Showgirl
Showgirl by American Artist Rolf Armstrong (1889 – 1960); Pinup Artisto, Pentristo kaj Ilustristo, kaj kiu estas konsiderita kiel la baptopatro de la amerika Pin-up Art.
This is flashy flowing form pinup girl illustration of an attractive brunette in a pink one piece bathing suit, with attached white and pink flowers attached to the straps of the suit, and a matching high heel pink lace up shoes that is a showgirl.
She is standing with her legs crossed, by, and leaning on a white table with blue accents along the perimeter with her right hand; she is also wearing a silver band on her right forearm with a bright yellow cloth wrapped around it.
She has her left hand behind her head and we can see more of the same yellow cloth with some feathers protruding from it; and then there is a large white cloth or drape off to her left side that is also on the table that blends into the background of various shades of abstract blue.
Showgirl is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as an acrylic, canvas and metala presaĵo interrete.
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Rolf Armstrong estis naskita John Scott Armstrong en Bay City, Miĉigano en aprilo 21, 1889, al Rikardo kaj Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. Lia patro posedis la Boy-Line Fire Boat Company, kiu inkludis vicon de pasaĝerŝipoj. Some were deployed in Chicago for use at the Chicago World’s Fair there in 1893.
Tamen, the father’s business and family were struggling, and the family homestead was lost to foreclosure. En 1899, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan. Rolf’s father died in 1903, and a year later he and his mother moved to Seattle, Washington, following the footsteps of his oldest brother, William, who had moved there a year earlier. By now Rolf’s artistic interests were emerging to more than a part-time pleasure.
He moved to Chicago in 1908, where he later studied at the Art Institute. He then went on to New York, where he studied with Robert Henri. After a trip to Paris in 1919 to study at the Académie Julian, he returned to New York and established a studio. En 1921 he went to Minneapolis to study calendar production at Brown & Bigelow.
Dum la 1920-aj kaj 1930-aj jaroj, lia laboro aperis sur multaj partituro, same kiel sur la kovriloj de multaj revuoj, plej fame por filmfanrevuoj kiel Photoplay kaj Screenland. Lia laboro plejparte konsistas el virinoj; Mary Pickford, beboj danieloj, kaj Greta Garbo estas nur kelkaj el la multnombraj kiujn li pentris.
Armstrong’s work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926. Unu jaron poste, li estis la plej bone vendata kalendarartisto ĉe Brown & Bigelow. En 1930, RCA dungis lin por pentri pin-ups por reklami iliajn produktojn, kaj en 1933 la Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company subskribis lin por produkti serion de pentraĵoj por ilia linio.
In March 1940, Jewel Flowers, a girl from Lumberton, North Carolina, sent a picture of herself to Armstrong in response to an advert he had placed in the New York Times. Armstrong, 50 at the time, had been based at the Hotel des Artistes on West 67th Street in Manhattan since 1939, and was looking for new models.
He invited Flowers for an interview. On March 25, 1940, Flowers started modeling for Armstrong. Their professional collaboration and friendship lasted for two decades. The first painting, titolita “How am I doing?”, reportedly because Flowers, unused to modeling, repeatedly asked Armstrong “How am I doing?” during the modeling session, was first published after World War II had started.
It was Brown & Bigelow’s best selling calendar for 1942 at a time when the company sold millions of calendars in America, and it became one of Armstrong’s most reproduced pictures. Flowers was popular with American servicemen during World War II, some of whom sent her letters proposing marriage. Armstrong’s calendars and silhouettes of Flowers were copied onto bombers and other planes as nose art and painted on tank turrets.
She became so well known during the war, although more as a famous face than by name, that a serviceman’s letter addressed simply as “Jewel Flowers, Novjorko” was delivered correctly. For many American servicemen abroad, she represented the “Why We Fight” spirit. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s government enlisted her to help promote war bonds.
The January 1, 1945 edition of TIME magazine included Armstrong’s “Toast of the Town” painting of Flowers in an article about Calendar Art. The article noted that calendars with “girl paintings” were “bought heavily by foundries, machine shops, auto-supply dealers.”
Flowers married in 1946. She and her husband lived in several places while he tried a number of business ventures, including Laguna Beach, California, Greenville, South Carolina, Reno, Nevada, where she reportedly worked in as a card dealer for a time, and New York City. According to Michael Wooldridge, coauthor of Pin up Dreams: The Glamour Art of Rolf Armstrong, Armstrong called her a number of times during the period she was following her husband from place to place, to try to persuade her to return to New York and model for him.
Her modeling career ended with Armstrong’s death in 1960. He left a large proportion of his personal wealth to Flowers. In total, Armstrong created around fifty to sixty works using Flowers as the model.
Rolf Armstrong mortis en 1960 sur la insulo Oahuo, Hawaii as one of the best “pin-up” artistoj de la unua duono de la dudeka jarcento.