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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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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
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, glamour, illustration, magazine cover, mid-century, noir, original cover art, original interior illustration, pin up, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2023

A large, luminous, and otherworldly gouache illustration most likely created for Redbook Magazine, verso is dated January 1958. A most awkward wedding day depiction where seemingly the groom new the bride and the bride’s maid of honor when they used to rock and roll. A dazzling work by one of our favorite artists in a rainbow inspired color palette that only Georgi could have conceived. Beautifully matted and framed in a period gold gesso frame.

Wedding For Three

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  $7,000.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, mid-century, original interior illustration, Redbook Magazine, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: March 2, 2023

For sale is an original 1977 advertising painting by G. R. Cheesbrough created as an advertisement for Venture Travel agency in Minneapolis MN.

The Tourists

Artist: G.R. Cheesebrough
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: advertising, G.R. Cheesebrough, mid-century, Minnesota Artist, Satire
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2019

Original Mid-Century Modern original artwork for a travel poster for the Pennsylvania Railroad showing the Le Corbusier designed United Nations Building in midtown Manhattan.

New York By Railroad

Artist: American Artist
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: architecture, Le Corbusier, mid-century, new york city, railroadiana, United Nations
Added to Gallery: November 1, 2018

This 1949 Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company commissioned pin-up pastel is one of the finest examples by Earl Moran we have encountered. A redheaded heart-breaker on a then state of the art mid-century modern phone asks the viewer and the caller to “Remember Me?” in a classic pin-up entanglement loaded with double entendre. Earl Moran was a master of light and shadow and this large and commanding artwork is a monument to his talent.

Remember Me?

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Great American Pin-up, mid-century, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This 1948 Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company commissioned pastel by Earl Moran is a large and defining example of American pin up. A pretty blonde pin-up girl is posed on a mid-century modern Heywood Wakefield office desk with a phone in one hand. The title “Call Again” is a witty take on an office secretary and her private hours. Condition is pristine in a custom made lined gallery frame with fitted corners behind ultraviolet glass. A 1948 Brown & Bigelow advertising calendar of the image is included with sale.

Call Again

Artist: Earl Moran
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, mid-century, original calendar art, pin up, secretary
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

A delicately rendered mixed media work by Edwin Georgi which illustrated an interior story in The Saturday Evening Post. A tense dramatic courtroom portrayal from 1959 which captures the Perry Mason/Earle Stanley Gardner American Pop Culture sensation which was resonating at the time this commissioned work appeared in the Post. The lovely Georgi girl is “Policewoman O’Keefe,” and this work confirms our suspicion that illustrators frequently created their finest works for this highly circulated and revered Curtis Publications slick mainstream magazine institution.

The Girl from the Mimosa Club

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, Edwin Georgi, glamour, mid-century, original interior illustration, police, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2016

    A cheerful and romantic seasonal Holiday themed gouache illustration by the prolific and well regarded Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee artist Joe Bowler for an interior story titled “The Christmas House.”  This appeared in the December, 1958 edition of The Ladies Home Journal. A fabulous time capsule with a colorful mid-century modern […]

The Christmas House

Artist: Joe Bowler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: christmas, holiday, Ladies Home Journal, mid-century, original interior illustration, slick magazine
Added to Gallery: September 24, 2014

This collection of three published Brown & Bigelow calendar girl paintings from 1950 offers a mid-century modernist Parisian take on classic pin up art. We believe the artist to be Jean-Gabriel Domergue who was active at the time in France, creating breezy coquettish often times topless hatted sophisticates. These are signed “Ioxia of Paris” we […]

3 French Pin Up Paintings

Artist: Attributed to Domergue
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Domergue, french, mid-century, nude, original calendar art, paris
Added to Gallery: August 10, 2013

An unusual and impacting Edwin Georgi interior illustration that appeared in The March 1952 Edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine in a story titled “The Coward”. A luminous and other wordly Georgi-girl seemingly kissing an enlisted soldier engaged in fierce combat goodbye.

The Coward

Artist: Edwin Georgi
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, mid-century, original interior illustration, pin up, WWII
Added to Gallery: January 16, 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.

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