Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida in a pair of curve-hugging hot pants and a fuzzy bandeau […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin-up self-portrait in 1953.
Artist: Bunny Yeager
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, Florida during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both women’s careers. This gelatin silver print is 4 of an edition of 10, signed by the artist on the verso. […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
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 […]
Artist: Bunny Yeager
This delicately rendered original signed Pearl Frush watercolor pin-up illustration titled “Miss Gulf Coast”, was created for the 1947 Aqua Tour Series of bathing beauty images for the Shaw-Barton Calendar Company of Coshocton, Ohio. Pearl Frush was a prolific and talented female artist that was active during the 1940s and 50s and worked primarily out of Chicago. Painting is silk-matted and framed behind glass in a gorgeous wide profile museum quality gallery frame, signed lower right and verso is notated with usage publication text.
Artist: Pearl Frush
This cheeky and colorful original gouache cover illustration painting by the well listed Wisconsin artist Lester Bentley graced the cover of Rogue For Men Magazine, August 1956. Both Lloyd Rognan and Lester Bentley were encouraged as cover artists for Rogue to have fun with their mascot–a caddish, happy go lucky, wolf of distinction. This cover features the Rogue Wolf seaside preparing a beverage in a streamlined art deco cocktail shaker for his bathing beauty companion; bottoms up indeed! Nicely framed and matted behind glass and ready to hang.
Artist: Lester Bentley
An original Gil Elvgren pin-up oil painting created in 1952 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul Minnesota. This curvy pin-up beauty appeared under the title “Hard To Suit,” a pun the copy department liked so much they used it again in 1954 to describe an Elvgren girl disrobing from her duck hunting garb to reveal lingerie. This is the prototypical Elvgren girl in a comically harrowing and skin revealing pin-up entanglement with the artist’s classic pursed lip expression that evokes surprise, embarrassment and provocation.
Artist: Gil Elvgren
A dramatic and artfully posed gelatin silver original photograph by Edward Bower Hesser taken along the secluded shores of the California Coast. A pretty model in a dancers pose which brings to mind the nude imagery of Edward Weston another noted nude Pictoralist who worked in Southern California during the 1920s – 30s art deco jazz-age. From an Allied Artist’s Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his “Art’s Monthly Pictorial” photography magazine for artists and art students.
Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser
