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Earl Moran

Jean Harlow by Earl Moran

Jean Harlow, Earl Moran, and the Golden Age of Hollywood This beguiling pastel on artist’s paper was created by artist and illustrator Earl Moran as cover art for one of the many countless movie magazine titles in circulation during the Golden Age of Hollywood. We are, at this time, unable to find a published example […]

Jean Harlow

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, blonde, Earl Moran, Jean Harlow, Original pastel
Added to Gallery: May 4, 2020

Earl Moran created this iconic published pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1946 calendar line.  It was published with the title “The Doctor Said I Needed Glasses”. The image shows a pretty blonde, enjoying a libation in a cordial glass, her inviting smile and legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a […]

The Doctor Said I Needed Glasses

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sale Pending

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, blonde, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, Golden Age, illustration, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: October 28, 2019

Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line.  It was published with the title Fishermans’s Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]

Fisherman’s Luck

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, fishing, glamour, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pastel, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 4, 2019

      Our Gallery previously sold this pastel in April of 2015; we are very pleased to offer it again for sale! Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer one of the finest Earl Moran pastels ever available for sale. Titled Now, This Is Just Between You And Me, this showcases the young Blue […]

Now, This Is Just Between You And Me

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold, Uncategorized
Tagged With: Blue Book Model Agency, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.

Smooth

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  $10,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, Calendar, Earl Moran, flapper, Golden Age, petroliana, pin up, Richlube Oil, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 4, 2018

This jubilant pastel portrait of a young beaming pre-code chorine is an early signed offering by the famed pin-up artist Earl Moran. Dating to the early 1930s, the image appears to feature a young Alice Faye, who made her Broadway debut in George White’s Scandals in 1931 and made the move to Hollywood when the film version of the show was produced in 1934.

Blonde Chorine

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Alice Faye, blonde, Earl Moran, Golden Age, Original pastel
Added to Gallery: August 6, 2018

A fabulous c. 1940s original pin up pastel by Earl Moran created for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN.

The Chamber Maid

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  $10,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, fadeaway girl, lingerie, original calendar art, pin up, risque
Added to Gallery: February 25, 2018

This 1949 Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company commissioned pin-up pastel is one of the finest examples by Earl Moran we have encountered. A redheaded heart-breaker on a then state of the art mid-century modern phone asks the viewer and the caller to “Remember Me?” in a classic pin-up entanglement loaded with double entendre. Earl Moran was a master of light and shadow and this large and commanding artwork is a monument to his talent.

Remember Me?

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Great American Pin-up, mid-century, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This 1948 Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company commissioned pastel by Earl Moran is a large and defining example of American pin up. A pretty blonde pin-up girl is posed on a mid-century modern Heywood Wakefield office desk with a phone in one hand. The title “Call Again” is a witty take on an office secretary and her private hours. Condition is pristine in a custom made lined gallery frame with fitted corners behind ultraviolet glass. A 1948 Brown & Bigelow advertising calendar of the image is included with sale.

Call Again

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, mid-century, original calendar art, pin up, secretary
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

A boldly colored and tightly rendered likely preliminary pastel pin-up illustration by Earl Moran, showing an art deco sailor girl living the life aquatic. This dates to the late 1930s, as the outbreak of war in Europe caused both a premonition of America’s eventual involvement into what would become World War II, and a boost in industrial production (particularly shipbuilding) […]

Ahoy

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Great Depression, navy, pin up, risque, sailor
Added to Gallery: December 1, 2014

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