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A rare and never before on the market painting by Gil Elvgren, this exceptional piece is the epitome of pin-up calendar art!

Gone With the Wind

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  $52,000.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, bathing beauty, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, Louis F. Dow, nude, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2022

This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.

The Flame Girl

Artist: Billy Devorss
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, blonde, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

Rainbow Jewel Flowers This is a fun, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered whimsical sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers in an ethereal gown bursting with a kaleidoscope of rainbow colors. Armstrong created this pastel for Flowers as a gift and it […]

Rolf Armstrong Muse Jewel Flowers

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Jewel Flowers, Pastel Illustration, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2021

Adorable Jewel Flowers This is a beautiful, c. 1950, unpublished pastel illustration by the Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong. This well-rendered sketch features the artist’s muse and lifelong friend Jewel Flowers wearing a glamorous yellow gown and her mega-watt beaming smile. The pose and layout of this sketch bears a resemblance to Armstrong’s published […]

Adorable Jewel Flowers

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sale Pending

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Jewel Flowers, Pastel Illustration, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2021

      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 […]

Welcome Traveler

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, original calendar art, pin up, redhead, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 23, 2021

Bettie Page in cheetah print costume photographed by Bunny Yeager

Bunny Yeager and Bettie Page: A Pin-Up Match Made in Miami Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of pin-up queen Bettie Page in her iconic “Jungle Bettie” animal print costume and posed with driftwood on a beach while shooting at Africa U.S.A., in Boca Raton, Florida. This […]

Jungle Bettie with Beach Driftwood

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Africa USA, Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, gelatin silver print, Jungle Bettie, pin up
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

An Intimate Portrait of Marci Lane by Bunny Yeager Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this sensual portrait of model Marci Lane. Completely nude and casually curled up on a midcentury modern couch, this portrait is an easy and beautiful example of Yeager’s ability to put her models at […]

Marci Lane in Nude Repose

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  $2,250.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1960s, Bunny Yeager, gelatin silver print, Marci Lane, nude, pin up
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

Pin-up model Dondi Penn photographed topless and posed on a bed

Boudoir Portraiture with Bunny Yeager & Dondi Penn Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this sultry boudoir portrait of model Dondi Penn. Topless and wearing only a pair of high-waisted panties, Penn stares down Yeager’s camera with a fiery come-hither gaze as she stretches out and poses on a […]

Dondi Penn Boudoir Portrait

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  $2,250.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1960s, Bunny Yeager, Dondi Penn, gelatin silver print, nude, pin up
Added to Gallery: February 8, 2021

Bettie Page in a white bikini. Photograph by Bunny Yeager, 1954.

White Hot Bettie Page Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of pin-up queen Bettie Page on a beach in Florida. Bettie shows why she was dubbed the “pin-up queen” as she strikes a pose in a little white bikini designed and created by Bunny. This was taken […]

Bettie Page in White Bikini

Artist: Bunny Yeager
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Bettie Page, Bunny Yeager, florida, gelatin silver print, pin up
Added to Gallery: February 6, 2021

An original painting by Fred Rodewald which appeared as the cover of the December, 1949 edition of the digest pulp fiction title Exotic Novel Magazine.

Buy My Love

Artist: Fred Rodewald
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, erotic, Fred Rodewald, glamour, Golden Age, lurid, original cover art, Peggy Gaddis, pin up, pulp, risque, sleaze
Added to Gallery: October 31, 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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