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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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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 […]

Behind On Her Sleep

Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, blonde, Calendar, Edward D'Ancona, erotic, glamour, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

Newly uncovered original Gil Elvgren painting, overpainted by Vaughan Bass. A 1944 oil on canvas for Louis F. Dow.

What a Break – Overpaint

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

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 […]

In the Spotlight

Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price: $8,000.00 $5,600.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, blonde, Calendar, Edward D'Ancona, glamour, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, USO, Veronica Lake
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

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 […]

A Blue Eyed Lass

Artist: Gene Pressler
Price: $6,500.00 $4,550.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, 1920s, art nouveau, Calendar, Edwardian, Gene Pressler, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, Norman Platnick, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 10, 2020

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 […]

Lady In Blue

Artist: Philip Boileau
Price: $3,500.00  $2,450.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, Calendar, Edwardian, Gargoyle Motor Oil, glamour, Golden Age, Norman Platnick, original calendar art, original illustration art, pastel, Philip Boileau, pin up, postcard
Added to Gallery: July 10, 2020

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 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 […]

The Jade Necklace

Artist: Haskell Coffin
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Calendar, flapper, glamour, Golden Age, Haskell Coffin, magazine cover, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 8, 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

Flapper Girl with Fan by Charles Allan Gilbert On offer is a lovely pastel illustration by C. Allan Gilbert. It depicts a stylish flapper girl in a pretty beaded black dress with a large ostrich plume hand fan. It is our hunch that was created for the calendar market. It is signed in the upper […]

Flapper Girl with Fan

Artist: Charles Allan Gilbert
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Calendar, charles allan gilbert, flapper, glamour, illustration, jazz age, Norman Platnick, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2020

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 […]

Edwardian Calendar Girl – Miss January 1907

Artist: Henry Hutt
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, Calendar, Edwardian, glamour, Golden Age, gouache, Henry Hutt, Norman Platnick, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait, Watercolor
Added to Gallery: July 7, 2020

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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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