Strange Tears: pin-up art

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Friday, June 26, 2020

Alberto Vargas (1896-1982)

Alberto Vargas (1896-1982), Peruvian pin-up artist.

Alberto Vargas, Woman With Cat, 1919

Alberto Vargas Broadway Showgirl, 1928

Alberto Vargas Trick or Treat, Playboy, October 1967

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960)

Charles Gates Sheldon (1889-1960), American pin-up artist and illustrator.

Charles Gates Sheldon, The Glorified American Girl, Calendar Illustation for Brown & Bigelow, 1930

Charles Gates Sheldon, Sailor Girl, 1928

Charles Gates Sheldon, title unknown

Charles Gates Sheldon, Masquerade Ball, 1920

Friday, June 23, 2017

Ren Wicks (1911-1997)

Ren Wicks (1911-1997), American artist who did movie posters, advertising posters, calendars, pin-ups, postage stamps and other assorted work but was best known for two subjects - women and aviation.

Ren Wicks, title unknown

Ren Wicks, Helen of Troy (1966)

Ren Wicks, title unknown

Friday, January 29, 2016

Henry Clive (1882-1960)

Henry Clive (1882-1960), Australian artist.

Henry Clive, Cleopatra of the Nile, 1929

Henry Clive, Delilah, 1948

Henry Clive, Gene Tierney as Lola Montez, 1946

Henry Clive, The White Dove

Henry Clive, title unknown

Henry Clive, A Buddha-pest

Henry Clive, Dorothy Lamour as Cleopatra

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Frederick Sands Brunner (1886-1954)

Frederick Sands Brunner (1886-1954), American artist.

Frederick Sands Brunner, Autumn Patterns

Frederick Sands Brunner, Nude At Stream

Frederick Sands Brunner, Reflection

Frederick Sands Brunner, Miss America

Frederick Sands Brunner, Pensive Nude

Frederick Sands Brunner, Title Unknown

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

David Wright (1912-1967) was one of the few British masters of the art of the pinup. He did comic strips for the Daily Mall as well as illustrations for magazines such as The Sketch and Men Only (the original version of Men Only before it became a Playboy clone).

David Wright, Cabaret Girl

David Wright, It sounds good to me (1942)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Rolf Armstrong

One of the most depressing things about the history of art over the past century or so has been the rejection of the idea of art as being about the cult of beauty.

So-called high art has become increasingly hostile to the idea of beauty. It is almost as if beauty disqualifies a picture from being real art.

As high art has retreated from the concept of beauty a gap has been left. The desire for visual beauty remains, and the gap has been increasingly filled by the kind of art that will never be regarded as acceptable by the highly politicised mandarins of the art establishment - by pin-up art, movies, glamour photography, girlie magazines, calendar art, commercial art in various manifestations.

One of the great masters of pin-up art of the 20th century was Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960).

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