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This original gouache painting by Henry Clive was used as the cover of Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine, August 6, 1944. One from a series of covers that glorified the beauty of women from the cultures America found itself allied with during the dark days of World War II, Global Glamour presented a rare opportunity for Clive to depict women from a variety of races in the guise of pin up and glamour art.

Global Glamour – Alaska

Artist: Henry Clive
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, alaska, american, American Weekly, eskimo, glamour, Henry Clive, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, Randolph Hearst, winter, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 18, 2012

Original cover art from a story by Ed Harbarcher from the pages of the July 1973 Adventure for Men . Story is titled I Nailed The Nazis From A Galloping Goose. Artwork is a gouache on illustration boardby the listed illustrator Bruce Minney. Men’s adventure is a genre of magazines that had its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s. Catering to a male audience, these magazines featured pin-up photography and lurid tales of adventure that typically featured wartime feats of daring, exotic travel, or conflict with wild animals.

From A Galloping Goose

Artist: Bruce Minney
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1970s, Adventure for Men, american, Bruce Minney, nazi, original cover art, pulp, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 5, 2012

Offered here is an original piece of camera ready artwork–pen and ink with collage elements–created for billboard advertising usage during World War II.

All America’s Clicking!

Artist: Cardwell Higgins
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: advertising, Billboard, Cardwell Higgins, illustration, Knitting, Pen & Ink, USO, World War II, WWII
Added to Gallery: September 18, 2012

A striking in technique light and shadow in composition rare surviving original pastel on illustration board by Earl MacPherson created in the 1940s for a Patriotic pin-up brochure with text on how to survive an enemy military air raid and subsequent blackout. We will be selling all of the pastels from this important commissioned homeland wartime “Blackout Brochure”. This was a cheeky, lighthearted morale boosting effort making great use of double entendre and the talents of MacPherson to fight fear during World War II.

Incendiary Bombs

Artist: Earl MacPherson
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Earl MacPherson, erotic, military, nude, patriotic, pin up, WWII
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2010

An electric in composition rare surviving original pastel on illustration board by Earl MacPherson created in the 1940s for a Patriotic pin-up brochure with text on how to survive an enemy military air raid and subsequent blackout. We will be selling all of the pastels from this important commissioned homeland wartime “Blackout Brochure”. This was a cheeky, lighthearted morale boosting effort making great use of double entendre and the talents of MacPherson to fight fear during World War II.

Comfort Beside You

Artist: Earl MacPherson
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, Earl MacPherson, erotic, nude, pin up, stuffed animal, WWII
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2010

This radiant, fabulously large original pastel by Rolf Armstrong was created in 1941 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Titled “Figured To Win,” this original and previously undocumented beautiful illustration incorporates two of the artist’s great loves in life; sailing and Jewel Flowers. This pastel was owned for many years by Jewel herself, who was Armstrong’s favorite model and dearest friend for nearly two decades.

Figured To Win

Artist: Rolf Armstrong
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, aquatic, bathing beauty, Brown & Bigelow, Great American Pin-up, Jewel Flowers, original calendar art, pin up, Rolf Armstrong, sailor, WWII
Added to Gallery: August 1, 2010

This original 1942 oil-on-board artwork by well listed female artist Bettina Steinke was commissioned for a United States Government WWII poster titled “Keep ‘Em Flying”. The image also became popular as a calendar art print titled “When They Came Marching Home” for The Louis F. Dow calendar company during the years of World War II and the immediate post-war period. The image became one of the enduring pictures of a changing America during wartime, featuring a victory girl nurse and armed forces servicemen working together to protect the nation.

Keep ‘Em Flying

Artist: Bettina Steinke
Price:  S O L D

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Tagged With: 1940s, american, Bettina Steinke, illustration, Louis F. Dow, military, nurse, original calendar art, patriotic, poster design, victory girl, WPA, WWII
Added to Gallery: July 20, 2010

An unusual and impacting Edwin Georgi interior illustration that appeared in The March 1952 Edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine in a story titled “The Coward”. A luminous and other wordly Georgi-girl seemingly kissing an enlisted soldier engaged in fierce combat goodbye.

The Coward

Artist: Edwin Georgi
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Tagged With: 1950s, american, Edwin Georgi, mid-century, original interior illustration, pin up, WWII
Added to Gallery: January 16, 2010

A mixed media work by Alton S. Tobey in pencil and oils depicting a pair of African American Navy Midshipmen toiling at work. This work from the WPA era is handsomely framed in a period wide profile gesso frame behind glass.

The Climbers

Artist: Alton Tobey
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Tagged With: 1940s, Alton Tobey, american, muralist, navy, WPA, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 24, 2008

Featuring a Depression-era machinist at work creating a Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine, this 1940 artwork by WPA artist Alton Tobey combines the unusual muted palate and composition of the regionalist movement with the dystopian feel of the surrealists. This powerful oil on canvas was created for the East Hartford Pratt & Whitney plant, and presents a deeply moving picture of industrialism in the lead up to World War II.

WPA Machinist

Artist: Alton Tobey
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, Alton Tobey, american, aviation, Great Depression, industrial age, machine age, muralist, regionalist, surreal, WPA, WWII
Added to Gallery: November 16, 2008

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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