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Alex Ross

Alexander Sharpe Ross original artwork, a Redbook Magazine illustration for an installment in their serialized publication of Blackboard Jungle.

Blackboard Jungle

Artist: Alex Ross
Price:  $2,000.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Alex Ross, Blackboard Jungle, Golden Age, lurid, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Redbook Magazine
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2018

This large, innovative and sophisticatedly composed gouache by Alexander Sharpe Ross was created as an interior illustration for the April 1949 Cosmopolitan Magazine story The Small Vice of Alicia Crispin by Cynthia Hathaway. Ross was a leading American illustrator of the time and worked as cover artist for Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators—Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, Norman Rockwell—Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades.

The Small Vice of Alicia Crispin

Artist: Alex Ross
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alex Ross, american, lurid, noir, original interior illustration, pin up, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: April 15, 2007

This large and colorful noir montage by Alexander Sharpe Ross was created as an interior illustration for a mid 1950’s American mainstream slick magazine. Ross was a leading American illustrator of the time with work featured on the covers of Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators — Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker, and Norman Rockwell — Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades.

Mid-Century Voodoo Doll

Artist: Alex Ross
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Alex Ross, american, boudoir, glamour, lurid, noir, original interior illustration, pin up, slick magazine, voodoo
Added to Gallery: January 15, 2007

A large and moody defining interior illustration for a mid 1950’s edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine by Alexander Sharpe Ross, titled A Weeping Violet. Ross was a leading American illustrator in the 1940s and 50s, with work featured on the covers of Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies Home Journal and Colliers. Along with a handful of key illustrators — Coby Whitmore, John Whitcomb, Al Parker and Norman Rockwell — Ross helped create an indelible image of Americans in the post WWII decades.

A Weeping Violet

Artist: Alex Ross
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Alex Ross, original interior illustration, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 31, 2006

 

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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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