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Written on May 12th, 2010 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
Before Bunny Yeager was old enough to be one, she fantasized about becoming a Pin-Up girl. She realized her dream and much more. After building a successful modeling career, she moved behind the camera, in the 1950s, to become one of the most renowned glamour photographers in the world. Her work has appeared in magazines, calendars, posters, and several books. This book is a celebration of all the emancipated young women with beautiful faces and figures who posed for her in the 1950s, just as she embarked on her career as a professional photographer.
Written on May 5th, 2010 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
Rolf Armstrong’s luminous portraits of famous actresses and idealized girls-next-door made him one of the highest paid commercial artists in America. Widely considered the “Father of Pin-Up Artists,” his first calendar pin-up, created in 1919, defined the vision of feminine beauty for the next forty years. Today, the very same characteristics that defined Armstrong’s art in the first place—grace, vibrancy, and an indescribable lifelike quality—are attracting a growing number of modern art devotees everywhere.
Written on April 5th, 2010 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
From the time Esquire first introduced America to the Varga Girl, in 1940, the name Vargas has been synonymous with pin-up and glamour art. In fact, the word vargas has actually been applied to almost every kind of pin-up subject, a fitting tribute to the most famous and prolific glamour artist of all time.
Filed under Alberto Vargas, Famous Artists, Magazines, Photographs, Playboy
Tags:Alberto Vargas, Esquire, Glamour Art, Nose Art, Pinup, Playboy, Vargas Girl
Written on April 3rd, 2010 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
The storied and turbulent career of glamour artist Alberto Vargas took him from Florenz Ziegfeld’s Follies in the 1920s to Hollywood in the 30s to Esquire magazine and the emergence of the “Varga Girl” in the 40s and, ultimately, to a lasting home at Playboy in the 60s and 70s.
Written on November 7th, 2009 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
Art Frahm compares favorably with such master technicians in oil as Gil Elvgren. But his significance comes out of his defining roles in two seemingly opposite pin up categories. Many of his works were outstanding examples of the glamour genre. His perfectly coifed, daringly dressed beauties glowed in the midst of romantic soft settings.
Written on November 5th, 2009 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
From the time Esquire first introduced America to the Varga Girl in 1940, the name Vargas has been synonymous with pin up and glamour art. In fact, the word “Vargas” has been applied to almost every kind of pin up subject, a fitting tribute to the most famous and prolific glamour artist of all time.
Written on November 5th, 2009 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
Although best known for his pin-ups, his work for Coca Cola and others depicted typical Americans, ordinary people doing everyday things. The women Elvgren painted were never the femme fatale, the female adventuress, or somebody’s mistress. They are the girl next door whose charms are innocently revealed in that fleeting instant when she is caught unaware in what might be an embarrassing situation.
Written on September 13th, 2009 by PinUp Collectorno shouts
The pin up art of George Petty is some very iconic work. His classic pinup girls are very recognizable, and he is regarded as one of the great pin up artists of the golden age. Like Vargas and Elvgren, Petty had a very long career. A master of airbrush art, he began creating pinup calendar images as early as 1926, and his career lasted until the 1970′s.
