This large pastel, titled "Delightful" pictures Rolf Armstrong's favorite model, Jewel Flowers. It was used in the 1961 Brown and Bigelow calendar line. Armstrong always painted from live models .....
In the 1920's, Rolf Armstrong painted 5 of his most well-known oil painting images for Brown and Bigelow Calendar Company. This pastel of the "Song of India" was created by Armstrong and presented as a Christmas gift in 1930 to Harry Kranhold, a vice-president of Brown and Bigelow .....
This is the cover page from the personal scrapbook belonging to Jewel Flowers.
Jewel was the favorite model of Rolf Armstrong, one of America's premiere pin up
artists .....
This is a pristine example of one of Rolf Armstrong's series of cowgirl images created for the Brown and Bigelow Calendar Company, titled "Come And Get It!", and "Soup's On!". The model for this series was Jewel Flowers .....
This F. Earl Christy painting was created for use as a calendar in 1915 for the American Artworks Company of Coshocton, Ohio. There were twelve different images, one for each month of the year, and each with a beautiful young girl holding a trophy she had won in a competition. The calendar print for this image is titled, "Aeroplane". In 1915, few people had actually seen an aeroplane fly .....
This original gouache on board painting was created by Henry Clive for use as the cover for the August 6, 1944 issue of William Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly Magazine. Clive created a series of covers for American Weekly using the theme, “Global Glamour”, which highlighted women of different cultures from areas throughout the world during World War II .....
This is a gouache on board painting of an Indian maiden, created by Henry Clive for for the June 18, 1933 edition of William Randolph Hearst's The American Weekly Magazine. The publisher often asked Clive to create images of enchantresses that shared a common theme .....
This pretty girl oil on canvas painting was created by Haskell Coffin for the cover of the Fall and Winter 1914-1915 catalog for Perry, Dame and Company of New York .....
This gouache and pastel on board painting was created by Bradshaw Crandell for the April, 1942 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. The man in the Navy uniform was a young Yale law student named Gerald Ford, who would go on to become the 38th president of the United States. The beautiful blonde model was Phyllis Brown, college sweetheart of Gerald Ford, and one of Crandell's favorite models .....
This oil on board painting was created by Edna Crompton for the March 31, 1917 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. This is a wonderful image of a young woman admiring a hat on display in a store, as she window shops. The expression on her face tells us that she is dreaming .....
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Edward M. Eggleston
This oil on canvas painting, titled, "You Are The One" by Edward M. Eggleston, was created for use as a calendar, dated 1940. This is a great example of his brilliant use of color and light, used on many of his illustrations. The girl in this painting is stunning in her beautiful flowing gown .....
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Pearl Frush - "Forever Yours"
This pastel on board was created by Pearl Frush for the Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company for use as a calendar in 1962. This image, titled, "Forever Yours" is a flawless example of one of her best works. Though many of her pin-up paintings were rendered in watercolor, she preferred pastels when creating the more wholesome glamour girl images .....
