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.
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
Earl Moran's Harum-Scarum Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer Harum-Scarum, an original 1948 pastel created for the Brown & Bigelow calendar company. The image features a colorful cheesecake pin-up take on a classically inspired harem girl. The model for this artwork was a young Marilyn Monroe, who worked frequently with Earl Moran during her […]
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $25,000.00
This fabulous original Film Fun cover painting by Enoch Bolles appeared on their September 1933 edition with the title Worth Wading For. In an effort to make the most of the end of summer, a flirty modernist red-headed bathing beauty flapper girl dares the cold water as she embarks on her first […]
Artist: Enoch Bolles
Price: $45,000.00
An early and exceptional original pastel by Rolf Armstrong which was marketed under the name Dream Girl or Dream Girl II and reproduced as an early calendar print by Brown & Bigelow. Appeared on a 1928 Calendar but was most likely done several years earlier. A defining and important early example by the " Father of American Pin-up". A printed Brown & Bigelow advertising calendar from the year 1930 is included in the sale.
Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price: $23,500.00
This rare original painting by Henry Clive graced the cover of the October 13, 1946 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly. Clive often played with serialized themes in his work for the magazine, and this Egyptian inspired image was from a series entitled "Pin-up Girls of History." Pictured as Cleopatra is the lovely Hollywood film star Dorothy Lamour, whose impossibly good looks and exotic features draw comparison to the legendary queen of the Nile, though the actress never portrayed her in film.
Artist: Henry Clive
Price: SOLD
Earl Moran created this coquettish and sassy pin-up pastel for Brown and Bigelow's 1941 calendar line. It was published with the title Fishermans's Luck. The image shows an outdoorsy redhead beauty fly fishing wading into the water, legs on full display. This fresh-to-the-market original pastel is in a pristine state of conservation and retains the […]
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: $19,500.00
This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist's "Embarrassment Series" images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to […]
Artist: Art Frahm
Price: SOLD
Our Gallery previously sold this pastel in April of 2015; we are very pleased to offer it again for sale! Grapefruit Moon Gallery is delighted to offer one of the finest Earl Moran pastels ever available for sale. Titled Now, This Is Just Between You And Me, this showcases the young Blue […]
Artist: Earl Moran
Price: Sold
For sale is an original pin-up calendar painting by Edward Runci that was published in 1953 by the Shaw-Barton Calendar Company.
Artist: Edward Runci
Price: $16,500.00
Original 1943 painting by Tom Lovell for Cosmopolitan magazine, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Tom Lovell
Price: $35,000.00
