this man refused to open his eyes

While I was coloring this, I realized I needed some lighter purples (since all the lightest I had was the color of her pants). 

Based on this.

jaleengrove:

Howard Chandler Christy specialized in Edwardian era pretty-girl subjects painted with the sort of looseness popular with the American bourgeois classes of the late Gilded Age. He’s remembered today for the WW I poster captioned “Gee! If I were a boy I’d join the US Navy!” with a grinning girl wearing her brother’s sailor outfit. Here, such fluff is abandoned for a more serious message (without abandoning the girl as object of a salacious gaze, note). He combines a 19th C allegory with a flapper, to create this rather spooky comment on modernity and its attractions and pitfalls. Some of the technical aspects are a bit iffy - weird shadow on the chest area - but the painting, taken as a whole, is to my mind his most interesting and contains some superb passages. It will be offered Dec 10 at Illustration House’s next auction; more eye candy  on the site.

hollyhocksandtulips:

Illustration by Fritz Willis, 1966

Fritz Willis

notpulpcovers:

Hello, Neighbor! I see you also enjoy the refreshing taste of an ice cold Coca-Cola!

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eachdayaflower:

J.C. Leyendecker, detail

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suicideblonde:

Norman Rockwell

One of my favorites of Rockwell’s.

annadowdall:

The Elf Mother

Cory Godbey

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drawnblog:

Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was a celebrated and prolific American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson’s art deco magazine illustrations helped promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as the flapper. (via Russell Patterson - Wikipedia)

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mediumaevum:

Norman Rockwell, Boy reading an adventure story

1419 × 1950

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