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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Original 1943 painting by Tom Lovell for Cosmopolitan magazine, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.
Artist: Tom Lovell
Bob Peak, one of the 20th century’s most significant movie poster illustrators, created this very large and beautiful mixed-media artwork using his signature 1970s opulent style. Mixing rich brown tones with gilt accents that subtly evoke Gustav Klimt, the artwork shows a twin image of a woman in profile, with inscrutable gaze. A dreamcatcher earring […]
Artist: Bob Peak
Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.
Artist: Earl Moran
