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World War II

Global Glamour – Typical Beauties on All Our War Fronts A fine surviving cover illustration painting by Henry Clive for the August 27, 1944 edition of “The American Weekly”, a Randolph Hearst publication. Clive enjoyed a three decade long association with this title, he often created serialized successive monthly covers of female heroines throughout history. […]

Global Glamour – Normandy

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, American Weekly, Cover Art, gouache, Henry Clive, Norman Platnick, pin up, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: June 17, 2020

A squared detail view of the original gouache on board painting titled "Not So Simple" by Dick Williams. Published in an issue of Collier's magazine.

Not So Simple – A Gouache Illustration by Dick Williams Up for sale is a beautifully rendered and emotionally wrought World War II-era gouache painting by artist and illustrator Dick Williams. In this published work of art, a young, blonde haired, blue-eyed, girl-next-door lies on her bed surrounded by letters from her beau who is […]

Not So Simple

Artist: Dick Williams
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, blonde, Collier's, Dick Williams, gouache, magazine illustration, original interior illustration, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: March 5, 2020

A Lot To Learn

This large World War II-era illustration is a sprawling depiction of life in Japan for American soldiers. Created with gouache and watercolor by artist and illustrator Stevan Dohanos, this image was published in the July 3, 1943 issue of The Saturday Evening Post to illustrate the short story “A Lot To Learn” by Hal G. […]

A Lot To Learn

Artist: Stevan Dohanos
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Calendar, original interior illustration, soldiers, Stevan Dohanos, The Saturday Evening Post, Watercolor, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: October 2, 2019

In part one of our blog series on Jewel Flowers, we explored how the model rose from teenaged North Carolina beauty queen to become muse and adored friend to illustrator and Father of American Pin-Up, Rolf Armstrong as well as how the pair’s keen eye for fashion translated into the gorgeous costumes seen in Armstrong’s pastels. […]

Jewel Flowers Behind The Scenes; Part 2

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Calendar, illustration, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: April 18, 2018

The orginal painting takes inspiration from the suffering Burne Hogarth saw growing up in the Depression and is influenced by the WPA regionalist movement.

The Sky Opened Up

Artist: Burne Hogarth
Price: $6,500.00 $4,550.00

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: Burne Hogarth, regionalist, surreal, Tarzan, World War II, WPA
Added to Gallery: January 24, 2018

Jewel Flowers; a diminutive gem of an artist’s model who was muse to Rolf Armstrong for half his career, and whose popularity at times threatened to surpass his. Armstrong began the 1940s known for vampy flappers and radiant pin-ups with art deco sophistication, a style that was waning in popularity at the time. His meeting with Flowers, an unknown […]

Jewel Flowers Behind the Scenes; Part 1

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1940s, Artist's Model, Brown & Bigelow, Calendar, Dress, Jewel Flowers, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, Trench Art, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 26, 2016

The moment when Rita Hayworth pops onscreen for the first time in Gilda ranks among the most iconic film introductions of the 20th century. Her gravity defying hair flip and blinding smile seemed to epitomize mischievous flirtation, and through the extensive publicity campaign surrounding the film and a series of now legendary glamour photos by Robert […]

Billy Devorss, Rita Hayworth and the Public Imagination

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: Billy DeVorss, George Petty, Gilda, Henry Clive, hollywood, Irv Winer, pin up, Rita Hayworth, World War II
Added to Gallery: January 10, 2016

Public art in the 1930s is today synonymous with the Works Progress Administration–a New Deal Federal program that underwrote regionalist and modernist fine artists by commissioning their work for murals that can still be seen throughout the United States. Less often remembered is how private industries during the Great Depression and World War II became patrons of the […]

Art and Industry During World War II

Filed Under: Gallery Blog
Tagged With: 1930s, 1940s, advertising, american, illustration, magazine cover, regionalist, World War II, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 23, 2015

    A stunning, patriotic World War II era pastel by famed American illustrator Bradshaw Crandell. This appeared as the cover of the April, 1942 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. Intriguingly, posed in the Navy uniform was a young Yale Law student and male model named Gerald Ford, who would go on to be the 38th president of the United States. The pretty […]

Cosmopolitan Clinch

Artist: Bradshaw Crandell
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: american, art deco, Bradshaw Crandell, Gerald Ford, Golden Age, magazine cover, original cover art, patriotic, pin up, World War II
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

A patriotic red, white and blue in color 1940s WWII era original pin-up painting by the prolific calendar artist Walt Otto. A darling depiction of a curvy brunette pin-up girl bowling, in sexy Victory Girl attire. Otto made a career of creating the active type pin-up, his paintings appeared twice as covers for the Saturday […]

A Victory Roll

Artist: Walt Otto
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Bowling, patriotic, The Golden Gallery, victory girl, World War II
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2013

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