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Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration

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Pearl Frush

A spectacular original oil painting on canvas-board of a pretty pin-up girl which was created by the Chicago-based female illustrator Pearl Frush for Grapette Soda,  a brand with which the artist was closely associated. The luminous, all-American allure of the model provokes comparison to the Coca-Cola advertising illustrations being created by Haddon Sundblom, a colleague and mentor of the […]

The Grapette Girl

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Grapette Soda, Pearl Frush, pin up, soda fountain, sundblom shop
Added to Gallery: February 25, 2018

“Eyes That Invite” is a colorful and classic 1950 original glamour girl pin-up pastel by Pearl Frush and published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet Illinois. This was gifted by a salesman at Gerlach-Barklow to the Robberson Steel Company of Oklahoma City in appreciation for their lucrative advertising account.

Eyes That Invite

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: 1950s, american, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, glamour, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: January 15, 2018

This voluptuous dreamy risqué redhead was created as calendar pin up art for the Goes Litho Company by the prolific and talented female Chicago area illustrator Pearl Frush. A red headed femme-fatale, loosely styled after Jean Harlow from her starring turn in the 1932 film Red Headed Woman, appears in a floppy wide brimmed straw hat with […]

Red Headed Woman

Artist: Pearl Frush
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Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, flapper, glamour, Goes Litho Co., Golden Age, hollywood, Jean Harlow, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up, portrait
Added to Gallery: October 31, 2016

This delicately rendered, original, signed Pearl Frush pin-up illustration was published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company under the title “Miss Bermuda.” The nearly photo-realist watercolor appeared as part of a 1947 “Aqua Tour” series of bathing beauty images. Pearl Frush was a prolific and talented female artist who was active during the 1940s and 50s and worked […]

Miss Bermuda

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, bathing beauty, Charles Martignette, Gerlach-Barklow, glamour, Golden Age, Miss Bermuda, original calendar art, original illustration art, Pearl Frush, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 2, 2016

This delicately rendered original signed Pearl Frush watercolor pin-up illustration titled “Miss Gulf Coast”, was created for the 1947 Aqua Tour Series of bathing beauty images for the Shaw-Barton Calendar Company of Coshocton, Ohio. Pearl Frush was a prolific and talented female artist that was active during the 1940s and 50s and worked primarily out of Chicago. Painting is silk-matted and framed behind glass in a gorgeous wide profile museum quality gallery frame, signed lower right and verso is notated with usage publication text.

Miss Gulf Coast

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, bathing beauty, beach, bikini, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up, Shaw-Barton Calendar Company
Added to Gallery: February 9, 2013

This good girl art original pastel exemplifies the beauty and personality which kept pin up and glamour a mainstay of calendar imagery even after illustration began giving way to technicolor photography in popularity. This features a fresh faced auburn haired modernist beauty queen from 1975 envisioned by the leading female pin-up illustrator Pearl Frush and published by Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois.

A Modern Miss 1975

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1970s, american, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, good girl art, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: October 12, 2011

A radiant and pristine original pastel glamour pin-up illustration by Pearl Frush, created in 1944 and used in the 1945 Gerlach-Barklow calendar line under the title “Lovely as the Dawn”. This really shows to great affect what Frush was able to create with her almost photo-realist in technique pastel mastery. Housed in its handsome original presentation frame properly lined behind glass with a verso tag from Robberson Steel Co. of Oklahoma who was gifted this pastel in exchange for their advertising.

Lovely As The Dawn

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, good girl art, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 27, 2011

“Angel Face” is a dazzling, nearly photo-realist 1959 original glamour girl pin-up pastel by Pearl Frush which was published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet Illinois. This was gifted by a salesman at Gerlach-Barklow to the Robberson Steel Company of Oklahoma City in appreciation for their lucrative advertising account. Pastel is in a pristine state of conservation in the original gold wide profile frame lined behind glass with plate on front with title and year of print publication.

Angel Face

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, good girl art, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2011

This good girl art original pastel exemplifies the beauty and personality which kept pin up and glamour a mainstay of calendar imagery even after illustration began giving way to photography in popularity. This features a fresh faced brunette envisioned by the leading female pin-up illustrator Pearl Frush and published by Gerlach-Barklow of Joliet Illinois. It was customary for calendar salesmen to reward premiere advertising accounts with original illustrations as incentive to keep advertising with the firm.

Miss 1964

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1960s, american, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, good girl art, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: September 20, 2011

A dazzling and scarce surviving commercial pin-up illustration by Pearl Frush Brudon, a successful female illustrator who worked in gouache and watercolors with a unique and spectacular photo realism to her works. A lovely red headed seductress of the 1940s appears in soft focus in this luminous work, signed lower right with the artist’s married name.

Glamorous Beauty in Soft Focus

Artist: Pearl Frush
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, chicago, Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company, glamour, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up
Added to Gallery: November 18, 2008

 

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