Girl Gone Fishing
Girl Gone Fishing by American Artist Walt Otto (1895 – 1963); Painter, Illustrator, Advertising and Pinup Artist from 1935 – 1945.
This is a warm and enchanting country pin up girl genre painting of a beautiful young brunette sitting on a grass covered rocky ledge by a river bank with her feet in the water holding a bamboo fishing rod with both her hands, as she enjoys a day out fishing.
She is wearing a cross meshed braided yellow straw hat, a bright red plunging v-neck blouse and black denim short jeans.
By her left side is her trusty white with black patches pet dog, who is eyeing a frog that is sitting on a rock just off the bank; while the frog is eyeing the white can of bait worms that is resting to her right near her right knee.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a rolled canvas print.
Walt Otto was an American Pin-up Painter whos career spanned the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s; specializing in beautiful glamorous young ladies om rural theme settings.
Otto’s work was featured on calendars, on magazine covers, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Women’s Weekly as well as advertisements on billboards for major U.S brands such as Alka Seltzer, Anheuser-Bush, Kellloggs, Shell Oil, Schilitz Beer and many others.
Otto’s interest in art began when he was very young and his career got it start when he took an art correspondence course, which led to a brief stretch as a studio photographer, when he opened his own shop.
In 1916 Otto joined the Army Air Corps during World War I, and after the war, moved to Chicago; obtaining employment with the Edwards and Deutsch Lithography Company, and taking during the evenings at the Chicago Academy of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
When World War II broke out he enlisted in the United States Air Force and used his photography skills as an aerial photographer.
