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Original Art Deco-era children’s book illustration art by Lucille Murphy (signed and dated lower right). For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Whimsical Children’s Book Illustration

Artist: Lucille Murphy

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, illustration, Lucille Murphy, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2018

For sale is an original 1938 art deco pastel glamour girl pin up pastel by Jules Erbit titled Judy, created for the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company.

Judy

Artist: Jules Erbit

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Calendar, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, glamour, good girl art, Jules Erbit, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2018

Original pin up pastel from 1941 by Jules Erbit titled Yours Truly, for the Gerlach-Barklow company, Joliet, Illinois. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

Yours Truly

Artist: Jules Erbit

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, glamour, good girl art, illustration, Jules Erbit, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2018

This large original arwork by James Montgomery Flagg, attests to the friendship between peers during the Golden Age of Illustration.

Ham Fisher And Three Nudes

Artist: James Montgomery Flagg

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, erotic, fine art, Golden Age, Ham Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Joe Palooka, lurid, nude, pin up, pirate, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 6, 2018

Liberty magazine commissioned this painting by Harold Von Schmidt for an excerpt from The Red Napoleon, a 1929 “future history” novel by Floyd Gibbons.

The Red Napoleon

Artist: Harold von Schmidt

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Golden Age, Harold von Schmidt, Liberty, original illustration art, original interior illustration, Russia, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2018

A decorative and extreme Art Deco/Machine Age pen and ink advertising drawing by Cardwell Higgins for the 1927 Cadillac Convertible. Work is signed and dated lower right and beautifully framed and matted behind glass; from the estate of Charles Martignette. Higgins was an accomplished draftsman and had a keen eye for design and graphics as seen in this smartly rendered work.

The 1927 Cadillac Convertible

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, advertising, american, art deco, automobilia, Cadillac, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, industrial age, jazz age, machine age
Added to Gallery: August 9, 2018

We are pleased to have this original pastel by the talented and prolific pin-up artist and illustrator R. Wilson Hammell. This Spanish attired, flapper girl envisioning of Joan Crawford was created either as a calendar art print for The Joseph Hoover Calendar Company or an early talkie movie era Magazine Cover. Crawford was an eager publicity hound in the early 1930’s filling the void created by the elusive Garbo, who refused any publicity during the era of Crawford’s ascendancy to stardom.

A Dashing Joan Crawford

Artist: R. Wilson Hammell

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, gypsy, hollywood, Joan Crawford, magazine cover, original calendar art, R. Wilson Hammell, spanish
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2018

This fresh to the market lively cover painting by Earle K. Bergey appeared as the cover of the winter 1948 issue of the Better Publications title Cartoon Humor. A breezy co-ed pin-up girl in a form fitting red sweater enjoys a snowy sled ride frolic, sending a good natured but clearly over the hill dandy into the powder. He […]

Cartoon Humor Sled Ride

Artist: Earle K. Bergey

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Earle K. Bergey, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2018

      On offer is a remarkable published pulp cover painting by Lejaren Hiller (American, 1880-1969), titled Absinthe, for Flynn’s Weekly Detective Fiction Magazine – April 21, 1928. Between 1924 and 1939, the artist created hundreds of covers for this long running title, and this is among the most captivating. The image showcases an up-to-the-minute smoking flapper girl feeling strangely […]

Absinthe

Artist: Lejaren Hiller

Filed Under: Paperback & Pulp Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, flapper, Golden Age, illustration, Lejaren Hiller, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, portrait, pulp, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 17, 2018

“I came like water and like wind I go,” reads the verse which inspired this wonderful signed gouache illustration by Willy Pogany, one of our favorite Golden age artists. The image shows a nude maiden on a serene ledge in contemplation of the leaves blowing in the breeze. This appearedas an illustration for the 1942 […]

Like Wind I Go

Artist: Willy Pogany

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Golden Age, illustration, original illustration art, risque, Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, Willy Pogany
Added to Gallery: June 1, 2018

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