Is This Scale Working
Is This Scale Working by American Painter Peter Driben (1903 – 1968); maler, illustratør og en af de mest produktive pin-up kunstnere i 1940'erne og 1950'erne.
The scale says what, is what this beautiful and alluring redhead pinup girl seems to be saying as she bends forward to read what the dial is displaying on the scale she is standing on.
She is outfitted with a white bikini with red polka dots and red ruffle trimming with a matching pair of red high heel shoes.
I’ve replaced the black background of the artwork with an abstract cuboid starburst that transitions from a colorful center that complements her bikini and shoes out to grayscale.
Dette er en remastered digital art old masters reproduktion af et offentligt domæne billede, der er tilgængeligt som en lærred print online.
Info nedenfor fra Wikipedia.org
Peter Driben blev født i Boston, og han studerede på Vesper George Art School, inden han flyttede til Paris i 1925. Mens han tog klasser på Sorbonne i 1925, han begyndte en række meget populære pen-og-blæktegninger af byens showgirls.
I marts af 1934 Driben skabte sin første kendte pin-up, som var forsiden til La Paree Stories; og af 1935, han producerede covers til Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, Fransk natteliv og Caprice.
Da Dribens popularitet fortsatte med at stige i slutningen af trediverne, skabte han flere forsider til andre tidsskrifter, herunder Silk Stocking Stories, Film Merry-Go-Round og ægte skærmsjov.
Driben’s career expanded into advertising when he moved to New York in late 1936. Here he created original three-dimensional die-cut window displays for Philco Radios, Cannon Bath Towels, and the Weber Baking Company.
Perhaps his most famous work being the original posters and publicity artwork for The Maltese Falcon. Peter Driben was also a close friend of publisher Robert Harrison, og i 1941 he was contracted to produce covers for Harrison’s new magazine Beauty Parade.
From there Peter went on to paint hundreds of covers for that publication and for the other seven titles Harrison was to launch – Flirt, Whisper, Titter, Wink, Eyeful, Giggles, and Joker.
Driben would often have as many as six or seven of his covers being published every month. Driben’s work for Harrison established him as one of America’s most recognized and successful pin-up and glamour artists. Just before he began to work for Harrison, Driben married the artist, actress and poet, Louise Kirby.
I 1944 he was offered the unusual opportunity, for a pin-up artist; that was to become the art director of the New York Sun, a post he retained until 1946. During the war, hans populære maleri af amerikanske soldater, der hejede flaget ved Iwo Jima, udløste en betydelig mængde medieopmærksomhed.
I 1956, Driben og Louise flyttede til Miami Beach, hvor han tilbragte sine pensionistår med at male portrætter (herunder en af Dwight D. Eisenhower) og andre kunstværker, som blev organiseret i vellykkede udstillinger af hans kone. Driben døde i 1968, Louise ind 1984.