Pink Shoes
Pink Shoes by American Illustrator Earl Steffa Moran (1893 – 1984); a pinup girl illustrator and glamour artist.
A beautiful redhead in a reclining pose, with her head on raised yellow pillow is relaxing on a platform wearing a red robe and light blue panties.
She has her right leg bent forward with the tip of her foot that is in a pink high heel shoe is on the ground, while she has her left leg stretched skyward as she adjust her brown sheer stocking and admires her brand new pink high heel shoe.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as a canvas print.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Earl first studied art with elderly German painter John Stich, who was also a mentor to the renowned illustrator William Henry Dethlef Koerner (1878 – 1938).
He also studied at the Chicago Art Institute, under Walter Bigg; and later at the famed Art Students League in Manhattan in New York City under the instruction of muralists Frank Vincent DuMond (1865 – 1951), Robert Henri (1865 – 1929), Thomas Fogarty (1873 – 1938), who was also the teacher of Norman Rockwell and the legendary anatomist George Bridgman (1864 – 1943).
Earls pinup girl illustration career became established back in 1931, when he moved back to Chicago and opened a small studio, specializing in photography and illustrations. He sent some of his paintings of bikini dressed young ladies to the calendar publishing companies Brown and Bigelow and Thomas D. Murphy Company who purchased the illustrations.
In 1932 Earl signed an exclusive contract with Brown and Bigelow to produce pinups for its calendars, and by 1937 his pin-up girl illustrations hod sold millions of calendars for the company.
As Moran’s work became more and more popular he became a national celebrity and created paintings of famous celebrities, such as Betty Grable; and in 1946 when he moved to Hollywood he interviewed a young starlet named Norma Jeane Dougherty, who later modeled for hin over the next four years.
By 1955 after a move to Las Vegas, Earl transitioned his career from painting pim ups; and devoted his time to fine art painting, with nudes being his favorite theme; and signed with Aaron Brothers Galleries creating artwork for collectors until 1982, when his eyesight failed.
