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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

A haunting and menacing editorial political illustration by William Cotton, likely published in a late 1930s edition of Vanity Fair magazine. Pictured are the trio of Axis partners: Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito, with Hitler depicted as the larger and dominant evil force, strong-arming the other two dictators and controlling them as puppets. In […]

The Axis Partners

Artist: William Cotton
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: art deco, avant-garde, modernist, New Yorker, political, Vanity Fair, William Cotton, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 20, 2016

This patriotic, morale boosting, WWII-era red, white and blue cover gouache illustration painting was the cover for the May, 2, 1942 edition of Liberty Magazine. The image depicts a curvy pin-up girl christening a ship as the nattily attired distinguished guests of the ceremony struggle to keep their eyes on the matter at hand. In a humorous nod […]

Christening The Ship

Artist: Stephen Ronay
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, art deco, Golden Age, Liberty, magazine cover, original illustration art, patriotic, pin up, Stephen Ronay, WWII
Added to Gallery: January 4, 2016

  A World War II-era illustration painting for the Nehi brand ginger ale Par-T-Pak. An early soda sold in quart size bottles intended to be shared, in this case by a breezy pin-up girl and her handsome enlisted beau.  The saucy, double entendré tagline reads Neat Treat In The Heat! and as the flirtatious glance suggests, things are indeed about […]

Nehi Soda Par-T-Pak

Artist: Frederick Sands Brunner
Price:  SOLD

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, advertising, F.S. Brunner, Frederick Sands Brunner, Nehi soda, patriotic, pin up, soda fountain, WWII
Added to Gallery: July 31, 2015

      A wholesome, all-American advertising illustration, this gouache on board features the iconic Elsie the Cow. Named one of the Top 10 Advertising Icons of the Century by Ad Age in 2000, Elsie the Cow has been among the most recognizable product logos in the United States. In this ad campaign, Elsie and her […]

Elsie The Cow Illustration For Borden's Milk

Artist: Walter Early (attrib).
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: advertising, Borden's Milk, Elsie The Cow, WWII
Added to Gallery: June 26, 2015

    A haunting, iconic and important, large format painting by Cecil Calvert Beall created for an American World War II Army Air Forces poster titled Bomb's Away!. The backing paper on this watercolor on board still houses the posed source photo, (likely taken by Beall himself) of his son Charles Beall, posed as a B-17G Flying Fortress […]

Bombs Away

Artist: C.C. Beall
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Air Force, B-17G Flying Fortress, patriotic, poster design, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

      An explosive, apocalyptic WWII battle scene rages in this lurid large format illustration painting by Bruce Minney which appeared as the cover for the October 1963 edition of For Men Only magazine. With its strong jawed GIs and busty damsels with dynamite, the cover slug line of "playgirls turned killers..." sexploitive narrative is on full display, […]

Fräulein Raiders

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

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Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, Men's Magazine art, pulp, The Golden Gallery, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

    A daring gang of female POWs rappel down a wall of a secret "Nazi Sex Stalag" atop the perilous heights provided by Germany's notorious Liecht castle, with the help of the "G.I. master escaper" Sergeant Howard Lester. This tense and taut hyper dramatic interior illustration scene by Bruce Minney is a classic example of men's […]

Breakout Girls Of The Sex Stalag

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: American Pickers, Bruce Minney, lurid, menace, nazi, original illustration art, original interior illustration, pulp, sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2015

A large original watercolor illustration by the prolific important American illustrator C. C. Beall. A dramatic scene of unknown usage of a fight on deck a sailing ship on the high seas.

Battle on the High Seas

Artist: C. C. Beall
Price:  $1,950.00

Filed Under: Illustration & Advertising Art
Tagged With: 1940s, american, C. C. Beall, Collier's, navy, original illustration art, ship, WWII
Added to Gallery: July 29, 2013

In the rubble of a war-torn central square in what appears to be Cuba, a ravishing blonde in form fitting red sweater stands unscathed, and seemingly victorious. This unsigned gouache painting comes from a collection of works we recently acquired that date to the early years of Saga Magazine. Saga was a lurid Men's title that thrived in the post-war pulp, low brow magazine market of the early 1950s. On the back of one of the pieces within the collection was a verso tag which read "attributed to Valigursky - For Saga Magazine 40's - 50s."

Shootout At The Cantina

Artist: Ed Valigursky (attributed)
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, Ed Valigursky, gritty, illustration, lurid, original interior illustration, pin up, pulp, Saga Magazine, the sweats, WWII
Added to Gallery: February 14, 2013

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