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A large, inventive, and whimsical oil painting featuring a nude goddess disguised within a snow covered mountain landscape. Signed by the well-listed artist Sigurd Skou, verso is titled “Hills in Norway.” Skou was born in Norway and studied with Anders Zorn in Stockholm and Paris. Throughout his career he traveled extensively and truly lived the artist’s life staying active in bohemian circles in New York, France and Chicago.

Hills in Norway

Artist: Sigurd Skou
Price:  $4,500.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, american, art deco, fantasy, landscap, norway, nude, Sigurd Skou
Added to Gallery: June 8, 2017

A remarkable, large, signed and dated 1929 oil painting by one of the leading “cabin art” calendar artists Frank Stick. Known best for his genre illustrations for the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company, Stick also worked for many early 20th century magazine titles including Collier’s, Sports Afield and The Saturday Evening Post creating rugged outdoorsman scenes culled from his own experiences. This is a unique offering by the artist, featuring a pretty Pre-Raphaelite Viking mother and her newborn child emerging from a long winter, a cherished example from the Charles Martignette collection.

A Viking Mother

Artist: Frank Stick
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, cabin art, Charles Martignette, child, Frank Stick, hunting, illustration, maiden, norway, original calendar art, Philip Goodwin, pin up, pre-raphaelite, winter
Added to Gallery: April 27, 2017

A large and early bathing beauty themed pin-up illustration in pastel by K.O. Munson, the gifted and prolific illustrator who worked many years for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. This is an early work note the stylized signature and 1940’s glamour girl pose. Work is in fine condition and properly lined behind glass in an attractive period wide profile gold gesso frame.

The Bathing Belle

Artist: K. O. Munson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, glamour, illustration, K. O. Munson, norway, original calendar art, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 9, 2008

An original gouache on board created for the cover of the September 1962 edition of For Men Only, illustrating the story Operation”Never-Talk:” Shocking Revenge of Norway’s Partisan Nymph. (A Smuggled-In Yank And A Wild Anti-Nazi Underground Girl by James S. Wagner. A large finely rendered scene of a bungled SS operation, with a trio of tightly wound American service men, a gathering of inebriated Nazi’s and a pair of scantily clad female secret agents acting as decoys.

Norway’s Partisan Nymph

Artist: Mort Künstler
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, american, cold war, For Men Only, german, magazine cover, Mort Künstler, nazi, norway, original cover art, pin up, pulp, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 20, 2008

A large mid-1950’s calendar girl pin-up pastel that was commissioned by the Shaw-Barton Calendar Company for one of their wildly successful and genre changing “Sketchbook” style 12 page pin-up calendars. Knute “K.O.” Munson executed many pastels for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company during the 1940’s and then Shaw-Barton. He later went on to become a successful cheesecake pin-up photographer during illustration arts lean years of the 1960’s, a charmed life to be sure.

The Model as Artist

Artist: K. O. Munson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, cheesecake, chicago, K. O. Munson, norway, original calendar art, pin up, Shaw-Barton Calendar Company, sketchbook
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2007

A large original commissioned pin-up genre pastel on illustration board by Knute O. Munson for a 1952 Brown & Bigelow Calendar titled Our Knowledge and Experience At Your Command. This was given to a store owner in Tulsa Oklahoma decades earlier by the regional Brown & Biglelow salesman there as a reward for advertising with his company. It is cleverly signed lower left on the spine of one of the books.

Our Knowledge & Experience At Your Command

Artist: K. O. Munson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, advertising, american, Brown & Bigelow, cheesecake, chicago, good girl art, K. O. Munson, norway, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 4, 2006

A large original commissioned pin-up genre pastel on illustration board by Knute O. Munson for a 1949 Brown & Bigelow Calendar titled Top Service Is Delivered. This was given to a store owner in Tulsa Oklahoma decades earlier by the regional Brown & Biglelow salesman there as a reward for advertising with his company. It is cleverly signed on the falling package by the artist.

Top Service is Delivered

Artist: K. O. Munson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, cheesecake, chicago, K. O. Munson, norway, original calendar art, pin up, stockings
Added to Gallery: July 4, 2006

 

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