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Off Her Pins, a classic cheesecake pin-up girl by Arnold Armitage This is a fresh-to-the-market pin-up calendar painting by Arnold Armitage published in the 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota. This bowling themed cheesecake offering features a classic situational mishap scene wherein a brunette in a flirty red ensemble finds […]

Off Her Pins

Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, cheesecake, Louis F. Dow, oil painting
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

This is a classic example of vintage American pin up art, featuring a brunette in fashionable red ensemble with heart shaped hat. The model wears a classic cheesecake “ooh” face. Signed lower right by the artist Hagan. This is just darling, housed in the simple original wood frame.

A Vision In Red

Artist: Hagan
Price: $1,200.00 $840.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, cheesecake, glamour, Golden Age, Hagan, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2019

      This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist’s “Embarrassment Series” images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to […]

Spare?

Artist: Art Frahm
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Bowling, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

      This is a fun, well-conceived, and luminous original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm that appeared in the 1947 Louis F. Dow Calendar Company line under the title Cute Trick. In this oil on canvas painting, a startled, pretty young blonde is catching up on some late night reading when she is […]

Cute Trick

Artist: Art Frahm
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Art Frahm, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, glamour, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

Grapefruit Moon Gallery is thrilled to announce the acquisition of the extensive, detailed, and comprehensive estate of photographer and pin-up model Bunny Yeager. Described as “the world’s greatest pin-up photographer” by Diane Arbus, and best-remembered for her iconic collaborations with Bettie Page, Yeager’s body of work includes over five decades of spectacular, and groundbreaking celebrations […]

The Estate of Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, cheesecake, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up
Added to Gallery: October 13, 2018

The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota commissioned this pristine and rare surviving pin-up painting by Art Frahm for publication in their 1941 calendar line under the title “Three Point Landing.” The image shows an underdressed, startled redhead having an “oops” moment as her hammock string has broken causing her along with […]

Three Point Landing

Artist: Art Frahm
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Art Frahm, cheesecake, glamour, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: February 9, 2018

An original oil on board illustration used as the cover for Joker No.16 – a 1949 digest sized magazine advertising “More Snappy Cartoons – Smack Full of Laughter!” A leggy, busty and quintessentially Driben pin-up beauty is seen trying her hand at a little “sofa fission” as the caption will have you know. Illustration is in a fine state of conservation, nicely framed and matted in a period, wide profile, handsome, gesso art deco frame.

Fission N’ Funnin’

Artist: Peter Driben
Price: $6,500.00 $4,550.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cheesecake, erotic, Joker, magazine cover, original cover art, Peter Driben, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: November 4, 2017

This Jane Russell inspired Americana cheesecake pin up illustration graced the September 1957 page of Bill Randall’s “Randall’s Date Book” calendar.

Nikki in the Hayloft

Artist: Bill Randall
Price: $5,500.00 $3,850.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Bill Randall, cheesecake, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 17, 2017

A 1949 Western Americana cowgirl themed gouache on illustration board which comes directly from the archives of the 100-year-old San Francisco ad agency/lithography company “Stecher-Traung & Schmidt.” The work is in the style of George Petty, and Ben-Hur Baz. Among other noted artists Stecher-Traug employed Gil Elvgren, E.B. Segner & Mary Mayo. This commissioned illustration is dated and inkstamped in the lower corner but is unsigned. Work is beautifully framed and matted in a period ornate gesso frame.

A Cowgirl Shooter

Artist: Unknown
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, american, cheesecake, cowgirl, illustration, original illustration art, pin up, Stecher-Traung, western
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2016

An iconic early original pin up oil painting by Gil Elvgren for the Louis F. Dow calendar company of Saint Paul, Minnesota titled “A Hitch in Time.” In this never before offered published calendar work, a pretty modernist pin up girl is caught hitching up her sexy silk stockings in a hurried moment while tangled […]

A Hitch in Time

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cheesecake, Gil Elvgren, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, pin up, stockings, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2014

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