Christmas Pinup
Christmas Pinup by American Painter Bill Medcalf (1920 – 2005); pin-up girl illustrator as well as a portrait and landscape painter who’s career spanned the late 1940s to the late 1960s.
This is a beautiful Christmas Girl Pinup Illustration featuring a beautiful young blonde as Santa’s Helper that is sitting on the floor.
She dressed in a skimpy red and white outfit, that’s just an open red vest with white velour trimming, red shorts with white velour trimming, white high heel boots with red threaded trimming and tassels at the top, a red cap with a white fluffy puff on the top and finally a bell bracelet on her left wrist.
She is holding a large white greeting card with her left outstretched arm that is above and in front of wrapped gift boxes and a decorated Christmas tree branches.
In the background is a very large window that has star lit sky view, with the North Star shining bright over a lighted terrain and a lighted white billboard.
To fill in the empty white spaces in the image I added the illustration artwork, Pinup Girl by Alberto Vargas to the large greeting card, with my Fractal piece She Within The Machine for the background; and lastly I added the Classical art piece Winter Landscape with Skaters on a Frozen River by Frederik Marinus Kruseman to the billboard.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image.
Information below derived from Fineart.ha.com and Thepinupfiles.com
Though Bill did not have much formal training, he had a keen eye and a great since of style and form that would eventually make him one of the top pinup model artist of his generation.
Born in Minneapolis Minnesota in 1920, Bill received his artistic training from the educational institutions in the area near to where he lived.
At the age of 20 he was able to land a job with the United States Treasury Bureau of Engraving, where he remained until 1942, when he decided to enter the U.S. Navy; becoming a gunners mate.
After his military service Bill joined the staff of Brown & Bigelow in 1946 and in 1947 produced an elegant illustration of a beautiful young lady walking her dog on an estate for Kelly-Springfield Celebrity Tires.
He would also create similar advertising illustrations for other clients that also proved to be a successful hit with the public.
In 1949 Bill created his first Pin up for Brown & Bigelow and in 1951 was named as one of the top five pin-up artist at the firm.
Medcalf remained with Brown & Bigelow until 1967 win pin up illustrative art began to decline, due to the changing culture and the distribution of adult male magazines.
