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Original pin up painting by Gil Elvgren for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery. “He was neither a gentleman or a sculler,” Oil on canvas, Brown & Bigelow, 1948

He Was Neither A Gentleman Nor A Sculler

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1940s, aquatic, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, oil painting, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2020

Drying Nets – Mont Saint Pierre is an antique 1930s signed oil on canvas painting by the important American artist and illustrator John Clymer, signed lower right and titled on the back stretcher bar in the artist’s hand. The work is a fine American impressionist painting with dazzling impasto work, particularly on the nets being hoisted and […]

Drying Nets – Mont Saint Pierre

Artist: John Clymer
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: aquatic, arts & crafts, fine art, fishing, John Clymer, plein-air, Quebec Canada
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2017

  In this whimsically imaginative drawing from the German expressionist and Jugendstil artist Heinrich Kley, a nude water nymph, whose form and pose evoke Venus, frightens away a sea demon as her consort, a dolphin of sorts, looks on laughing. In this mixed medium detailed work, Kley inverts the viewers expectation of women’s sensuality in […]

Nude Nymph & Sea Demon

Artist: Heinrich Kley
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, aquatic, art nouveau, erotic, fantasy, german, german expressionism, grotesque, Heinrich Kley, Jugendstil, nude, nymph, vienna secessionist
Added to Gallery: January 1, 2017

A dazzling and evocative gouache illustration painting for a 1972 edition of Hans Cristian Andersen’s classic tale “The Little Mermaid”. A shining deftly rendered example in the manner of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. Work is matted and framed and signed by the artist lower left and titled in the margin lower right.

The Little Mermaid

Artist: Harold Thompson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, aquatic, Arthur Rackham, fairy tale, fantasy, Hans Christian Andersen, Harold Thompson, Little Mermaid, mermaid, nymph, original interior illustration, sea siren
Added to Gallery: January 23, 2016

This period 1930s signed oil on stretched canvas painting was created by the New York state fine artist and illustrator Robert T. Riley. With a social realist / WPA styled grittiness, Riley captures the hardscrapple life of deck hands hard at work, while eluding to the anxieties of the Great Depression. The stylized rigging suggests the mechanization of the Industrial revolution, and the sailors pulling up the sails find their muscles strained to the point of breaking in an homage to John Henry.

The Deck Hands

Artist: Robert Riley
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: aquatic, Robert Riley, sailor, ship, WPA
Added to Gallery: July 2, 2012

A tense and well rendered set at sea Golden Age of Illustration painting by the noted and prolific American artist Ralph Pallen Coleman, signed and dated 1925 in the lower right corner. Set aboard a ship at sea, the image hints that the vessel is heading into troubled waters at least metaphorically. While the well groomed male calmly prepares to light his pipe, his pretty flapper companion holds her hand over her heart, both attracted to and made nervous by taking this trip with her suitor.

Alone On This Boat

Artist: Ralph Coleman
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, aquatic, art nouveau, flapper, Golden Age, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Ralph Coleman
Added to Gallery: March 28, 2012

Grapefruitmoongallery is proud to offer one of 3 original commissioned large circular oil paintings that adorned the restaurant walls of Larue’s a legendary Hollywood, Sunset Blvd. haunt that was owned by gangster character actor Jack LaRue. Henry Clive was a frequent patron and close friend of LaRue, and this painting, titled Spirit of Capri was purchased directly from the restaurant about 45 years ago by the artist’s son Henry Clive O’Hara. In addition to being a prolific cover illustrator for Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly, Clive painted several large risque and attention garnering commissioned mural works for Hollywood landmarks like The Jade and The Masquers Club as well as LaRue’s.

Spirit Of Capri

Artist: Henry Clive
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Tagged With: 1950s, american, aquatic, art deco, fine art, Henry Clive, hollywood, LaRue's, mural, nymph, sunset boulevard, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: December 13, 2011

A large and important exhibited American impressionist oil painting by the Boston artist Arthur Prince Spear, 1879-1959. The painting features an outstanding large ethereal and luminous trio of sea nymphs in silhouette – ablaze at sea under a full moon. This is painted in an impressionist style with a textured heavy impasto technique. Housed in its original carved gold leaf wood frame.

Nets of Silver and Gold

Artist: Arthur Prince Spear
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, aquatic, Arthur Prince Spear, impressionist, moon, nymph, Vose Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 9, 2011

An original pastel sketch of an aquatically themed pin-up girl in a sailors cap by the prolific American pin-up artist Earl Steffa Moran. This is not a finished calendar pastel it was either a preliminary sketch for his 1941 Brown & Bigelow Calendar “I’ll be Seeing You” or was a presentation drawing given as a gift to a fan, friend or family member. This is 100% guaranteed to be an original pastel by Earl Moran; it is signed in the lower left corner and there is a verso note in the artist’s hand as seen on the back of the frame. Beautifully matted and framed behind glass and ready to enjoy.

Earl Moran Sailor Girl Sketch

Artist: Earl Moran
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Tagged With: 1940s, aquatic, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, pin up, sailor, study
Added to Gallery: May 7, 2011

This radiant, fabulously large original pastel by Rolf Armstrong was created in 1941 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Titled “Figured To Win,” this original and previously undocumented beautiful illustration incorporates two of the artist’s great loves in life; sailing and Jewel Flowers. This pastel was owned for many years by Jewel herself, who was Armstrong’s favorite model and dearest friend for nearly two decades.

Figured To Win

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, aquatic, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Great American Pin-up, Jewel Flowers, original calendar art, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, sailor, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2010

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