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Joan Crawford

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.

A Dashing Joan Crawford

Artist: R. Wilson Hammell
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, gypsy, hollywood, Joan Crawford, magazine cover, original calendar art, R. Wilson Hammell, spanish
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2018

In an unusual blonde hatted view by George Hurrell, Joan Crawford is captured in her most captivating glory by the master of Hollywood photography George Hurrell. In a gentle sepia on a large format double weight semi-gloss paperstock, Hurrell captures the beauty of the young Joan Crawford, with her effortless art deco style, and emboldened flapper sensibility. This is blindstamped by Hurrell lower right, and inkstamped on verso.

Pre-Code Joan Crawford

Artist: George Hurrell
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Joan Crawford, platinum blonde, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: March 19, 2011

In a glamorous wide-brimmed hat, Joan Crawford displays the smoldering intense gaze that was to become her trademark in this image by the incomparable George Hurrell. This double weight gallery still is the personality portrait at its finest, on a high end double weight photostock, and never intended for public distribution. A pre-code form of glamorous sophistication the likes of with Hollywood rarely saw.

A Hatted Joan Crawford

Artist: George Hurrell
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Joan Crawford, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: March 19, 2011

The quintessential jazz baby, Joan Crawford is captured coyly beckoning at the viewer in this large format, double weight gallery photograph by Ruth Harriet Louise. The most important female photographer in Hollywood during the golden age of film, Louise is remembered for her ability to make the spirit of the art deco jazz age come alive.

Joan Crawford as Flapper Jazz Baby

Artist: Ruth Harriet Louise
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, Joan Crawford, MGM, portrait, Ruth Harriet Louise
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2010

From the personal collection of Joan Crawford, this large format double weight still features the timeless beauty and Hollywood legend at the height of her fame, in a dramatic portrait from Grand Hotel. By George Hurrell, who revolutionized glamour photography with his dramatic art deco portraits of film and theater personalities, this 1932 film still was hand printed by Hurrell for Crawford herself. She later presented the photograph as a gift to her chauffeur. A very rare jazz age view with important and historically intriguing provenance.

Joan Crawford in Grand Hotel

Artist: George Hurrell
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, Grand Hotel, hollywood, jazz age, Joan Crawford, MGM, portrait
Added to Gallery: May 4, 2010

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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