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Jewel Flowers

Rainbow Jewel Flowers This is a fun, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered whimsical sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers in an ethereal gown bursting with a kaleidoscope of rainbow colors. Armstrong created this pastel for Flowers as a gift and it […]

Rolf Armstrong Muse Jewel Flowers

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Tagged With: 1950s, Jewel Flowers, Pastel Illustration, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2021

Adorable Jewel Flowers This is a beautiful, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers wearing a glamorous yellow gown and her mega-watt beaming smile. The pose and layout of this sketch bears a resemblance to Armstrong’s published […]

Adorable Jewel Flowers

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Jewel Flowers, Pastel Illustration, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2021

Rolf Armstrong’s Final Brown & Bigelow Calendar Art This is an absolutely adorable pastel thumbnail sketch by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. Featuring the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers, this pastel preliminary sketch would become the published calendar art titled “All Smiles”, which was Armstrong’s last commissioned work for Brown & […]

All Smiles Thumbnail Sketch

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Jewel Flowers, Pastel Illustration, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2021

  A charming and warmly fraternal charcoal portrait of Jewel Flowers dated 1945, that was inscribed by the American artist Rolf Armstrong and given to the models parents – Mr. & Mrs. Colton Flowers. As a teenager Jewel Flowers was crowned “Miss Lumberton, North Carolina”, she moved to New York City at 17 after graduating […]

Jewel Flowers Inscribed Charcoal Portrait

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Golden Age, Jewel Flowers, original illustration art, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

In part one of our blog series on Jewel Flowers, we explored how the model rose from teenaged North Carolina beauty queen to become muse and adored friend to illustrator and Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong as well as how the pair’s keen eye for fashion translated into the gorgeous costumes seen in Armstrong’s pastels. […]

Jewel Flowers Behind The Scenes; Part 2

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Tagged With: Calendar, illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 18, 2018

Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators inducted American illustrator and pin-up artist Rolf Armstrong into their Illustrator’s Hall of Fame. Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and […]

Rolf Armstrong in the Illustrators Hall of Fame

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Tagged With: illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2016

Jewel Flowers; a diminutive gem of an artist’s model who was muse to Rolf Armstrong for half his career, and whose popularity at times threatened to surpass his. Armstrong began the 1940s known for vampy flappers and radiant pin-ups with art deco sophistication, a style that was waning in popularity at the time. His meeting with Flowers, an unknown […]

Jewel Flowers Behind the Scenes; Part 1

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Tagged With: 1940s, Artist's Model, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Dress, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, Trench Art, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 26, 2016

Rolf Armstrong created this Western-themed pin-up cowgirl pastel for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company in the early 1950s. The adorable Americana image was published as a calendar with the titles Come And Get It!, and Soups On! This original artwork has tremendous electric cobalt blue coloring as the artist captured the last fleeting minutes of light, imagining a dreamy, well-realized, wide […]

Come And Get It!

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, cowgirl, Jewel Flowers, original calendar art, Original pastel, Rolf Armstrong, western americana
Added to Gallery: February 26, 2015

Rolf Armstrong created this pastel titled “Come On In” for the Brown and Bigelow Calendar Company in 1941. The model is Jewel Flowers, Armstrong’s favorite subject and close friend. Originally, this pastel included the full body of the model, sitting in a pool with a Scottish Terrier. At some point, this illustration (like several other examples by Armstrong that have recently surfaced), was cut down to appear as a portrait. This was possibly altered by the artist himself, as Armstrong would rework and alter his pieces in the cases he retained physical possession of the originals, in order to reuse them for a second commission.

Come On In

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, bathing beauty, bikini, Brown & Bigelow, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: April 30, 2013

A unique and inventive, large and luminous original pin-up pastel calendar illustration created for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul Minnesota. This was used as a 1958 calendar titled “Moonglow”. The model is Jewel Flowers and this is rendered in an electric cobalt blue palette with the model catching the golden hues afforded by a moonlit night. The work is pictured in “The Great American Pin-up” on page 98 plate #95.

Moonglow

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
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Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, good girl art, Jewel Flowers, original calendar art, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 15, 2011

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