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Rolf Armstrong

Albert Neville's Flapper Girls This opulent and provocative pastel on board is one of the many art deco glamour girl illustrations Albert Neville created during his career as a movie magazine cover artist, and freelance calendar illustrator. Heavily inspired by the floating head flapper girls Rolf Armstrong specialized in during the 1920s, this shows a […]

Red Headed Flapper In Gold Scarf

Artist: Albert Neville
Price:  $3,850.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: A.D. Neville, art deco, Calendar, flapper, Norman Platnick, Original pastel, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: July 1, 2020

For Sale: signed and inscribed pastel by Rolf Armstrong showcasing Jewel Flowers, his most iconic model, muse, closest friend and confidant.

Jewel Flowers In Hawaiian Lei

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, glamour, Golden Age, hawaiiana, Lei, new york city, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

On offer is the final original preliminary pastel by Rolf Armstrong for his late 1950s Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company calendar "Delightful".

Final Preliminary Study for Delightful

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  $5,500.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, glamour, Golden Age, illustration, original calendar art, original illustration art, Original pastel, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

  A charming and warmly fraternal charcoal portrait of Jewel Flowers dated 1945, that was inscribed by the American artist Rolf Armstrong and given to the models parents - Mr. & Mrs. Colton Flowers. As a teenager Jewel Flowers was crowned "Miss Lumberton, North Carolina", she moved to New York City at 17 after graduating […]

Jewel Flowers Inscribed Charcoal Portrait

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Golden Age, Jewel Flowers, original illustration art, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: March 26, 2019

Early Rolf Armstrong artwork, created as 1919 sheet music cover. Provenance includes the collection of Kenneth Anger, author of Hollywood Babylon.

Tell Me Why

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  $11,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art deco, flapper, illustration, jazz age, Joan Reader, pin up, portrait, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: October 24, 2018

In part one of our blog series on Jewel Flowers, we explored how the model rose from teenaged North Carolina beauty queen to become muse and adored friend to illustrator and Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong as well as how the pair's keen eye for fashion translated into the gorgeous costumes seen in Armstrong's pastels. […]

Jewel Flowers Behind The Scenes; Part 2

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Calendar, illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 18, 2018

This alluring jazz age portrait of Evelyn Brent by Rolf Armstrong of silent film star Evelyn Brent was commissioned as original artwork for the cover of the March 1930 issue of Screenland Magazine. Armstrong executed a series of covers for this title between 1929 - 1930; he once remarked that Brent had the most perfect face he had ever portrayed. Pastel is matted and framed behind glass and in a fine state of original conservation.

Portrait of Evelyn Brent

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  $8,500.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1930s, american, Evelyn Brent, flapper, glamour, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, portrait, Rolf Armstrong, Screenland, silent movie
Added to Gallery: March 16, 2017

Carmen, painted in 1929, is one of four monumental and epic, larger than life oil paintings created by Rolf Armstrong after his return from a yearlong excursion to Paris, where the artist was inspired by the fine art salon movement nudes which were on display in museums, galleries, and private homes throughout France. Known as the Paris […]

Carmen

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, art deco, Brown & Bigelow, Carmen, erotic, fine art, glamour, Golden Age, hollywood, illustration, jazz age, Monumental, nude, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, portrait, risque, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 23, 2016

Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators inducted American illustrator and pin-up artist Rolf Armstrong into their Illustrator's Hall of Fame. Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and […]

Rolf Armstrong in the Illustrators Hall of Fame

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2016

Jewel Flowers; a diminutive gem of an artist's model who was muse to Rolf Armstrong for half his career, and whose popularity at times threatened to surpass his. Armstrong began the 1940s known for vampy flappers and radiant pin-ups with art deco sophistication, a style that was waning in popularity at the time. His meeting with Flowers, an unknown […]

Jewel Flowers Behind the Scenes; Part 1

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1940s, Artist's Model, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Dress, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, Trench Art, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 26, 2016

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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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