Billy Devorss (4 results)

Original advertisement for Botany Roses during Word War II printed in 1945. Billy DeVorss pinup artwork with woman holding photo of her man in uniform waiting for his return. Comes with mylar and backing board. 9.5 x 13 inches. Billy DeVorss (1908-1985) American painter pinup artist. 1930s to 1950s best known for cards prints and calendars. Botany Robe ads ran in Esquire in the 1940s.…

This vintage print is pristine. 10" x 13.5".; Print.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Original 1938 Billy Devorss pin-up poster, 30" x 15 1/4". Fine. Published by The Weiller Company, a Philadelphia poster printer of that era. "Posing Pretty", featuring a fetching model in a thoroughly clinging satin gown with flamboyant red hat (see scan). One of the nearest to pristine posters I've seen from the thirties. Billy Devorss' work was then - and remains - immensely popular, lightly blending, as it did, the pin-up style with a hint or Art Deco. One of a handful of pin-up artists to achieve super-star status. Printed stylish artist's signature located under model's posterior on the print. Original thirties print, not a reproduction. Ships rolled. LRAB. Devorss, Billy (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Heavy volume, 380 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm ; 380 p. : ill. en noir et en coul., jaquette ill. en coul. ; 33 cm ; ISBN 9783822883419, 3822883417 OCLC 36345279 blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Artists included are: Vaughan Alden Bass -- Arnold Armitage -- Rolf Armstrong -- Joyce Ballantyne -- McClelland Barclay -- Ben-Hur Baz -- Earle K. Bergey -- Roy Best -- Enoch Bolles -- Harry C. Bradley -- Al Brule -- Al Buell -- Eddie Chan -- Ernest Chiriacka -- Henry Clive -- Forest Clough -- Howard Connolly -- Bradshaw Crandell -- Edward D'Ancona -- Ruth Deckard -- Joe DeMers -- Billy DeVorss -- Peter Driben -- Edward M. Egglestone -- Harry Ekman -- Freeman Elliot -- Gil Elvgren -- Merlin Enabnit -- Jules Erbit -- Art Frahm -- Pearl Frush -- Q. Wilson Hammell -- Magel Rollins Harris -- Cardwell S. Higgins -- Hy Hintermeister -- Arnold Kohn -- Mike Ludlow -- Earl MacPherson -- Bill Medcalf -- M. Miller -- Frederik Mizen -- Al Moore -- Earl Moran -- Zoe Mozert -- K. O. Munson -- Mayo Olmstead -- Walt Otto -- Laurette and Irene Patten -- George Petty -- Jay Scott Pike -- Gene Pressler -- George Quintana -- Bill Randall -- Edward Runci -- Arthur Samoff -- Mauro Scali -- Lou Shabner -- Charles Gates Sheldon -- John Shilling/Jack Whittrup -- Showalter -- Robert Skemp -- Francis Smilby -- J. Frederick Smith -- William Fulton Soare -- T. N. Thompson -- Alberto Vargas -- Hugh J. Ward -- Fritz Willis -- Ted Withers -- Al Buell -- Edward D'Ancona -- Billy De Vorss -- Peter Driben -- Harry Ekman -- Freeman Elliot -- Gil Elvgren -- Art Frahm -- Pearl Frush -- Earl MacPherson -- Al Moore -- Earl Moran -- Zoë Mozert -- K. O. Munson -- George Petty -- Edward Runci -- T. N. Thompson -- Alberto Vargas -- Fritz Willis -- Ted Withers, also Howard Chandler Christy, Virgil Finlay, Harrison Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg, Charles Dana Gibson, George Gross, Rudy Nappi, Cole Phillips, Paul Rader, William Reusswig, Arthur Sarnoff, Charles Showalter, J. Frederick Smith, William Fulton Soare, and Hugh J. Ward ; FINE. Book.…