Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
The story behind this original art deco pin up pastel by Rolf Armstrong provides a window into the artist's biography and the inner workings of the illustration business during the Great Depression. The work originally appeared as a Brown & Bigelow calendar with the title You'd Be Surprised. Like several other of Armstrong's surviving pastel […]
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: $18,500.00
This fabulous original Film Fun cover painting by Enoch Bolles appeared on their September 1933 edition with the title Worth Wading For. In an effort to make the most of the end of summer, a flirty modernist red-headed bathing beauty flapper girl dares the cold water as she embarks on her first […]
Artist: Enoch Bolles
Price: $45,000.00
This oil on canvas painting by Reginald Bolles is a classic example of Golden Age illustration and was likely created as cover art for an American glossy magazine in the 1920s. Showcasing a smartly attired flapper girl in a cloche hat closely admiring a cherry tree branch with a birds nest attached that is filled […]
Artist: Reginald Bolles
Price: SOLD
This breezy pin-up calendar illustration by Fitz William Boynton depicts a sassy redheaded flapper girl with bobbed red hair enjoying a day at the beach with Scottie dog in tow. A vintage salesman sample of the calendar image is included in the sale - image was titled "Adorable". As long time pin-up collectors and dealers, […]
Artist: Fitz Boynton
Price: $2,500.00
Art Deco / Great Depression era pen and ink illustration by the social satirist Anne Harriet Fish, this was published in the British magazine "The Tatler."
Artist: Anne Harriet Fish
Price: $1,250.00
Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $15,000.00
Early Rolf Armstrong artwork, created as 1919 sheet music cover. Provenance includes the collection of Kenneth Anger, author of Hollywood Babylon.
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: $11,500.00
Dazzling original pin up by Billy Devorss from the art deco era, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Billy Devorss
Price: $5,500.00
We are pleased to have this original pastel by the talented and prolific pin-up artist and illustrator R. Wilson Hammell. This Spanish attired, flapper girl envisioning of Joan Crawford was created either as a calendar art print for The Joseph Hoover Calendar Company or an early talkie movie era Magazine Cover. Crawford was an eager publicity hound in the early 1930's filling the void created by the elusive Garbo, who refused any publicity during the era of Crawford's ascendancy to stardom.
Artist: R. Wilson Hammell
Price: $4,500.00
On offer is a remarkable published pulp cover painting by Lejaren Hiller (American, 1880-1969), titled Absinthe, for Flynn's Weekly Detective Fiction Magazine - April 21, 1928. Between 1924 and 1939, the artist created hundreds of covers for this long running title, and this is among the most captivating. The image showcases an up-to-the-minute smoking flapper girl feeling strangely […]
Artist: Lejaren Hiller
Price: $8,500.00
