Pinup Art

[fragilefranky]

Auction images of Vargas girls. Enjoy.

[The Unknown Libertarian]

The pin-up art of Bruce Timm...

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[zeus64]

[womwam]

From an online auction featuring renditions by famous artists such as Elvgren, Vargas, Petty, et al:




Striking how the artists enhance the natural beauty of the stars, making most a bit more sexy. This one seems to be a mashup of Jayne Mansfield and Irish McCalla:

[dazzascan]

Coca-Cola Girls wallpaper...

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the estimable Sam Spade has posted tremendous collection of Hilda, the plus size buxom redhead created by artist Duane Bryers starting in the 1950s.

Its on another thread, but these will be of particular interest to pinup fans

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2509
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2510
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...postcount=2511

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This thread has been around forever, and some great posts from more than a decade ago amazingly still work. Saturday posted some Al Buell way back in 2009
http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/sho...2&postcount=83

Here's some more -- some will be duplicates, but given the age of the earlier posts, its not a terrible thing to have something an up to date hoster, and these are nice clean scans.



Nice work, classic pinup style

[dazzascan]

Vargas for Victory...

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Originally Posted by dazzascan

Vargas for Victory...

You might enjoy . . . Vargas is sufficiently popular that he gets his own thread (though there's plenty here too):

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t14...rotic-art.html

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Sounds like Moran had a good life

Earl Steffa Moran (December 8, 1893 – January 17, 1984), born in Belle Plaine, Iowa, was a 20th-century pin-up and glamour artist.[1] Moran's first instruction in art came under the direction of John Stich, an elderly German artist who also taught the great illustrator W.H.D. Koerner. Moran also studied with Walter Biggs at the Chicago Art Institute.

Moran later studied at the famed Art Students League in Manhattan, where he took instruction from the muralists Vincent Drumond, Robert Henri, Thomas Fogarty (Norman Rockwell's teacher), and the legendary anatomist George Bridgman. After moving back to Chicago in 1931 and opening a small studio where he specialized in photography and illustration, he sent some paintings of bikini-clad girls to two calendar companies; when both Brown and Bigelow and Thomas D. Murphy Company bought the work, his career was officially launched.

Moran signed an exclusive contract with Brown and Bigelow in 1932 and by 1937, his pinups had sold millions of calendars for the company. In 1940, Life ran a feature article entitled "Speaking of Pictures" which mostly focused on Moran's work and made him a national celebrity. In 1941, Moran helped the magazine publisher, Robert Harrison, to launch a new men's magazine called Beauty Parade, and he later contributed pin-ups to other Harrison magazines such as Flirt, Wink and Giggles.

In 1946, Moran moved to Hollywood though he had already painted many movie stars including Betty Grable, for publicity posters. Soon after his arrival, he interviewed a young starlet named Norma Jeane Dougherty who wanted to model for him. For the next four years, Marilyn Monroe posed for Moran and the two became friends. She always credited him with making her legs look better than they were as she felt they were too thin. Moran's work during this time period is now his most valuable; a Moran Marilyn pastel sold for $83,650, nearly doubling the previous record for one of his works, when the Craig MacMillan collection was sold at Heritage Auctions in February 2011.[2]

Moran lived in the San Fernando Valley from 1951 to 1955, hosting fabulous parties, directing and starring in short television films, painting portraits of Earl Carroll's Vanities Girls, and maintaining his position as a star of the pin-up world.

After a move to Las Vegas (circa 1955), Moran decided to devote his time to painting fine-art subjects, with nudes as his favorite theme. Signing with Aaron Brothers Galleries, he painted for collectors until 1982, when his eyesight failed. Some of his earlier works for Harrison were signed "Steffa" or "Black Smith". Moran died in Santa Monica, CA, on January 17, 1984.

Some of these posts will be duplicates, but they're all good quality images