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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
Price:  Sold

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

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.

Season’s Greetings

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,250.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, illustration
Added to Gallery: February 12, 2022

A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”

Out Of The Earth You Came 

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.

Playthings of Eternity

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins
Added to Gallery: February 11, 2022

This pen, ink, and gouache artwork is an early example by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins. A sublime offering in his art deco style, this shows a cityscape at night, with anonymous windows lit up throughout, menaced by a red bolt of lightning, suggesting the tremendous electric power humanity was trying to harness from nature in the early 20th century. 

The Furious Sky

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Great Depression
Added to Gallery: February 12, 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
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: 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

A Courtroom Circus by Jack Levitz Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges is a large, colorful, and well-executed 1930s Art Deco-era fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. A Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens, Levitz’s social realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This […]

Circus Performers on Trial Before Three Judges

Artist: Jack Levitz
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, burlesque, circus, Jack Levitz, oil painting, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2020

Newly uncovered original Gil Elvgren painting, overpainted by Vaughan Bass. A 1944 oil on canvas for Louis F. Dow.

What a Break – Overpaint

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

A Flapper Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely, masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows a stylized blue eyed flapper girl dressed for an evening on the town with a beaded roaring twenties dress and a jade green wrap and necklace. This pastel was […]

The Jade Necklace

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Calendar, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, Haskell Coffin, magazine cover, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2020

Redbook Cover by Haskell Coffin This romantic and dreamy pastel by the important pretty girl illustrator Haskell Coffin appeared as the cover of the July 1923 edition of Redbook magazine. In the 1920s, Redbook was one of the premiere fiction magazines in the country, with stories by authors ranging from Jack London to Edith Wharton. […]

A Red Book Cover Girl With Flowers

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Golden Age, Haskell Coffin, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, Original pastel, Red Book Magazine
Added to Gallery: July 1, 2020

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