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Cardwell Higgins

This originalartowrk by Cardwell Higgins shows a beautiful brunette pin up showgirl which appeared onthe May, 1937 issue of Modern Girl Book Magazine.

Modern Girl Book Pin-up Girl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, pulp
Added to Gallery: January 12, 2018

Inspired by the work of Harry Clarke, this art deco nude avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins was titled by the artist “The Elements Involved”.

The Elements Involved

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, fine art, jazz age, nude, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2018

Restaurant Mayan This large Mayan themed stylized gouache illustration on board was created by Cardwell Higgins as a menu design and brochure cover for Rockefeller Center’s innovative Restaurant Mayan, 16 West 51st. Street, New York. A brochure printed for the opening of the restaurant which shows Higgins at work painting mural panels for the fabulous […]

The Mayan Room

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  $2,625.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, gouache, new york city
Added to Gallery: May 10, 2017

The Circle Of Life is an art deco allegorical avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins. This early offering by the renowned illustrator recalls the erotic and stylized work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley while considering man’s relationship to mortality. This is part of a series of similarly exotic and provocative drawings Higgins created between 1927 – 1929, which would much […]

The Circle Of Life

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, allegorical, art deco, avant-garde, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, Pen & Ink
Added to Gallery: February 21, 2017

From renowned American illustrator Cardwell Higgins comes this  pen & ink on artist’s paper illustration that was created for Eastern Airlines with a plane whizzing through the air showing the logo for the airlines by its tail–a logo that Higgins also designed. With progress-minded, art deco imagery, this aviation themed piece is framed alongside a portrait […]

Eastern Airlines Design & Presentation

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: aviation, Cardwell Higgins, illustration
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

This Orientalist art deco avant-garde pen & ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins is an early work by the renowned illustrator that recalls the erotic and stylized work of British artist Aubrey Beardsley. This is part of a series of similarly exotic and provocative drawings Higgins created between 1927 – 1929, which would much later be marketed as a series of […]

Dragon Lady

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, Charles Martignette, fantasy, fine art, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, machine age, risque
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait which was likely used as a cover for the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist’s hand as seen.

Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, erotic, flapper, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pre-code, Reel Movie Fun, risque, Verna Hillie
Added to Gallery: November 13, 2012

Offered here is an original piece of camera ready artwork–pen and ink with collage elements–created for billboard advertising usage during World War II.

All America’s Clicking!

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: advertising, Billboard, Cardwell Higgins, illustration, Knitting, Pen & Ink, USO, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 18, 2012

A finely executed dated 1927 pen & ink illustration on board by Cardwell Higgins with inventive art deco style. A Persian attired Orientalist showgirl is depicted in a burlesque vaudeville-era Ziegfeld Follies inspired theatrical production. The work recalls the erotic and stylized pen & ink works of British artist Aubrey Beardsley.

A Persian Orientalist Showgirl

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, burlesque, Cardwell Higgins, follies, nude, orientalist, spiritual, vaudeville
Added to Gallery: May 11, 2012

An inventive stylized colorful dated gouache advertising painting by Cardwell Higgins for “Aris Britland Doeskin” gloves. An inventive color palette and attention to fashion style details make this a compelling and inventive example. A tear sheet of the printed work from the artist’s scrapbook is included in the sale.

Aris Britland Doeskins

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, american, art deco, Cardwell Higgins, fashion, opera gloves, pin up
Added to Gallery: May 28, 2010

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