Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This is a classic example of vintage American pin up art, featuring a brunette in fashionable red ensemble with heart shaped hat. The model wears a classic cheesecake “ooh” face. Signed lower right by the artist Hagan. This is just darling, housed in the simple original wood frame.
Artist: Hagan
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.
Artist: Henry Clive
Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow’s 1941 calendar line. It was published with the title Fishermans’s Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]
Artist: Earl Moran
A feisty redhead is caught in a private moment in this voyeuristic and menacing published pulp painting that was used as the cover of Ecstasy Books #15 “Wanton By Night.” The image is filled with classic pulp iconography, from the scantily-clad femme fatale hurryingly drawing down her shade in the close confines of urban apartment […]
Artist: George Gross
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 […]
Artist: Reginald Bolles
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Artist: Fitz Boynton
This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist’s “Embarrassment Series” images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to […]
Artist: Art Frahm
This is a fun, well-conceived, and luminous original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm that appeared in the 1947 Louis F. Dow Calendar Company line under the title Cute Trick. In this oil on canvas painting, a startled, pretty young blonde is catching up on some late night reading when she is […]
Artist: Art Frahm
Our Gallery previously sold this pastel in April of 2015; we are very pleased to offer it again for sale! Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer one of the finest Earl Moran pastels ever available for sale. Titled Now, This Is Just Between You And Me, this showcases the young Blue […]
Artist: Earl Moran
Peter Driben vintage and original pin up painting created as cover for Wink Magazine. For sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Peter Driben
