High and Dry
A classic situational cheesecake pin up mishap unfolds in this original Louis F. Dow calendar painting by the Chicago area artist Charles Showalter titled "High & Dry." The lovely nude is caught,...
View ArticleA Hitch in Time
An iconic early original pin up oil painting by Gil Elvgren for the Louis F. Dow calendar company of Saint Paul, Minnesota titled "A Hitch in Time." In this never before offered published calendar...
View ArticleLost Girls Found
We are thrilled to announce the discovery of several original pin up paintings from the Louis F. Dow calendar company of Saint Paul, Minnesota, never before offered to the public. “A Hitch in Time,”...
View ArticleNew Moon Halloween
Did you know that this year Halloween fell at the new moon? What better reason to use the day to celebrate our new office, and welcome the newest member of our team, Ali. Somehow with only four people,...
View ArticlePre-Code Talk
With the advent of sound in the early 1920s and its adoption by feature length films in 1927, films got dirtier. During the silent era the lack of dialogue constrained plots, and with sound...
View ArticleFlapper Girl Painted by Pierrot
An enchanting and one of a kind original watercolor by my favorite illustrator, Henry Clive. Given as a Christmas present in 1928. Inscribed "Dear old Art -- Be good and you'll be eccentric." Dated...
View ArticleA Victory Roll
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...
View ArticleCleopatra of the Nile
Cleopatra is one of only two original commissioned calendar pin-up paintings created by Henry Clive for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company of Saint Paul Minnesota, the other work Sultana was...
View ArticleEvent In The Loft
A stark and WPA in aesthetic signed oil on canvas painting by the important Minnesota artist Dewey Albinson. This was exhibited as fine art and is titled on verso in the original exhibition tag...
View ArticleGil Elvgren Pin-up Sketch
This original late 1940s-early 1950s pin-up sketch drawing is attributed to Gil Elvgren and was originally purchased from the artist's son. Years ago, this was acquired by our colleague Rick...
View ArticleDown And Out
A lurid and prototypically noir paperback cover painting by the prolific American artist and illustrator Victor Olson, for the 1965 Midwood Book title Down And Out. Written by Les Masters - a well...
View ArticleThe Blonde
A wildly erotic and revealed pin-up girl cover painting by the well regarded and prolific American illustrator and cover artist Paul Rader, for the 1960 Midwood Book titled "The Blonde". Part of...
View ArticleA history of the cocktail shaker, just in time for New Year's
An iconic Prohibition-era chromium cocktail shaker from Faberware A history of the cocktail and their shakers in American society. Though Happy Hour had existed since the turn of the century, when 5 pm...
View ArticleA Bustling Brooklyn Avenue
A bustling street scene of the artist's native Brooklyn New York, with tenements and street vendors on view on a picturesque busy New York corner. The painting is signed lower left F. Krieger, and was...
View ArticleNikki in the Hayloft
This fall themed, rural Americana cheesecake pin up illustration graced the September 1957 page of Bill Randall's wildly popular "Randall's Date Book" 12 page calendar series. For his "Date Book"...
View ArticleA Snowball Fight With Jackie
This lighthearted cheesecake pin up illustration graced the January 1957 page of Bill Randall's wildly popular "Randall's Date Book" 12 page calendar series. For his "Date Book" commissions,...
View ArticleConfrontation in the Artist's Studio
A stylized and dramatic large gouache interior magazine illustration of unknown usage by the well regarded American Golden Age Illustrator Wilmot Emerton Heitland. In this art deco dramatic scene, a...
View ArticleWhen Pat Goes out to Play
This lighthearted cheesecake pin up illustration graced the January 1956 page of Bill Randall's wildly popular "Randall's Date Book" 12 page calendar series. For his "Date Book" commissions,...
View ArticleModern Girl Book Cover Girl
A signed original pastel on illustration board from the late 1930's by the prolific cover artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins of an oddly alluring modernist blonde showgirl. We believe...
View ArticleModern Girl Book Pin-up Girl
This original pastel on illustration board by the prolific cover artist and pin-up illustrator Cardwell Higgins features an oddly alluring modernist brunette showgirl. Used as the cover for the May,...
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