Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This is a fabulous example of Gil Elvgren’s pin-up work for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN. This was created and published in 1955 with the title of Welcome Traveler and is one of the finest Elvgren paintings this gallery has offered. A pretty redhead perched on a tweed […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
Sleeping Beauty Pin-Up Girl by Edward D’Ancona This is a recently rediscovered, rare, surviving pin-up calendar painting by the prolific illustrator Edward D’Ancona. It was published with the title “Behind in Her Sleep” by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of St. Paul, MN. Grapefruit Moon Gallery unearthed a collection of new-to-the-market pin-up paintings that […]
Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price: Sold
Newly uncovered original Gil Elvgren painting, overpainted by Vaughan Bass. A 1944 oil on canvas for Louis F. Dow.
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
In the Spotlight by Edward D’Ancona This is a recently discovered and rare surviving published pin-up calendar painting by the prolific illustrator Edward D’Ancona. This was originally published with the title “In the Spotlight” by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. Grapefruit Moon Gallery just unearthed a collection of new-to-the-market pin-up […]
Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price: $8,000.00 $5,600.00
Goodnight Sweetheart by Edward D’Ancona This is a recently discovered and rare surviving published pin-up calendar painting by the prolific illustrator Edward D’Ancona. This was originally published with the title “Goodnight Sweetheart” by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of St. Paul, Minnesota. Grapefruit Moon Gallery just unearthed a collection of new-to-the-market pin-up paintings that […]
Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price: $8,500.00 $5,950.00
Original Art by Gene Pressler This beautifully well-preserved pastel painting is by American artist and illustrator Gene Pressler. With a rich color palette and Pressler’s signature glow, this pastel features a rosy-cheeked blue eyed stylish Edwardian in attire lass. We assume this was created sometime in the 1910s as magazine cover art but thus far […]
Artist: Gene Pressler
Price: $6,500.00 $4,550.00
Calendar art by Philip Boileau By the time Philip Boileau created this pastel on board calendar illustration, he was already one of the most popular “pretty girl” postcard artists working. This example, which was copyrighted under the title Lady In Blue features a blue-eyed Edwardian maiden looking over her shoulder daringly at the viewer, and is […]
Artist: Philip Boileau
Price: $3,500.00 $2,450.00
A Flapper Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely, masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows a stylized blue eyed flapper girl dressed for an evening on the town with a beaded roaring twenties dress and a jade green wrap and necklace. This pastel was […]
Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price: Sold
An Edwardian Calendar Girl This is a large format, published watercolor and gouache painting on illustration board by the prolific American illustrator Henry Hutt. This painting appeared as the January 1907 page of “The Henry Hutt Calendar”. In this portrait a cinched waist Edwardian beauty delights the eye with a cane and masquerade mask held […]
Artist: Henry Hutt
Price: SOLD
Frederick Duncan original pastel Frederick Duncan was a prolific and popular illustrator whose depictions of the independent New Woman, glamour girl, and flapper were widely popular during the 1910s and 1920s. Duncan’s work graced covers of a wide variety of periodicals including The Saturday Evening Post as well on calendars, postcards, and advertising campaigns too […]
Artist: Frederick Duncan
Price: $3,500.00 $2,450.00
