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  For nearly three decades the inimitable Enoch Bolles was the sole cover artist for Film Fun magazine, creating larger than life and uniquely erotic pin up creations that bridged the gap between the traditional calendar girl and pulp magazine femme-fatales. In this example, which graced the cover of the June 1940 issue, a streamlined […]

Peek of the Season

Artist: Enoch Bolles
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Enoch Bolles, Film Fun, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: September 19, 2016

      A glamorous, art deco Petty Girl mixed media illustration from 1938 that appeared in the pages of Esquire Magazine with the quip “Thanks for the hospitality, Mr. Grover, but I don’t mind going home in the rain.“ In this sophisticated rendering, we see a sexy svelte blonde in a form fitting satin gown […]

Thanks for the Hospitality, Mr. Grover

Artist: George Petty
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Esquire, George Petty, jazz age, original interior illustration, pin up, risque, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

An inventive and unique hand crafted Holiday Seasons Greeting Card from the F. Burtis Clayton Company who we believe were a commercial airbrush art studio. The cover features a streamlined airbrushed painting of a modernist silhouetted cityscape with planes, trains and automobiles ushering in the machine age. Nicely framed, this opens to reveal text and New Year’s wishes as would a more typical holiday card.

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Artist: Unknown
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, automobilia, aviation, F. Burtis Clayton Company, holiday, machine age, modernist, new years eve, progress, railroadiana, skyline, streamline
Added to Gallery: June 7, 2011

A large and radiant calendar girl pin-up pastel by Billy Devorss created for The Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company of Red Oak Iowa. Devorss had a studio in New York City in the Beaux Arts Building and worked for many Calendar Companies of the day creating large format pastel illustrations of modernist fashionable attired heart-breakers in an inventive art deco manner.

A Bathing Beauty in Yellow

Artist: Billy DeVorss
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Billy DeVorss, Great American Pin-up, original calendar art, pin up, streamline, Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2010

A rare surviving early signed cover painting by Enoch Bolles for the October 1925 issue of Film Fun Magazine. A delightful modernist flapper girl envisioned as only Bolles could see, titled “Port ‘O Dreams”. Painting is initialed lower middle and in a fine state of preservation. Recent auction records for this artist have topped $30,000.00 and as collectors know his original cover works are very scarce.

Port ‘O Dreams

Artist: Enoch Bolles
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Tagged With: 1920s, art deco, bathing beauty, Enoch Bolles, Film Fun, flapper, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 13, 2010

A 1940s gouache painting on illustration board showing a silk stockings wearing heartbreaker exposing her garter and getting the worst of a little winter fun. This is by the pin-up artist Winer who created numerous covers for the pin-up magazine titles of the day such as Beauty Parade, Titter, and Wink. Work is unsigned but comes from a Los Angeles estate which featured several signed examples by the artist similar in all regards and artistic aspects.

Bullseye

Artist: Winer
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Tagged With: 1940s, american, original cover art, pin up, stockings, streamline, Winer
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2009

An alarmingly beautiful art deco era original pastel pin-up illustration by Billy Devorss titled “Prize Winner”. A ravishing and radiant blond bathing beauty contestant winner in her slinky and current one piece suit and beach cape. One of the artist’s most successful and enduring creations. In original limed wood frame behind glass with a framing label from “M.Goldberg picture frames, 323 W. 45th St. N.Y. A rare surviving radiant work from Devorss’ most productive period, when his penthouse studio was in New York City’s prestigious Beaux Arts Building.

Prize Winner

Artist: Billy DeVorss
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Billy DeVorss, original calendar art, pin up, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: December 21, 2008

A rare surviving original cover painting by Enoch Bolles which appeared as the cover for the June 1945 Issue of Breezy Stories an envelope pushing, spicy pulp publication of much notoriety. This was most likely painted earlier than the published date noted here, as the magazine was in the practice of re-using existing artwork for its covers and the style and imagery mark this as coming from the 1930s, when Bolles produced his most inventive and important work.

Pin Up Girl With Garlands

Artist: Enoch Bolles
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Tagged With: 1940s, bathing beauty, Breezy Stories, Enoch Bolles, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 13, 2008

A strongly rendered, machine age/industrial revolution inspired modernist 1935 oil painting by Thomas Tyrone Comfort, used as the cover for The Los Angeles Herald & Express; Oct.19, 1936. Comfort worked as an art deco-era muralist and illustrator. His work evokes the spirit of the WPA movement, his brilliant career was cut short in 1939 when the artist passed away at the young age of 30.

Controlled Power

Artist: Tyrone Comfort
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Los Angeles Herald-Express, machine age, modernist, pulp, science fiction, streamline, The Golden Gallery, Tyrone Comfort, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 10, 2008

A flirty, scandalous and new to the market cover illustration by Enoch Bolles, which appeared first as a cover for a 1930’s Young’s Magazine, and again made an appearance on a 1938 cover of Breezy Stories. Enoch Bolles excelled in these curiously proportioned Spicy Pulp, envelope pushing, angular modernist heartbreakers. This is a spectacular work which, like most Bolles’ offerings, is unsigned and is nicely framed and ready to hang.

Bathing Beauty in Sun Hat

Artist: Enoch Bolles
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, art deco, bathing beauty, Breezy Stories, Enoch Bolles, erotic, flapper, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, pulp, risque, streamline, The Golden Gallery, Young's Magazine
Added to Gallery: April 22, 2008

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