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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

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, 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

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

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, 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

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

The WPA artist and art deco designer Vladimir Yoffe interrogates the tension between war and peace, past and future in this abstractly inspired gouache artwork dating to the end of World War II.

The Industry Of War

Artist: Vladimir Yoffe

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art
Tagged With: industrial age, Russian Artist, Vladimir Yoffe, WPA, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 6, 2018

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

This is a gritty Ashcan School-influenced Social Realist depiction of several wounded WW II-enlisted Navy Men reloading a rocket launcher while under heavy attack. A large watercolor-on-artists-paper by the very well listed Boston artist Henry O’Connor, who was a member of the Boston Art Club, president of the Artist Fellowship in New York City and The Salmagundi Club. O’Connor’s work appeared in McClure’s magazine, he illustrated several U.S. Navy books, and did presidential portraits of Roosevelt and his son.

WWII Ashcan School Battle Scene

Artist: Henry O'Connor

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Ashcan School, Henry O'Connor, WWII
Added to Gallery: March 21, 2017

A moody and stirring work by Alton S. Tobey lamenting the loss of souls on February 3rd 1943 in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Work commemorates the lives of four World War II chaplains who made the ultimate sacrifice to save others as their stricken ship went down after coming under attack from German torpedo fire.

The Four Chaplains

Artist: Alton Tobey

Filed Under: Fine & Decorative Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alton Tobey, american, christian, navy, religious, ship, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 24, 2017

A rugged and gritty WWII – era illustration by the prolific American artist E.F. Ward, which was created as part of the advertising campaign for Seiberling Rubber Company. Published as the central image for a magazine interior advertisement that appeared in numerous wartime periodicals, Safe Passage is a large format well-realized gouache on illustration board painting which […]

Safe Passage

Artist: E.F. Ward

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, american, E. F. Ward, Golden Age, military, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 14, 2016

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

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