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This touching, personal charcoal portrait by Rolf Armstrong features his long-time housekeeper and personal friend Rebekah Louisa Hooper–Ma Hoops–in a lovingly rendered Hawaiian islands view, with traditional plumeria tucked behind her ear. Hooper worked at Armstrong’s homes in Honolulu Hawaii and Marblehead Massachusetts, becoming a fixture in his tight knit circle.

Ma Hoops

Artist: Rolf Armstrong

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, hawaiiana, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: September 7, 2010

An exquisitely posed, unusually delicate view of Myrna Loy, by Elmer Fryer, the Hollywood glamour photographer who had perhaps the best sense of modernist style and fashion. This unusual view features Loy in blonde wig in her role as Sophie the dancer in “Bride of the Regiment.” An early view of the star, who would come to be known for her sassy wit and hard nosed sexuality in the Nick & Nora Thin Man series.

Myrna Loy in Bride of the Regiment

Artist: Elmer Fryer

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, classical, Elmer Fryer, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, harp, hollywood, Myrna Loy, orientalist, portrait
Added to Gallery: August 8, 2010

A spectacular view of Clara Bow in jazz age headscarf with streamlined modernist style, by George Hommel. Bow’s wizened eyes and cupid feature captured the nihilism and eroticism of the Lost generation, as well as the heart of the American moviegoing public, and vintage original stills of her remain highly collectible.

Clara Bow

Artist: George Hommel

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Clara Bow, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, George Hommel, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 24, 2010

Carole Lombard, one of the finest actresses of the golden era of Hollywood film, is captured in all of her glamour in this promotional portrait for Paramount Pictures. In dramatic sequined gown, the platinum blonde beauty who captured the heart of America in the 1930s, and died tragically promoting the war effort in 1941, still captivates.

Carole Lombard

Artist: Unknown

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Carole Lombard, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, Paramount Films, portrait
Added to Gallery: July 18, 2010

The quintessential jazz baby, Joan Crawford is captured coyly beckoning at the viewer in this large format, double weight gallery photograph by Ruth Harriet Louise. The most important female photographer in Hollywood during the golden age of film, Louise is remembered for her ability to make the spirit of the art deco jazz age come alive.

Joan Crawford as Flapper Jazz Baby

Artist: Ruth Harriet Louise

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, Joan Crawford, MGM, portrait, Ruth Harriet Louise
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2010

This 1920s double weight original large format erotic sepia photograph of Ziegfeld Follies showgirl and flapper Tot Qualters is one of the most well preserved artifacts of the heyday of the jazz age showgirl extravaganza. In its original glassine sleeve, this features Qualters in ornate headdress, captured by Orval Hixon of the Hixon-Newman studios. Photographs from this era of the Ziegfeld Follies are particularly coveted, and views with this exquisite sense of style and costuming are among the most desirable and scarce.

Erotic Ziegfeld Girl Tot Qualters

Artist: Orval Hixon

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Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, flapper, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, jazz age, Orval Hixon, portrait, theater, Tot Qualters, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2010

This art deco stylized hatted view of Judy Garland was kept in the actress’s personal collection until her death. A charming portrait that showcases the joyful innocence which was essential to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s presentation of the icon (but which ran directly counter to her haunted personal life). This double weight, large format gallery portrait is a rarely seen still, and celebrates the style of the late 1930s as well as the unusual beauty of Garland.

Judy Garland Double Image

Artist: Unknown

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, Judy Garland, MGM, portrait
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2010

Paramount pictures glamour photographer Otto Dyar captures pre-code starlet Adrienne Ames at her most glamorous in this large format, art deco gallery portrait. The press snipe on the verso evokes the sophistication with which Ames was identified, and the fashion icon as which she was known. “Brown and tomato red creates the striking color combination of this rough crepe street frock worn by Adrienne Ames in “From Hell to Heaven”, a Paramount pictures.”

Adrienne Ames in From Hell to Heaven

Artist: Otto Dyar

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Tagged With: 1930s, Adrienne Ames, american, art deco, fashion, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, hollywood, Otto Dyar, Paramount Films, portrait, pre-code
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2010

Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood’s icon of glamour and style, is radiant in this large format, rare gallery still created as a promotional portrait for her 1944 starring turn in “The Heavenly Body.” These double weight, oversized stills were never intended for public consumption and are rare and coveted today as the apex of Hollywood fine art glamour photography. Stunning with its deep black and dramatic style, this also features advertising press snipe on verso as seen.

A Dramatic Hedy Lamarr

Artist: Unknown

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, Hedy Lamarr, hollywood, portrait
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2010

Before her tenure as the reigning queen of Hollywood society, and her long-standing position as mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies was among the most beautiful of Florence Ziegfeld’s glorified American girls. Here, she is shown in lavish showgirl costuming, an ethereal beauty in soft focus view by Campbell studio. This double weight gallery portrait is blindstamped by photographer lower right.

Follies Girl Marion Davies

Artist: Campbell Studios

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Tagged With: 1910s, american, Campbell Studios, flapper, follies, gelatin silver photograph, glamour, Marion Davies, portrait, showgirl, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: June 21, 2010

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