Chocolate Delights
Chocolate Delights by American Painter Peter Driben (1903 – 1968); maler, illustratør og en af de mest produktive pin-up kunstnere i 1940'erne og 1950'erne.
Chocolate Delights is a pin-up girl fashion portrait of a beautiful redhead with greenish white flowers in her hair, wearing an aqua green satin dress and open toes red shoes.
She is laying back, resting her head on a round green leather cushion, eating her chocolate delights from a round red open box of chocolates; wearing a smile of pure delight.
Chocolate Delights is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
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Peter Driben blev født i Boston, og han studerede på Vesper George Art School, inden han flyttede til Paris i 1925. Mens han tog klasser på Sorbonne i 1925, han begyndte en række meget populære pen-og-blæktegninger af byens showgirls.
I marts af 1934 Driben created his first known pin-up which was the cover to La Paree Stories; og af 1935, he was producing covers for Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, French Night Life and Caprice.
As Driben’s popularity continued to rise in the late thirties he created more covers for other periodicals including Silk Stocking Stories, Movie Merry-Go-Round and Real Screen Fun.
Driben’s career expanded into advertising when he moved to New York in late 1936. Here he created original three-dimensional die-cut window displays for Philco Radios, Cannon Bath Towels, and the Weber Baking Company.
Perhaps his most famous work being the original posters and publicity artwork for The Maltese Falcon. Peter Driben was also a close friend of publisher Robert Harrison, og i 1941 he was contracted to produce covers for Harrison’s new magazine Beauty Parade.
From there Peter went on to paint hundreds of covers for that publication and for the other seven titles Harrison was to launch – Flirt, Whisper, Titter, Wink, Eyeful, Giggles, and Joker.
Driben would often have as many as six or seven of his covers being published every month. Driben’s work for Harrison established him as one of America’s most recognized and successful pin-up and glamour artists. Just before he began to work for Harrison, Driben married the artist, actress and poet, Louise Kirby.
I 1944 he was offered the unusual opportunity, for a pin-up artist; that was to become the art director of the New York Sun, a post he retained until 1946. During the war, hans populære maleri af amerikanske soldater, der hejede flaget ved Iwo Jima, udløste en betydelig mængde medieopmærksomhed.
I 1956, Driben og Louise flyttede til Miami Beach, hvor han tilbragte sine pensionistår med at male portrætter (herunder en af Dwight D. Eisenhower) og andre kunstværker, som blev organiseret i vellykkede udstillinger af hans kone. Driben døde i 1968, Louise ind 1984.