The curious and strangely "cultish" world of pin-up and glamour art features paintings and pastels designed to titillate and arouse -- or maybe just amuse -- albeit within the confines of a watchful mainstream modern America. The genre emerged after the turn of the 20th Century. Full-figured, demure yet bold for the times, and coyly fresh art nouveau calendar girls illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, Raphael Kirchner, and Harrison Fisher were in huge demand during the late Victorian years. The following Art Deco, World War II, and post-WWII years showed unflagging popularity for the genre. The wide and varied collection of Pin-Up and Glamour original artworks are all available exclusively through the Grapefruit Moon Gallery website.

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A new to the market and rare surviving pin-up themed oil painting likely commissioned for Brunswick Bowling Equipment. A nostalgic Americana time capsule that dates from the late 1940s-early 50s. A capable and confident young fashion-forward redhead shows off her form on the lane in a clingy sweater and bobby socks in this tightly rendered and luminous oil on board advertising painting. This work is in a fine state of conservation in original limed wood frame, the painting is unsigned but is clearly the work of William Medcalf.

A unique and inventive, large and luminous original pin-up pastel calendar illustration created for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul Minnesota. This was used as a 1958 calendar titled "Moonglow". The model is Jewel Flowers and this is rendered in an electric cobalt blue palette with the model catching the golden hues afforded by a moonlit night. The work is pictured in "The Great American Pin-up" on page 98 plate #95.

A radiant and pristine original pastel glamour pin-up illustration by Pearl Frush, created in 1944 and used in the 1945 Gerlach-Barklow calendar line under the title "Lovely as the Dawn". This really shows to great affect what Frush was able to create with her almost photo-realist in technique pastel mastery. Housed in its handsome original presentation frame properly lined behind glass with a verso tag from Robberson Steel Co. of Oklahoma who was gifted this pastel in exchange for their advertising.

An original pin-up pastel by Jules Erbit created in 1945 and used in 1946 by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company with the title of "It's a Date!". Erbit did a series of these wartime "gossip girl on the phone" images using the same model for several of the eras leading calendar companies. The pastel is properly lined behind glass in its handsome original limed wood frame with dated framing tag and title.

An early art deco pastel glamour girl pin-up pastel used in 1938 by The Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company with the title "Judy". Erbit was a prolific illustrator who worked for seemingly all of the major calendar companies offering a typically wholesome pretty and pert pin-up girl influential in creating the American ideal of feminine beauty and glamour girl allure. This is housed in its remarkable original art deco wide profile frame properly lined behind glass.

This well rendered, calendar published original pin-up pastel from 1941 by Jules Erbit titled "Yours Truly" was created for the Gerlach-Barklow company, Joliet Illinois. Jules Erbit was born in Budapest and started selling his illustrations at the age of fifteen. The artist created hundreds of typically wholesome good girl art calendar girls that were influential in creating the American ideal of feminine beauty and glamour girl allure.

"Angel Face" is a dazzling, nearly photo-realist 1959 original glamour girl pin-up pastel by Pearl Frush which was published by the Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Company of Joliet Illinois. This was gifted by a salesman at Gerlach-Barklow to the Robberson Steel Company of Oklahoma City in appreciation for their lucrative advertising account. Pastel is in a pristine state of conservation in the original gold wide profile frame lined behind glass with plate on front with title and year of print publication.

An early original pin-up pastel on illustration board by pin-up master Earl Moran from 1945 commissioned for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company and used for calendars and printed as a "Hot-cha girl" series mutoscope card with the title "See, I Can Imitate Birds, Too". A flirty erotic art deco era pin-up girl blowing a kiss dressed only in a bow. Pastel is handsomely framed in an ornate gesso frame and lined behind glass.

Earl Moran created this pastel on board pin up illustration in 1946 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. It quickly appeared as the October 1947 image in a twelve page calendar titled "Some Interesting Figures", illustrated entirely by Moran, who was one of the company's star artists. This flirty gossip girl co-ed also appeared as a popular mutoscope arcade card under the title of "Well-I'd Like to See More of You Too". Pastel is properly lined and matted behind glass and a rare surviving example from the golden age of American pin-up.

This 1937 dazzling and fresh (both in scene and technique) original mixed medium illustration painting by George Petty first appeared in Esquire Magazine as a full page color cartoon. It also was published as the first image of a spiral bound folio titled "Petty - A Portfolio from Esquire". One of the crown jewels from the estate of Charles Martignette. The work is framed and matted behind glass and is a defining example of the lithe and modernist Art Deco Petty Girl.