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PIN-UP GIRLS (Part 2)
A pin-up girl or pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. Pin-ups are intended for informal display. Pin-up girls are glamour models, fashion models, and actresses.
Pin-up may also refer to drawings, paintings and other illustrations done in emulation of these photos (see the List of pinup artists). The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s. The pin up images could be cut out of magazines or newspapers, or be from postcard or chromo-lithographs, and so on. Such photos often appear on calendars, which are meant to be pinned up anyway. Later, posters of pin-up girls were mass-produced.
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin-up_girl
ART BY:
Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960)
Born in Seattle in 1899, Armstrong grew up in the rugged environment of the Pacific Northwest. He moved to Chicago in 1908 and later enrolled at the Art Institute, where he studied for three years under the master draftsman John Vanderpoel. He then went on to New York, where he became a student of Robert Henri. Athletic as well as artistic, Armstrong both boxed and sketched at the New York Athletic Club.
MORE: http://www.thepinupfiles.com/armstrong.html
ART BY:
Joyce Ballantyne (1918- )
Ballantyne was born in Norfolk, Nebraska, just after World War One. She attended Nebraska University for two years, painting murals in her spare time for department stores and movie theatres before leaving to study commercial art. After studying at the Academy of Art in Chicago for two years, she joined Kling Studios, where she painted Rand McNally road maps and illustrated a dictionary for the Cameo Press.
MORE: http://www.thepinupfiles.com/ballantyne.html
ART BY:
Al Buell (1910 - 1996)
Alfred Leslie Buell was born in 1910 in Hiawatha, Kansas. He briefly considered an engineering career before classes at the Chicago Art Institute and a trip to New York decided him on art.
MORE: http://www.thepinupfiles.com/buell.html
ART BY:
Edward D'Ancona
Although D'Ancona was a prolific pin-up artist who produced hundreds of enjoyable images, almost nothing is known about his background. He sometimes signed his paintings with the name "D'Amarie", but his real name appears on numerous calendar prints published from the mid 1930s through the mid 1950s, and perhaps as late as 1960.
MORE: http://www.thepinupfiles.com/dancona.html
ART BY:
Peter Driben (D. 1975)
Peter Driben was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of the 1940's and 50's. Although both Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren have extensive catalogues of work, neither came close to the output of Driben.
MORE: http://www.thepinupfiles.com/driben.html
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