Sale! LEYENDECKER 16x20 on Art PaperMERMAID DECO pinup Unusual rare pin-up Modern Art Mid Century giclee Mermaids 1930s Vanguard Gallery

THE MERMAID circa 1927, by Leyendecker
A visual story of unrequited love.

Now available as a limited edition Giclee 16x20 on art paper

Joseph Christian Leyendecker (March 23, 1874 – July 25, 1951) was one of the preeminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man, and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1896 and 1950, Leyendecker painted more than 400 magazine covers. During the Golden Age of American Illustration, for The Saturday Evening Post alone, J. C. Leyendecker produced 322 covers, as well as many advertisement illustrations for its interior pages. No other artist, until the arrival of Norman Rockwell two decades later, was so solidly identified with one publication. Leyendecker "virtually invented the whole idea of modern magazine design."
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Cover Illustration Image from the 1920s

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PERFECT FOR CONTEMPORARY, MODERN, MID-CENTURY, EAMES, or ART DECO DESIGNS

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"Stunningly beautiful fine art giclee print"


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*** ORIGINAL HAND PAINTED RE-CREATION PAINTING ALSO AVAILABLE

LIKE THIS IMAGE, but want it as a LARGER PAINTING or a Fine Art Canvas Giclee Print?

Please email me for custom COMMISSION paintings on canvas or other prints of this image.

They will be painted on Elvgren's own original vintage easel. We also have large format limited editions too! (Your custom choice will be listed on for your confirmation and protection.)


~ PLEASE SEE MY OTHER NEW ITEMS

~ Lots of pin up girls in vintage nylons, stockings, garter belts, bra, panties & lingerie!

~ Glamour Girls 1940s World War II, Bomber Nose Art & Korean War era Calendar Pin-Ups

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VANGUARD GALLERY OFFERS VERY RARE ART IMAGES:

Many do not know that the vast production of illustration, advertising, pulp, and pinup art was not viewed as "real art" and not appreciated as such. When the advertising, book, and magazine companies were done with the art, it was casually thrown away in dumpsters.

I have interviewed personally those that were there, and just at two of these many, throw away events. In just two events, from just two of scores of companies, one in 1957 and the other in 1960, apx 20,000 pieces of art, spanning about 60 years, by great and highly skilled artists were simply thrown away.

In those dumpsters was Normal Rockwell, Gil Elvgren, Earl Moran, Mabel Rollins Harris, Henry Clive, Zoe Mozert, MacPherson, Pearl Frush, Al Leslie, Henry Hintermeister, Roy Best, Art Frahm, Billy Devorss, Runci, Munson, Thompson, Ward, and that is just to name a few of the many lost artists to work from wide-ranging genre' of religious, nature, nudes, Pulp Fiction, pin-ups, Calendar, and advertising. So anything that survives, even if preserved or recreated thoughtfully is indeed precious.

VANGUARD'S FINE ART PRINT PORTFOLIO:
As much of the original paintings for vintage illustrations were lost, we at Vanguard Gallery have worked hard and invested dearly for 20 years to find and preserve or recreate the very best, find the interesting, the historic, the rare and often important works; representing the popular culture, interests of the times. As popular art is a real window of society. This was a snapshot of the aspirations, dreams, and fantasies of the American people in historically unstable and increasingly violent 20th Century. I time when, family life, love, faith, hope, and romance was the glue that held us together, a staple of life, not merely dismissed as "cute nostalgia".

Our more than 20-year journey and mission is more than just to present you with the ascetic image, but windows of appreciations of the recent past, our history, and again window to your parents and grandparents life.

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