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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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The Bashful Stripper – A Beauty Parade Cover Girl by Peter Driben Clad in a blue and green striped, flesh-baring one piece costume and embroidered silk stockings, this shapely, blonde ecdysiast casts a come-hither gaze and inviting smile from underneath her unkempt golden locks that have fallen out of their pigtails. With hands rested on […]

Beauty Parade Cover Girl – The Bashful Stripper

Artist: Peter Driben
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Acrylic, Beauty Parade, Cover Art, Illustration Art, Peter Driben
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2021

Exotic Harem Cover Girl by John Drew This is an original c. 1920s–1930s oil on canvas painting by pulp artist and illustrator John Drew. An alluring glamour portrait, Drew has created an enchanting view of a raven-haired harem girl with gold headband draped across her forehead, matching gold earrings and arm cuff, and a colorful […]

Harem Beauty

Artist: John Drew
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, Cover Art, John Drew, oil painting, pin up
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2020

Victorian Cover Art by Archie Gunn This is a large format and racy (for the times) Victorian cover illustration for the long-running weekly periodical Truth Magazine. Created by illustrator Archie Gunn, this appeared as the cover for the January 13, 1894 edition with a title of “How Those Girls Love One Another”. Two girlfriends are […]

How Those Girls Love One Another

Artist: Archie Gunn
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1890s, Archie Gunn, Calendar, Cover Art, gouache, Norman Platnick, original illustration, Truth Magazine, victorian, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2020

New Idea Cover Girl This is a large, well conceived, and beautifully detailed watercolor on artist’s paper by illustrator Z.P. Nikolaki. It appeared as the cover for the April 1910 issue of New Idea Woman’s Magazine. In this portrait a pretty, young Edwardian maiden in a wide brimmed garden hat prepares for her daily stroll with […]

New Idea Magazine Cover

Artist: Z.P. Nikolaki
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, Cover Art, Edwardian, New Idea Woman's Magazine, Norman Platnick, original illustration, Watercolor, Z. P. Nikolaki
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2020

A Christmas Cover Girl by J. Knowles Hare This depiction of a pretty brown eyed coquettish beauty posed under the mistletoe was created as a cover illustration created for the December 1917 Christmas edition of American Magazine.  This lovely original J. Knowles Hare pastel is simply matted and framed under glass in a dark wood […]

Under the Mistletoe – A Christmas Cover Girl

Artist: J. Knowles Hare
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, American Magazine, christmas, Cover Art, J. Knowles Hare, Norman Platnick, pastel
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2020

Global Glamour – Typical Beauties on All Our War Fronts A fine surviving cover illustration painting by Henry Clive for the August 27, 1944 edition of “The American Weekly”, a Randolph Hearst publication. Clive enjoyed a three decade long association with this title, he often created serialized successive monthly covers of female heroines throughout history. […]

Global Glamour – Normandy

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Cover Art, gouache, Henry Clive, Norman Platnick, pin up, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2020

My Wild Irish Rose, a delicate beauty by Warde Traver This is an enchanting oil on board painting by American artist and illustrator Charles Warde Traver. A sophisticated portrait with Art Deco stylings, this painting features a beautiful brunette flapper in a rusted orange tunic who coyly fingers the beads of her green necklace while […]

My Wild Irish Rose

Artist: Warde Traver
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, Calendar, Charles Warde Traver, Cover Art, Norman Platnick, oil painting, Warde Traver
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2020

Hearst’s magazine cover art portrait by Penrhyn Stanlaws Soft and delicate, this pastel portrait by Scottish-American artist and illustrator Penrhyn Stanlaws captures the dainty beauty of an Edwardian society girl. The fair, rosy-cheeked brunette is draped in sheer fabrics and wears a sheer pink garden hat as she takes an afternoon stroll through a vibrant […]

Elegant Hearst’s Magazine Cover Girl

Artist: Penrhyn Stanlaws
Price: $5,500.00  $3,850.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, Cover Art, Hearst's Magazine, Norman Platnick, Penrhyn Stanlaws
Added to Gallery: June 5, 2020

  This small preliminary gouache painting on illustration board is by noted artist and illustrator Rafael Desoto. A red-lipped, blonde bad girl finds herself in the grip of a haunting, demon-like man who appears out of the flames behind her. In the 1950s DeSoto created many paperback book covers for such publishers as Ace, Bantam, […]

Consumed by the Flames

Artist: Rafael DeSoto
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Cover Art, illustration, paperback, pulp, Rafael DeSoto
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2018

George Petty created this dynamic original pin-up painting as cover art for the souvenir program for the 1946 Ice-Capades (the sixth year of its production which took place in New York City at Rockefeller Center). The image shows a modernist winged pin-up girl deftly soaring through the air on figure skates against a blue background. This particular […]

The Ice-Capades Of 1946

Artist: George Petty
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Cover Art, Figure Skating, George Petty, glamour, Golden Age, ice skating, Ice-Capades, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2017

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