Jean Harlow Nude

Jean Harlow Nude
Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
A very rare original first generation gelatin silver sepia antique photograph of the young and nude artfully posed film legend Jean Harlow. From her infamous 1929 romp in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park. This was a frequent location for nude photo shoots by Edwin Bower Hesser who took this photograph and used it and hundreds of others in his 1920s – early 30s Art Studies Photo Periodicals. Harlow was an unknown model at this time (much like Norma Jean in her pre – Marilyn Monroe Blue Book model agency pin-up model days) the following year her career took off on a tragically short trajectory as she appeared in the Howard Hughes feature film “Hell’s Angels”.
This photo shoot has been documented in recent editions of Playboy Magazine which has run several articles on Hesser and this photo shoot with the young Jean Harlow specifically. This is 100% guaranteed an original first generation Edwin Bower Hesser photograph and the model is guaranteed to be Jean Harlow. This is the original document — not a reprint of any kind, we have several stills from this collection we will be offering at Grapefruit Moon Gallery. Below are a few examples of Edwin Bower Hesser printed and published materials for reference and usage clarification, they are not included with the photograph.
Edwin Bower Hesser was born Karl Edwin Hesser on April 23, 1893 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Born into a theatrical family with a theatrical company manager as a father and an art teacher as a mother, Hesser became involved in theater, drawing, sculpture, painting, and commercial photography at the age of 17. In 1914, he married Rhea May Reed in Aberdeen, South Dakota while managing a theatrical troupe. In 1917, Hesser wrote the story for a theatrical film entitled For the Freedom of the World and wrote, produced, and directed The Triumph of Venus that same year. In 1918, Hesser was commissioned as Captain in the Photographic Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps where he reorganized the motion picture photographic division of the Army. Later that year, Hesser received an honorable discharge and moved to New York City. He also separated from his wife Rhea, who later divorced him in 1920. Hesser was employed as a writer and producer by First National Pictures, and then started his own independent photographic studio. Hesser moved to Los Angeles in 1920 to continue to work for First National Pictures, he became the portrait photographer for the studio’s stars (he still maintained his photo studio in New York). That same year, he also started up a second independent photography studio in Los Angeles while working as a photographer for the L.A. Examiner. In his independent photography studios Hesser focused mainly on calendar pictures and art illustrations for major photographic magazines, and continued his portraiture work of theatrical and Hollywood personalities. In 1925, he began his own magazine entitled Arts Monthly Pictorial, which featured his photographic work of nude and semi-nude women. He married his second wife, Margaret Watts, in 1931, but she left and divorced him in 1933 to marry Ridgeway Callow. On July 1, 1934, Hesser married his former model Eve, who became a major collaborator in his photographic business. Eve’s father, Clarence Cunningham, became the chief financier of Hesser’s business and helped him finance the development of his own three-color system known as Hessercolor. This color system involved three separate negatives that captured three color values. Gelatin prints (yellow, cyan, and magenta) were then made from the negatives and layered together to create one color print. Hessercolor was used on the sets of early Technicolor films such as La Cucaracha (1934) and Becky Sharp (1935). After loosing the battle to Kodak for the use of his color system in World War II photography, Hesser’s career began to focus on war-time inventions such as an aerial color camera and water and flame proof insulation for military airplanes. He continued his magazine and fashion photography into the 1940s, shooting on Kodachrome, and also began to do family and individual portraiture for hire. Throughout his life, Hesser experienced numerous health problems. He died August 7, 1962.
Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser Price: S O L D
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Above: Detail of the young artfully posed Jean Harlow
Above: Full view of sepia gelatin silver untrimmed photograph with margins
Above: Interior Title page of Arts Monthly Pictorial with text by Edwin Bower Hesser
Above: Interior photo-plate from Hesser Arts Monthly Pictorial Magazine with photograph notes and title devised by Hesser

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A blonde bombshell before Marilyn? You bet. Her name was Jean Harlow, and in my estimation, she appeared in more great pictures than Monroe, while spending even less time on the planet.
As if foreseeing her own short lifespan, Jean was restless and adventurous from the start. Born Harlean Carpenter to a successful dentist and his wife in 1911, she escaped her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri at age 16 by eloping with an older man. She landed in L.A, and though her marriage quickly dissolved (as would the two others that followed), she'd found a new home and a new calling: show business. As the pictures below attest, she was a natural. Though both young and petite ( her friends affectionately called her "Baby"), she also exuded a frank, forthright sexuality. It was not all an act: she hated undergarments, and always slept in the nude. Before a scene, she'd put ice on her breasts to get just the right effect. The writer Graham Greene once quipped that she used her breasts the way men would use a gun. She knew who she was and what she had- and she used it. Having paid her dues in a series of shorts and walk-ons, Jean got her big break in Howard Hughes's legendary aerial picture, " Hell's Angels " (1930). Within the next two years, she'd appear in two enduring classics: 1931's " The Public Enemy " and 1932's " Red Dust ", starring Clark Gable. (She and Gable would become close friends and make six pictures together.) More outstanding movies followed, including " Dinner at Eight " (1933), " China Seas " (1935), and " Libeled Lady " (1936), a superb screwball comedy co-starring her then- fiancé, William Powell. Tragically, the following year Jean became seriously ill with a kidney condition. She died of uremic poisoning at age 26.
Since her star had risen at MGM, studio head Louis B. Mayer arranged a lavish, Hollywood-style funeral. A heartbroken Bill Powell paid for an elaborate headstone, where flowers from him would be delivered regularly for years to come. And her final film, "Saratoga," would be the biggest box office hit of 1937. Before Norma Jean, there was simply Jean. Feast your eyes on what all the fuss was about, way back when.
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