Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
Featured within The Golden Gallery are works by influential artists such as Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren and Earl Moran. These important paintings represent the pinnacle of illustration art , we trust you will enjoy this curated selection of genre-defining examples and unsurpassed rarities from the Grand Age of American Illustration.
Grapefruit Moon Gallery is honored to be able to offer "Ye Chiseler - Yo Ho Ho And a Bottle of Rum", a large, commanding, seductive and masterful mural created by Henry Clive, to our eyes the finest illustrator working in jazz age Hollywood. Along with its companion work "The Infidel" (also available through Grapefruit Moon Gallery), Clive created this masterwork for the tavern of The Masquers Club, a historic and fascinating Hollywood institution.
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: $35,000.00
A hauntingly beautiful dated 1919 oil on canvas painting by the American artist and illustrator Charles Allan Winter. A nude Art Nouveau maiden with a purple iris posed in front of mosaic work in a style and aesthetic that recalls Alphonse Mucha. Painting is framed in a completely hand crafted gesso batwing frame that was created specifically to house this jewel of a painting.
Artist: Charles Winter
Price: $16,500.00
A rare and never before on the market painting by Gil Elvgren, this exceptional piece is the epitome of pin-up calendar art!
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: $75,000.00 $48,750.00
Fair and Warmer by Arnold Armitage We are ecstatic to offer this never before on the market pin-up painting by artist Arnold Armitage. This piece was published in the late 1940s by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota with the title "Fair and Warmer". The image also appeared on a trade stimulator […]
Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price: Sold
Sleeping Beauty Pin-Up Girl by Edward D'Ancona This is a recently rediscovered, rare, surviving pin-up calendar painting by the prolific illustrator Edward D'Ancona. It was published with the title "Behind in Her Sleep" by The Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of St. Paul, MN. Grapefruit Moon Gallery unearthed a collection of new-to-the-market pin-up paintings that […]
Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price: Sold
Illustrated advertising portrait by Charles Bosseron Chambers This gorgeous oil on canvas painting is by American artist and illustrator Charles Bosseron Chambers. With deep, rich gold colors set against a muted, textured backdrop, this portrait features an elegant flapper girl wearing a gold kimono with a matching gold headband wrapped around her bobbed brunette hair. […]
Artist: Charles Bosseron Chambers
Price: Sold
Original pin up painting by Gil Elvgren for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery. "He was neither a gentleman or a sculler," Oil on canvas, Brown & Bigelow, 1948
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: Sold
An Edward Eggleston original artwork featuring a nude nymph at a lake, with Maxfield Parrish blues. Vintage illustration art for sale, make your best offer!
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: Sold
Evening Star is a 1929 Maxfield Parrish inspired indian maiden painting by Edward Eggleston. Original illustration art for sale, make your best offer.
Artist: Edward Eggleston
Price: $25,000.00 or Best Offer
This rare, original mixed medium painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the February 15, 1942 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Spanish Mission inspired image was from a series entitled "Maid In America." The image on the […]
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: $13,500.00
