Jean Arthur Calamity Jane Vintage 1936 The Plainsman Wild West Whip Photograph

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Jean Arthur Calamity Jane Vintage 1936 The Plainsman Wild West Whip Photograph:
$22.72

Thanks to all our buyers! We are honored to be your one-stop, 5-star source for vintage pin up, pulp magazines, original illustration art, decorative collectibles and ephemera with a wide and always changed assortment of antique and vintage items from the Victorian, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-Century Modern eras. All items are 100% guaranteed to be original, vintage, and as described. Please feel free to contact us with any and all questions about the items and our policies and please take a moment to peruse our other great items. All sell !ITEM: This is a vintage and original photograph of Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane in the Gary Cooper film The Plainsman (1936). Arthur is a wild western woman wielding a whip in this fun old Hollywood still.This comes from the estate of legendary pulp cover artist Norman Saunders. Please see below for more information about this exciting collection.Measures 8\" x 10\" on a glossy single weight paper stock.CONDITION: Good condition with scattered soiling/surface wear, creasing throughout the margins, and storage/handling throughout. Please use the included images as a conditional guide.*****************Grapefruit Moon Gallery is thrilled to have the opportunity to sell on our sale site this rare original vintage photograph from the estate ofpulp artist Norman Saunders. Like many working illustrators in the pre-internet age, Saunders was always on the look out for photograph and images to use as reference in the creation of his inventive narrative illustration paintings. In the 1930s, Saunders was working as a staff artist at Fawcett Publications in Minneapolis Minnesota. Fawcett put out a number of Hollywood fan magazines, such as Screen Secrets, Hollywood Magazine, and Motion Picture Magazine. Jack Gilrat Smalley & Rosco Kent Fawcett, editors of the publishing company, would give Saunders photographs which came into the offices for his personal use, and in later years upon his move to New York City to pursue his career as a freelance artist, he brought the photographs he had collected with him, and continued to use them as reference material for his illustrations during the rest of his professional career.The majority of these stills are from the pre-code era, and the collection includes everything from Edwin Bower Hesser nudes from Jean Harlow\'s notorious Griffith Park sitting to behind the scenes stills of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.It is fascinating to see the collection as a whole, and to find examples where we can see how these images were transformed into illustration, and even occasionally see the trace of a finger print in paint along the margins. We are enthralled, and have included a couple of shots from the collection for reference. The below images are not included with sale.Paypal Buyers Are Invited To grapefruitmoongallery\'s Fresh sale Weekly Newsletter