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Myrna Loy

A spectacularly alluring, inquisitive and beautiful view of Myrna Loy, captured in her pre-code early career 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 Myrna Loy, with her effortless art deco style, and emboldened flapper sensibility. This is blindstamped by Hurrell lower right, and inkstamped on verso. This is a hand printed gallery portrait never intended for distribution, and is a moving rare portrait.

Myrna Loy

Artist: George Hurrell
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, George Hurrell, glamour, hollywood, Myrna Loy, portrait
Added to Gallery: September 12, 2010

An exquisitely posed, unusually delicate view of Myrna Loy, by Elmer Fryer, the Hollywood glamour photographer who had perhaps the best sense of modernist style and fashion. This unusual view features Loy in blonde wig in her role as Sophie the dancer in “Bride of the Regiment.” An early view of the star, who would come to be known for her sassy wit and hard nosed sexuality in the Nick & Nora Thin Man series.

Myrna Loy in Bride of the Regiment

Artist: Elmer Fryer
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, classical, Elmer Fryer, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, harp, hollywood, Myrna Loy, orientalist, portrait
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2010

In 1929 Myrna Loy was an unknown actress and dancer in Hollywood, attracting attention for her darkly exotic beauty and sophisticated hard edged acting. This photograph, from the lavish Vitaphone early talkie “Show of Shows” features Loy in an orientalist jazz age view by Fred R Archer that predicts her iconic turn in The Mask of Fu Manchu. This is an exceedingly rare and beautiful view of the Hollywood icon.

Myrna Loy in Show of Shows

Artist: Fred Archer
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Tagged With: 1920s, american, Fred Archer, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, Myrna Loy, orientalist
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2010

A rare and exceedingly beautiful gelatin silver, double weight gallery photograph of film star Myrna Loy by Laszlo Willinger. This image utilizes a mirrored table to capture the beautiful Loy in a double image. The mirror image was one of the most innovative trends in art deco photography, as it relied on the precision lighting and bold crisp costuming that typified the period. Large double-weight photographs such as this were never intended for widespread distributions, and were hand printed by the photographers themselves.

Myrna Loy in Reflection

Artist: Laszlo Willinger
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Tagged With: 1930s, American Magazine, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, Laszlo Willinger, Myrna Loy, pre-code
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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