pin up, sketchbook
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2014

A searingly seductively blonde takes the stand in this hard boiled, pulp fiction inspired 1949 pin-up painting by Al Buell. Working for the Louis F. Dow calendar company under the pseudonym Al Leslie (Leslie was the artist’s middle name), Buell created this leggy, impish bad girl, a scandalous vixen reminiscent of the defiant film noir heroines who graced the screen in this post-war period.

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Artist: Al Buell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Al Buell, american, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, pin up, pulp, stockings
Added to Gallery: November 12, 2010

A rare and fabulous surviving commissioned calendar art pin-up painting by Al Buell titled on verso A Perfect Pair. From a series of paintings Buell did for Brown & Bigelow, The Playmate Series. This was for the month of October and dates to the late 1940s. Buell worked with Gil Elvgren in the Sundblom studios in Chicago and his accounts included Coca-Cola. His oils are among the best in the genre, they capture the pretty girl next door (albeit generally under-dressed) and have a wholesomeness rare in the pin-up form.

A Perfect Pair

Artist: Al Buell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Al Buell, american, Brown & Bigelow, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: November 2, 2010

A well rendered, colorful and new to the market Al Buell oil painting on board likely for an Interior story in Redbook Magazine. Al Buell did frequent images for leading Calendar Companies creating glamorous pin-up depictions, he also glorified the American Girl in period magazines. Work is framed and signed lower left.

Admiring a Glamorous Woman

Artist: Al Buell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Al Buell, american, glamour, original interior illustration, pin up, Redbook Magazine
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2008

From the double entendre school of classic pin-up art, Grapefruit Moon Gallery is proud to offer this original oil on canvas by Al Buell for The Osborne Calendar Company. Work is titled “Come and Get It”, and is pictured in “The Great American Pin-up” on page 107 color plate #209. This spirited surviving commissioned work is beautifully matted and framed and ready to hang. Al Buell was a prolific pin-up artist who was trained by Haddon Sundblom, and worked in the luminous commercial style of Sundblom and Gil Elvgren. He worked for numerous calendar companies throughout his career and contributed pin-ups for Esquire Magazine, additionally the artist created numerous Calendar Girls for the Coca-Cola company during the 1940’s – 50s.

Come and Get It

Artist: Al Buell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Al Buell, erotic, Great American Pin-up, original calendar art, Osborne Calendar Co, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2008

A dazzling, acrobatic pin-up girl by Al Buell created on commission for the Osborne Calendar Company. This dramatic view is set against a big top trapeze backdrop and pops against the stark black backdrop. Original pin-up works by Al Buell are quite rare, and this fine original artwork exemplifies his unique and masterful style. This bright fresh oil on board comes very nicely framed and matted, condition is pristine.

A Balanced Beam

Artist: Al Buell
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Al Buell, circus, good girl art, illustration, original calendar art, Osborne Calendar Co, pin up
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2007

 

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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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