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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.

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

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, 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

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

He Was Neither A Gentleman Nor A Sculler

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, aquatic, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Gil Elvgren, oil painting, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2020

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!

Enchantment

Artist: Edward Eggleston

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, American Art Works, art deco, Calendar, Edward Eggleston, erotic, fantasy, flapper, Golden Age, Maxfield Parrish, nude, nymph, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: February 1, 2020

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.

Pin-Up Girls of History – Cleopatra

Artist: Henry Clive

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, American Weekly, art deco, Cleopatra, Dorothy Lamour, egyptian, Henry Clive, hollywood, jazz age, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 23, 2019

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 […]

Fisherman’s Luck

Artist: Earl Moran

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, art deco, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, fishing, glamour, Golden Age, original calendar art, original illustration art, pastel, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 4, 2019

      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 […]

Spare?

Artist: Art Frahm

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Bowling, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

      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 […]

Now, This Is Just Between You And Me

Artist: Earl Moran

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold, Uncategorized
Tagged With: Blue Book Model Agency, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Earl Moran, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

Original 1943 painting by Tom Lovell for Cosmopolitan magazine, for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery.

The Occupation Of Paris

Artist: Tom Lovell

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Golden Age, nazi, original illustration art, paris, The Golden Gallery, Tom Lovell, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 30, 2018

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 […]

Gemini

Artist: Bob Peak

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1970s, Bob Peak, illustration, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 20, 2018

Early pin-up pastel illustration by Earl Moran, created for Brown & Bigelow and used in a 1930s Richlube Motor Oil advertising calendar.

Smooth

Artist: Earl Moran

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, advertising, art deco, automobilia, Calendar, Earl Moran, flapper, Golden Age, petroliana, pin up, Richlube Oil, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: November 4, 2018

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