Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Pin-Up Glamour Portraiture by Jules Erbit This is a dated 1942 pastel illustration created by Hungarian artist and illustrator Jules Erbit for The Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company. Titled, "Jeannie", this is a glamorous pin-up offering! Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major calendar companies of the day. He offered typically […]
Artist: Jules Erbit
Price: $2,500.00
For sale is an original 1938 art deco pastel glamour girl pin up pastel by Jules Erbit titled Judy, created for the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company.
Artist: Jules Erbit
Price: $4,500.00
Original pin up pastel from 1941 by Jules Erbit titled Yours Truly, for the Gerlach-Barklow company, Joliet, Illinois. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Jules Erbit
Price: $3,850.00
"Eyes That Invite" is a colorful and classic 1950 original glamour girl pin-up pastel by Pearl Frush and published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet Illinois. This was gifted by a salesman at Gerlach-Barklow to the Robberson Steel Company of Oklahoma City in appreciation for their lucrative advertising account.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: $3,500.00
A luminious beautiful original published mixed medium calendar illustration which appeared with the title Evening Reveries in the 1921 "Indian Maids" calendar line, for Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois. This was created by James Arthur who worked in a style like that of of L. Goddard, where a base photograph was lavishly over-painted by the artist […]
Artist: James Arthur
Price: Sold
This good girl art original pastel exemplifies the beauty and personality which kept pin up and glamour a mainstay of calendar imagery even after illustration began giving way to technicolor photography in popularity. This features a fresh faced auburn haired modernist beauty queen from 1975 envisioned by the leading female pin-up illustrator Pearl Frush and published by Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: S O L D
A radiant and pristine original pastel glamour pin-up illustration by Pearl Frush, created in 1944 and used in the 1945 Gerlach-Barklow calendar line under the title "Lovely as the Dawn". This really shows to great affect what Frush was able to create with her almost photo-realist in technique pastel mastery. Housed in its handsome original presentation frame properly lined behind glass with a verso tag from Robberson Steel Co. of Oklahoma who was gifted this pastel in exchange for their advertising.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: S O L D
"Angel Face" is a dazzling, nearly photo-realist 1959 original glamour girl pin-up pastel by Pearl Frush which was published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet Illinois. This was gifted by a salesman at Gerlach-Barklow to the Robberson Steel Company of Oklahoma City in appreciation for their lucrative advertising account. Pastel is in a pristine state of conservation in the original gold wide profile frame lined behind glass with plate on front with title and year of print publication.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: S O L D
This good girl art original pastel exemplifies the beauty and personality which kept pin up and glamour a mainstay of calendar imagery even after illustration began giving way to photography in popularity. This features a fresh faced brunette envisioned by the leading female pin-up illustrator Pearl Frush and published by Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois. It was customary for calendar salesmen to reward premiere advertising accounts with original illustrations as incentive to keep advertising with the firm.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: S O L D
A dazzling and scarce surviving commercial pin-up illustration by Pearl Frush Brudon, a successful female illustrator who worked in gouache and watercolors with a unique and spectacular photo realism to her works. A lovely red headed seductress of the 1940s appears in soft focus in this luminous work, signed lower right with the artist's married name.
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: S O L D
