A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,250.00
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,250.00
A beautiful original 1930 dated pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Out of the earth you came.”
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins titled “Playthings of Eternity.” A stunning example from the prolific illustrator.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: Sold
For sale is a Cardwell Higgins original advertising painting of silent film Hollywood stars Dolores del Rio & Don Alvarado in “The Loves of Carmen” (1927).
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $2,000.00
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.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: Sold
This pen and ink drawing with gouache highlights is an early work by renowned illustrator Cardwell Higgins and a sublime example of his art deco style.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $1,950.00
This 1926 pastel by Cardwell Higgens was created for an exhibitor’s book produced by Paramount Pictures to promote their silent film star Florence Vidor.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: Sold
A 1942 original pastel on board by Cardwell Higgins created for an advertising display sign for “Adola Brassieres”. Higgins executed a series of these images all with erotically charged pin-up girl style and often times set in Hawaii as in this example. This is the only known surviving pastel from this campaign, the text on the die-cut display created from the artwork read “The Secret To a Lovely Figure”.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $3,500.00
A signed original pastel on illustration board from the late 1930’s by the artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins of a modernist blonde showgirl.
Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price: $4,500.00
Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art. We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.
Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.
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