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A Metropolitan Beauty by Haskell Coffin On offer is a lovely masterfully rendered pastel by the prolific American artist and illustrator Haskel Coffin. The image shows demure sad eyed flapper girl in a floating head styled popularized by Rolf Armstrong. Pastel was created as the cover for the May, 1920 edition of Metropolitan Magazine. Pastel […]

A Wispy Beauty - Cover For Metroplitan Magazine

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, Haskell Coffin, illustration, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, Original pastel
Added to Gallery: July 9, 2020

A fun whimsical expertly rendered baseball themed illustration oil on canvas painting by E.M. Jackson. In this fresh to the market work, a baseball umpire is pelted with a tomato after making the "You're out..." sign. Our gallery loves this illustrator, this is from the 1920s or early 1930s and was likely a magazine cover […]

You're Out

Artist: E.M. Jackson
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, baseball, E. M. Jackson, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art
Added to Gallery: July 8, 2020

American Magazine cover art by Earl Christy This is a lovely pastel illustration by American artist and illustrator Earl Christy. Showing a delicate flapper beauty holding wispy flowers to her breast in classic romantic fashion, this was used as cover art for The American Magazine, May 1923. A  complete issue of the magazine is included in […]

An American Beauty

Artist: Earl Christy
Price:  $6,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: American Magazine, Calendar, Earl Christy, Golden Age, Norman Platnick, original cover art, Original pastel, pin up
Added to Gallery: July 4, 2020

Redbook Cover by Haskell Coffin This romantic and dreamy pastel by the important pretty girl illustrator Haskell Coffin appeared as the cover of the July 1923 edition of Redbook magazine. In the 1920s, Redbook was one of the premiere fiction magazines in the country, with stories by authors ranging from Jack London to Edith Wharton. […]

A Red Book Cover Girl With Flowers

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Golden Age, Haskell Coffin, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, Original pastel, Red Book Magazine
Added to Gallery: July 1, 2020

Illustrated advertising portrait by Charles Bosseron Chambers This gorgeous oil on canvas painting is by American artist and illustrator Charles Bosseron Chambers. With deep, rich gold colors set against a muted, textured backdrop, this portrait features an elegant flapper girl wearing a gold kimono with a matching gold headband wrapped around her bobbed brunette hair. […]

The Gold Kimono

Artist: Charles Bosseron Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, charles bosseron chambers, flapper, magazine cover, Norman Platnick, oil painting, original cover art, pulp, Red Book Magazine, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2020

This rare, original mixed medium painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the February 15, 1942 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Spanish Mission inspired image was from a series entitled "Maid In America." The image on the […]

California Spanish Girl

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  $13,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Uncategorized
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, glamour, Golden Age, Henry Clive, hollywood, illustration, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, portrait, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 18, 2019

This fabulous original Film Fun cover painting by Enoch Bolles appeared on their September 1933 edition with the title Worth Wading For.

Worth Wading For

Artist: Enoch Bolles
Price:  $45,000.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, bathing beauty, Calendar, Enoch Bolles, Film Fun, flapper, Golden Age, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 23, 2019

This rare original painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the October 13, 1946 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Egyptian inspired image was from a series entitled "Pin-up Girls of History." Pictured as Cleopatra is the lovely Hollywood film star Dorothy Lamour, whose impossibly good looks and exotic features draw comparison to the legendary queen of the Nile, though the actress never portrayed her in film.

Pin-Up Girls of History - Cleopatra

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, art deco, Cleopatra, Dorothy Lamour, egyptian, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 23, 2019

    This is an exciting, fresh-to-the-market paperback book cover illustration by Al Schmidt for the 1952 Cardinal Complete Book Edition of The White Tower by James Ramsey Ullman. The text slug on the paperback reads, "Five men and one woman gazed upward at Weissturm - The White Tower - hypnotized by the beckoning shadows […]

The White Tower

Artist: Al Schmidt
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Golden Age, illustration, lurid, original cover art, original illustration art, paperback, pulp
Added to Gallery: June 3, 2019

This oil on canvas painting by Reginald Bolles is a classic example of Golden Age illustration and was likely created as cover art for an American glossy magazine in the 1920s. Showcasing a smartly attired flapper girl in a cloche hat closely admiring a cherry tree branch with a birds nest attached that is filled […]

The Robins Nest

Artist: Reginald Bolles
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, 1930s, american, art deco, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2019

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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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