Pre-Code Cover Portrait of Verna Hillie
By Cardwell Higgins
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel on Illustration Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 20.00" x 28.50;" Framed 32.50" x 41.25" Cover Art for Unidentified Title Pre-code Hollywood starlet Verna Hillie is the subject of this erotically charged pastel portrait, which was the title Reel Movie Fun, a short lived wild and racy publication that merged the world of pin-up and burlesque with the envelope pushing film culture emerging from Hollywood before enforcement of the notorious Hays code put an end to overt expressions of sexuality or immorality on screen. Pastel is dated and signed on the back and the sitter is identified in the artist's hand as seen. Beautifully framed and matted behind glass in a handsome gallery frame and ready to hang. Verna Hillie was a Monograph Pictures star who appeared in The Marx brothers comedy "Duck Soup...
1930s Cardwell Higgins Art
Pastel, Illustration Board



