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A large and important exhibited American impressionist oil painting by the Boston artist Arthur Prince Spear, 1879-1959. The painting features an outstanding large ethereal and luminous trio of sea nymphs in silhouette – ablaze at sea under a full moon. This is painted in an impressionist style with a textured heavy impasto technique. Housed in its original carved gold leaf wood frame.

Nets of Silver and Gold

Artist: Arthur Prince Spear
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, aquatic, Arthur Prince Spear, impressionist, moon, nymph, Vose Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 9, 2011

The Light of New York by Walter Dean Goldbeck was created as a full page color advertisement that ran in The Saturday Evening Post for General Electric. The inspired and almost transcendentally captivating image would later become a Judge Magazine cover (August 1, 1914) under the title “The Spirit of New York”. The image, which features a mischievous goddess sprinkling moonlight down onto the city below also captured the imagination of music publishers Fred Fischer, who used it as a sheet music cover for his composition “I Found a Rose in the Devil’s Garden.”

The Light of New York

Artist: Walter Dean Goldbeck
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Tagged With: 1910s, advertising, american, art nouveau, Charles Martignette, General Electric, Golden Age, Judge, maiden, moon, new york city, The Golden Gallery, Walter Dean Goldbeck
Added to Gallery: May 25, 2011

A large, Victorian era, original watercolor on illustration board by frequent LIFE Magazine illustrator, Charles Howard Johnson. This was most likely an interior, 2-page, color plate illustration for Truth Magazine. A stylized Belle Epoque, old world gondola scene. Nicely framed in a large, period, gesso wood frame.

Victorian Moon

Artist: Charles Howard Johnson
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Tagged With: 1890s, american, belle epoque, Charles Howard Johnson, fantasy, gondola, moon, seduction, Truth Magazine, victorian
Added to Gallery: May 4, 2009

A recently unearthed original pastel on illustration board, this never before seen artwork by Earl Moran was created for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. The model is of course the young Blue Book agency pin-up model Norma Jeane Baker, who later transformed herself into Marilyn Monroe. Monroe posed for Moran during the late 1940’s and a pictorial of this collaboration appears in the July 2008 issue of Playboy Magazine. This pastel is a warm and radiant portrait of Monroe gazing seductively from a lush tropical moonlit setting. We are thrilled to be offering this monumental work.

Marilyn Monroe In Paradise

Artist: Earl Moran
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, moon, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 11, 2008

An other-worldly science fiction themed cover painting for the 1977 Ace Paperback edition of “The Silent Invaders” by Robert Silverberg. A well realized fantasy minded surrealist excursion into another dimension by the prolific and vanguard sci-fi artist Dan Ivan Punchatz. Work is nicely framed and comes with the published Ace paperback edition shown.

The Silent Invaders

Artist: Don Ivan Punchatz
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Tagged With: 1970s, alien, american, Don Ivan Punchatz, fantasy, masquarade, moon, original cover art, science fiction
Added to Gallery: August 7, 2008

A fabulous large and radiant original oil on canvas by the acclaimed American illustrator Edward Eggleston. This alluring, Edwardian attired glamour girl in luminous moonlight surround was a commissioned calendar artwork under the title The Sweetheart of Sigmi-Chi. Produced in 1919 this same image also appeared (with a riverboat superimposed above the subject’s right shoulder) under the title Dixie. This is one of many instances where an illustrator would reuse a central image to save time while working up a new piece for a competing calendar company. In this instance, Eggleston so seamlessly removed the paddle boat from the original artwork I wouldn’t have known it existed in that form if not for the image shown in Norm Platnick’s A Lady of Mystery: A Collector’s guide to Edward Eggleston.

Sweetheart of Sigma-Chi

Artist: Edward Eggleston
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Tagged With: 1910s, american, Edward Eggleston, Edwardian, moon, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 10, 2008

A breathtaking and evocative sensual moonlit nude by Vaughan Alden Bass. The Veronica Lake look-alike is drenched in streaming moonglow rays in her dark colored boudoir. The unusual color palette employed by Bass gives the work a surreal glow. A stirring masterful work by this under valued and gifted pin-up artist and illustrator. This was gathered from the Saint Paul Estate of a 92 year old woman whose husband worked for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company.

Moonlit Nude

Artist: Vaughan Bass
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Tagged With: 1940s, erotic, Louis F. Dow, Minnesota Artist, moon, nude, original calendar art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery, Vaughan Bass
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2007

The finest surviving Henry Clive cover illustration from his 20+ years creating for The American Weekly. This painting was from a series done in 1934 titled, Darlings of the Poets. In this series, Clive illustrated the inspirations for leading poets and writers. This particular oil on canvas was the inspiration behind The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. It is matted to museum quality and framed in an amazing ornate art deco silver gesso frame. Seven American Weekly issues with the complete run of the Darlings of the Poets series are included.

Moon of My Delight

Artist: Henry Clive
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, American Weekly, art deco, Darlings of the Poets, glamour, Henry Clive, moon, Omar Khayyam, Randolph Hearst, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 6, 2003

 

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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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