Girl Gone Fishing
Girl Gone Fishing by American Artist Walt Otto (1895 – 1963); Skilder, Yllustrator, 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; wylst de kikkert it wite blikje aaswjirms sjocht dy't har rjochts by har rjochterknibbel leit.
Dit is in retoucheerde reproduksje fan âlde masters fan digitale keunst fan in ôfbylding yn it iepenbier domein dat online te keap is as in opgerold canvas print.
Walt Otto wie in Amerikaanske Pin-up-skilder waans karriêre oer de jierren 1920 rûn, 1930s en 1940s; spesjalisearre yn prachtige glamoureuze jonge dames om plattelân tema ynstellings.
It wurk fan Otto stie op kalinders, op tydskrift covers, lykas The Saturday Evening Post en Women's Weekly, lykas ek advertinsjes op reklamebuorden foar grutte Amerikaanske merken lykas Alka Seltzer, Anheuser-Bush, Kellloggs, Shell Oalje, Schilitz Beer en in protte oaren.
Otto syn belangstelling foar keunst begûn doe't hy wie hiel jong en syn karriêre begûn it doe't er folge in keunst korrespondinsje kursus, wat late ta in koart skoft as studiofotograaf, doe't er syn eigen winkel iepene.
Yn 1916 Otto kaam yn 'e Earste Wrâldoarloch by it Army Air Corps, 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.