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The Golden Gallery

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.

A rare and never before on the market painting by Gil Elvgren, this exceptional piece is the epitome of pin-up calendar art!

Gone With the Wind

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price: $52,000.00 $36,400.00

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1930s, bathing beauty, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, Louis F. Dow, nude, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2022

This remarkable, large, and colorful pastel by Billy Devorss was created for pin up calendar use and published under the title The Flame Girl.

The Flame Girl

Artist: Billy Devorss
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Billy DeVorss, blonde, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2022

World War II Home Front Honey by Rolf Armstrong Widely considered  “The Father of American Pin-Up”, Rolf Armstrong‘s luminous portraits of famous actresses and idealized girls-next-door made him one of the highest paid commercial artists in America; his pictures are noted for their grace, vibrancy, and indescribable lifelike quality. During the 1940s, Armstrong created a […]

I’ll Be Waiting

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar Art, Pastel Illustration, Rolf Armstrong, The Golden Gallery, World War II Pin-Up
Added to Gallery: September 1, 2021

Art Nouveau Moon Goddess by James Ross Bryson This is a rare surviving pastel by the prolific and inventive early pin-up artist James Ross Bryson. Bryson defined Art Nouveau feminine beauty with his Edwardian views of corseted and lavishly attired, erotic, and bold anti-Victorian maidens. An early star staff artist for the Thomas D. Murphy […]

Luna – Goddess of the Moon

Artist: J. Ross Bryson
Price:  Sale Pending

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, art nouveau, Calendar Art, Edwardian, J. Ross Bryson, Pastel Illustration, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 23, 2021

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.

Ye Chiseler

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, escapism, harem, Henry Clive, hollywood, Masquers Club, mural, nude, orientalist, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 18, 2021

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.

Art Nouveau Nude With Purple Iris

Artist: Charles Winter
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1910s, american, art nouveau, Charles Winter, erotic, flowers, Golden Age, iris, Mucha, nude, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 17, 2021

      This is a fabulous example of Gil Elvgren’s pin-up work for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN. This was created and published in 1955 with the title of Welcome Traveler and is one of the finest Elvgren paintings this gallery has offered. A pretty redhead perched on a tweed […]

Welcome Traveler

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, original calendar art, pin up, redhead, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: March 23, 2021

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 […]

Fair and Warmer

Artist: Arnold Armitage
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Arnold Armitage, Calendar, Louis F. Dow, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: August 21, 2020

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 […]

Behind On Her Sleep

Artist: Edward D'Ancona
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, blonde, Calendar, Edward D'Ancona, erotic, glamour, Golden Age, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 15, 2020

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. […]

The Gold Kimono

Artist: Charles Bosseron Chambers
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, charles bosseron chambers, flapper, magazine cover, Norman Platnick, oil painting, original cover art, pulp, Red Book Magazine, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 14, 2020

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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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