Golden Girl
Golden Girl by American Illustrator Roy Best (1892 – ?); and painter known for his pinup art creations.
A beautiful golden hair glamorous beauty with diamond earrings is sitting on the floor in a back wrap around off shoulder yellow, lime, silver evening dress.
The dress forms a disk that encircles her delicate form meeting at her feet, that are fitted with green open toe ribbon topped high heel shoes.
The background transitions from blue at the bottom, to black, then to green at the center top; which accents the exquisite lighting that produce warm candle light skin tones, that are strongest on her face and chest, lightly on her legs and cool on her feet.
This is a masterful and elegant sophisticated pinup girl illustration that is akin to works done by Rolf Armstrong, Edward Runci, Art Frahm, and Gil Elvgren; that raised the pinup from amusing fun loving young lady in a bikini or short dress.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for sale as a rolled canvas art print.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Roy was a student of the Art Institute of Cincinnati, and then he later attended the Art Institute of Chicago; and at the beginning of his career he was represented by American artist in New York City in the 1920s.
During his time in New York he painted several covers for The Saturday Evening Post which was established in 1897 and is still published as of this writing.
Then in 1931, Roy was creating pinup girl calendar art for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company; and later in that same year he was commissioned by the Whitman Publishing Company to illustrate The Peter Pan Picture Book, based on J. M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan.
This led to him illustrating many other children’s books, including “Little Friends from Many Lands” by Mary Windsor (Whitman Publishing Company, 1935).
In 1942 the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned Roy to paint a post office mural, called Arrival of Packet, in his hometown of Waverly, Ohio.
In that same year he was hired by Brown and Bigelow the famous publishing company, which lead him into a career producing calendar pin-ups.
In his career he would also paint a number of well known actresses, such as Grace Kelly; and in his later years he became known for his corporate commissioned oil portraits and watercolor landscapes of Cape Cod.
