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A rare and never before on the market painting by Gil Elvgren, this exceptional piece is the epitome of pin-up calendar art!

Gone With the Wind

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  $52,000.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, bathing beauty, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, Louis F. Dow, nude, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2022

Bettie Page by Bunny Yeager Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page wearing a bikini designed and handmade by Bunny. Bettie is vamping hard for the camera in this cheesecake pin-up photo from her perch on a pier at Miami Beach, Florida. This was taken […]

Bettie Page Seated on Pier

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, bathing beauty, Bettie Page, bikini, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, ocean, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: August 25, 2019

Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line.  It was published with the title Fishermans’s Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]

Fisherman’s Luck

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, fishing, glamour, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pastel, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 4, 2019

This breezy pin-up calendar illustration by Fitz William Boynton depicts a sassy redheaded flapper girl with bobbed red hair enjoying a day at the beach with Scottie dog in tow. A vintage salesman sample of the calendar image is included in the sale – image was titled “Adorable”.  As long time pin-up collectors and dealers, […]

Adorable

Artist: Fitz Boynton
Price:  $2,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Calendar, erotic, Fitz William Boynton, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, jazz age, pastel, pin up, risque, scottie dog
Added to Gallery: May 7, 2019

    Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page on the shores of Key Biscayne during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both women’s careers. The large format 15″ x 15″ silver gelatin print was custom hand printed and colored by hand by […]

Bettie Page Clutching Her Hair at Key Biscayne

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, bathing beauty, beach, Bettie Page, bikini, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2019

As long as there has been sand, secluded coves, calm lakes, vast oceans and hot days, people have taken to the waters for health, exercise, fun, and community. Once just a summer retreat for those who lived close to a shore or the wealthy, mass transportation and motorcars turned a day at the beach into […]

Dreaming of Summer with “Swim Easy” Swimsuits

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, bathing beauty, fashion
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2019

William Medcalf, the top tier pin-up artist and illustrator created this engaging bathing beauty pin-up as a preliminary artwork for the storied Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota.

She Loves Me

Artist: William Medcalf
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, glamour, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, William Medcalf
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2018

Dating to approximately 1910, this large and expertly rendered gouache painting likely was used as magazine advertising art for Kodak Cameras in American weekly magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post. This bears a Forbes Litho Company of Boston ad agency verso label and bears the name of “Thompson” on the back of the illustration board, the artist is unidentified at this point. Titled “Vacation Requirement” this is great early 20th century advertising Americana treasure with a stylish Edwardian attired family cooling off at the beach.

Vacation Requirement

Artist: Unknown
Price:  $2,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, advertising, american, bathing beauty, Edwardian, illustration, Kodak Camera
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2017

A stylish and decidedly art deco cover illustration for the September 9th, 1939 issue of Liberty magazine, painted by the prolific illustrator Victor Tchetchet. Depicting a Carole Lombard-esque blonde bombshell in a Diana the Huntress mythological pose. Dedicated and inscribed to the fabled Hollywood film producer Otto Preminger, as seen lower right. Painting has been handsomely […]

Diana The Huntress

Artist: Victor Tchetchet
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, Liberty, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp, risque, Victor Tchetchet
Added to Gallery: May 27, 2017

A whimsical and stylized rare original gouache painting on illustration board by Anne Harriet Sefton a.k.a. Fish; this was the cover for The April 1919 edition of Vanity Fair Magazine published by Conde Nast. Work is in the humorous yet refined swinging youth style that came to personify the art deco Jazz Age. Painting is silk matted and beautifully framed in a period antique gold gilt wood frame under glass.

The Gondola Ride

Artist: Anne Harriet Fish
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, flapper, gondola, high society, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, Vanity Fair
Added to Gallery: April 21, 2017

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