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A spectacular and otherworldly Edwin Georgi gouache painting on illustration board in a color palette so unusual it could only have been envisioned by this particular artist. A pair of lovers literally and metaphorically going different ways in their relationship sensing the distance between them, both nattily attired and icy cold in disposition. Published in an as of yet determined slick magazine (likely Redbook or Cosmopolitan) as a full color interior story illustration circa 1950s.

Two on a Match

Artist: Edwin Georgi

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is a thrilling, vintage and original, grayscale gouache on board by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1960s men’s magazine art, this high-stakes, action-packed illustration was likely published as an interior illustration of a men’s adventure magazine. Excitement abounds in […]

Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration

Artist: Samson Pollen

A beautiful original late 1920s pen and ink drawing by Cardwell Higgins designed as greeting card art.

Season’s Greetings

Artist: Cardwell Higgins

Original Art by Gene Pressler This beautifully well-preserved pastel painting is by American artist and illustrator Gene Pressler. With a rich color palette and Pressler’s signature glow, this pastel features a rosy-cheeked blue eyed stylish Edwardian in attire lass. We assume this was created sometime in the 1910s as magazine cover art but thus far […]

A Blue Eyed Lass

Artist: Gene Pressler

A Metropolitan Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows demure sad eyed flapper girl in a floating head styled popularized by Rolf Armstrong. Pastel was created as the cover for the May, 1920 edition of Metropolitan Magazine. Pastel […]

A Wispy Beauty – Cover For Metroplitan Magazine

Artist: Haskell Coffin

Flapper Girl with Fan by Charles Allan Gilbert On offer is a lovely pastel illustration by C. Allan Gilbert. It depicts a stylish flapper girl in a pretty beaded black dress with a large ostrich plume hand fan. It is our hunch that was created for the calendar market. It is signed in the upper […]

Flapper Girl with Fan

Artist: Charles Allan Gilbert

Carole Lombard, 1933 This dazzling pastel created as cover art for a Golden Age Hollywood movie magazine showcases Carole Lombard against a cobalt blue background. Prominently featured is the dazzling star sapphire ring then-husband William Powell gave her as a gift in 1931–the first of many star sapphires the star would collect over the years. […]

Carole Lombard

Artist: Ed Dow

Mystery and Style, the Work of Daniel Content Offered here is a vintage and original gouache on board illustration created by artist and illustrator Daniel Content. Dating to the 1940s, this comes from later in Content’s career as a creator of published works. He would, in the 1950s, transition from artist to art director. Filled […]

Veiled Mystery Woman

Artist: Daniel Content

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is an exceptionally rendered, exceedingly sexy, vintage and original gouache on board grayscale illustration by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1970s men’s magazine art, this heady, thrilling illustration was published in a November 1970 issue of For Men Only […]

Gridiron Nymph

Artist: Samson Pollen

Original Men’s Adventure Magazine Illustration by Samson Pollen Offered here is an extensive, vintage and original, gouache on board illustration done in grayscale by the prolific and frequently-published illustrator Samson Pollen. A classic example of 1960s men’s magazine art, this salacious and provocative illustration was published in a July issue of Men magazine to accompany […]

Germany’s Fräulein Camps

Artist: Samson Pollen