Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A spectacular original oil painting on canvas-board of a pretty pin-up girl which was created by the Chicago-based female illustrator Pearl Frush for Grapette Soda, a brand with which the artist was closely associated. The luminous, all-American allure of the model provokes comparison to the Coca-Cola advertising illustrations being created by Haddon Sundblom, a colleague and mentor of the […]
Artist: Pearl Frush
Price: SOLD
A classic situational cheesecake pin up mishap unfolds in this original Louis F. Dow calendar painting by the Chicago area artist Charles Showalter titled “High & Dry.” The lovely nude is caught, high, and perhaps now dry after removing her clothes. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently acquired this and several other Louis F. Dow published calendar […]
Artist: Charles Showalter
Price: S O L D
A large classic Americana c. 1950 oil painting on canvas created for Atlantic Petroleum by Hayden Hayden. This was likely created as a billboard advertising design. In this all-American apple pie depiction, a clean cut high school football star has attracted the interest of a pretty co-ed after being “Fixed Up For The […]
Artist: Hayden Hayden
Price: Sold
A spirited Christmas seasonal advertising painting from the 1940s in the style of Chicago artist Haddon Sundblom. This commercial advertising illustration was created for an as of yet unidentified ad campaign in the Sundblom Shop/Chicago Studios aesthetic. It is our belief that this was painted by Sundblom himself.
Artist: Haddon Sundblom (attributed)
Price: S O L D
