Elegance In Black, American Sunday Cover Illustration
Elegance In Black, American Sunday Cover Illustration c1912 by American Painter Rolf Armstrong (1889 – 1960); Pinup Artist, Painter and Illustrator, and who is considered to be the godfather of the American Pin-up Art.
This is a late Art Nouveau period illustration of a young lady in an elegant black dress comprising large looping bows that create a floral like appearance.
She is looking into a small hand mirror with a decorative frame that is held close to her left shoulder so that we can see part of her face as we view the back of her head and bare shoulders.
The background is awash with different hues of blue and white with added touches of orange, pink and a little grey completing the piece.
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Maklumat Di Bawah Dari Wikipedia.org
Rolf Armstrong was born John Scott Armstrong in Bay City, Michigan pada April 21, 1889, kepada Richard dan Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. Ayahnya memiliki Syarikat Boy-Line Fire Boat, yang merangkumi barisan kapal penumpang. Beberapa dikerahkan di Chicago untuk digunakan di Pesta Dunia Chicago di sana di 1893.
Walau bagaimanapun, perniagaan dan keluarga ayah bergelut, dan rumah tumpangan keluarga hilang dari penyitaan. Dalam 1899, keluarga itu berpindah ke Detroit, Michigan. Ayah Rolf meninggal dunia di 1903, dan setahun kemudian dia dan ibunya berpindah ke Seattle, Washington, mengikuti jejak kakak sulungnya, William, yang telah berpindah ke sana setahun sebelumnya. Kini minat seni Rolf muncul lebih daripada sekadar kesenangan sambilan.
Dia berpindah ke Chicago di 1908, di mana dia kemudian belajar di Institut Seni. Dia kemudian pergi ke New York, di mana dia belajar dengan Robert Henri. Selepas lawatan ke Paris di 1919 untuk belajar di Académie Julian, dia kembali ke New York dan mendirikan sebuah studio. Dalam 1921 dia pergi ke Minneapolis untuk belajar pengeluaran kalendar di Brown & Bigelow.
Pada tahun 1920-an dan 1930-an, karyanya muncul di banyak kepingan muzik lembaran, dan juga di sampul banyak majalah, paling terkenal untuk majalah peminat filem seperti Photoplay dan Screenland. Kerjanya kebanyakannya terdiri daripada wanita; Mary Pickford, bayi daniels, dan Greta Garbo hanyalah sebilangan kecil daripada banyak lukisan yang dilukisnya.
Armstrong’s work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926. Setahun kemudian, dia adalah artis kalendar terlaris di Brown & Bigelow. Dalam 1930, RCA mengupahnya untuk melukis pin-up untuk mengiklankan produk mereka, dan dalam 1933 Thomas D. Syarikat Kalendar Murphy menandatanganinya untuk menghasilkan satu siri lukisan untuk barisan mereka.
In March 1940, Jewel Flowers, a girl from Lumberton, North Carolina, sent a picture of herself to Armstrong in response to an advert he had placed in the New York Times. Armstrong, 50 at the time, had been based at the Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street in Manhattan since 1939, and was looking for new models.
He invited Flowers for an interview. On March 25, 1940, Flowers started modeling for Armstrong. Their professional collaboration and friendship lasted for two decades. Lukisan pertama, bertajuk “Bagaimana keadaan saya?”, dilaporkan kerana Bunga, tidak digunakan untuk pemodelan, berulang kali bertanya kepada Armstrong “Bagaimana keadaan saya?” semasa sesi pemodelan, pertama kali diterbitkan setelah Perang Dunia II bermula.
Ia adalah Brown & Kalendar terlaris Bigelow untuk 1942 pada masa syarikat itu menjual berjuta-juta kalendar di Amerika, dan ia menjadi salah satu gambar Armstrong yang paling banyak dihasilkan semula. Bunga terkenal dengan anggota tentera Amerika semasa Perang Dunia II, ada di antaranya yang mengirim suratnya untuk mengusulkan perkahwinan. Armstrong’s calendars and silhouettes of Flowers were copied onto bombers and other planes as nose art and painted on tank turrets.
She became so well known during the war, although more as a famous face than by name, that a serviceman’s letter addressed simply as “Jewel Flowers, New York City” was delivered correctly. For many American servicemen abroad, she represented the “Why We Fight” spirit. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s government enlisted her to help promote war bonds.
The January 1, 1945 edition of TIME magazine included Armstrong’s “Toast of the Town” painting of Flowers in an article about Calendar Art. The article noted that calendars with “girl paintings” were “bought heavily by foundries, machine shops, auto-supply dealers.”
Flowers married in 1946. She and her husband lived in several places while he tried a number of business ventures, including Laguna Beach, California, Greenville, South Carolina, Reno, Nevada, where she reportedly worked in as a card dealer for a time, and New York City. According to Michael Wooldridge, coauthor of Pin up Dreams: The Glamour Art of Rolf Armstrong, Armstrong called her a number of times during the period she was following her husband from place to place, to try to persuade her to return to New York and model for him.
Her modeling career ended with Armstrong’s death in 1960. He left a large proportion of his personal wealth to Flowers. In total, Armstrong created around fifty to sixty works using Flowers as the model.
Rolf Armstrong meninggal dunia 1960 di pulau Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best “pin-up” artis pada separuh pertama abad kedua puluh.
