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This website is dedicated to all pin-up artists, photographers, and models who have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the pin-up art genre. This site has been set up to showcase their work, provide brief bios of each artist, and to serve as a directory of the who's who in American-style pin-up art.
Vargas, Alberto - The American Pin-Up — A Directory of ...
Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez was a painter and illustrator of pin-up girls and is often considered one of the most famous pin-up artists of all time. Born February 9, 1896, in Peru to photographer Max Vargas and his wife, Margarita, Alberto was inspired early on by the paintings of Jean-Dominique Ingres and by Raphael Kirchner’s ...
Directory - The American Pin-Up — A Directory of Classic and ...
This website is dedicated to all pin-up artists, photographers, and models who have contributed, and continue to contribute, to the pin-up art genre. This site has been set up to showcase their work, provide brief bios of each artist, and to serve as a directory of the who's who in American-style pin-up art.
Gil Elvgren The Complete Pin Ups : Jill Elvgren : Free ...
Oct 25, 2023 · Jill Elvgren was the premier pin-up artist of the twentieth century. Throughout his professional career, which began in the mid-1930s and spanned more than forty years, he established himself as a clear favorite among pin-up collectors and fans worldwide.
Gil Elvgren - Grapefruit Moon Gallery
Gillete Elvgren is regarded today as the most technically proficient and gifted commercial pin-up artist of the 20th century, a prolific and hard working perfectionist who created luminous portraits of the mischievous girl next door for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company and later the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company.
The History of Pin-Up Art: From Scantily Clad Beauties to ...
In the 1920s and 30s, pin-up art began to evolve into a distinct genre. Artists like Rolf Armstrong and Alberto Vargas created highly stylized illustrations of glamorous women, often posing in provocative or suggestive ways.
Gil Elvgren – The Classic American Pin Up Girl - My Modern Met
Jul 23, 2009 · It's often stated that Gil Elvgren was and continues to be the best pin-up artist the world has ever known. From the mid 1930's through 1972, Elvgren produced over five hundred paintings of beautiful girls and women and almost all of them were made with oil on canvas.