Chocolate Delights
Chocolate Delights by American Painter Peter Driben (1903 – 1968); malarz, ilustrator i jeden z najbardziej płodnych artystów pin-up lat 40. i 50. XX wieku.
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 urodził się w Bostonie, i studiował w Vesper George Art School, zanim przeniósł się do Paryża 1925. Podczas zajęć na Sorbonie w 1925, rozpoczął serię bardzo popularnych rysunków piórem i tuszem przedstawiających miejskie tancerki.
W marcu 1934 Driben stworzył swój pierwszy znany pin-up, który był okładką La Paree Stories; i przez 1935, produkował okładki dla Snappy'ego, Energia, Noce Nowego Jorku, Francuskie życie nocne i Caprice.
Wraz ze wzrostem popularności Dribena pod koniec lat trzydziestych stworzył więcej okładek dla innych czasopism, w tym Silk Stocking Stories, Filmowa karuzela i prawdziwa zabawa na ekranie.
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, i w 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.
W 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, his popular painting of American soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima sparked a considerable amount of media attention.
W 1956, Driben and Louise moved to Miami Beach, where he spent his retirement years painting portraits (including one of Dwight D. Eisenhower) and other fine-art works, which were organized into successful exhibitions by his wife. Driben died in 1968, Louise in 1984.