Steaming Hot
Steaming Hot by American Painter Peter Driben (1903 – 1968); maler, illustratør og en av de mest produktive pin-up artistene på 1940- og 1950-tallet.
An attractive young blonde pinup girl is all steamed up with her arms folded across her body and a hard stare at the viewer, that tells us she bothered about something.
She is sitting on an old fashion cast iron steam radiator that is painted in silver; wearing a green scarf wrapped around her hair, with matching green earrings, a very short deep wide-v red dress, white embroidered panty, brown stockings and black leather opened toed high heel shoes with a strap.
The scene is set against beautiful blue hues that transition from aqua green on the ground to deep cobalt blue behind her in a wave pattern, suggesting heat rising.
Dette er en remastret digital kunst-gamle mesterreproduksjon av et offentlig domenebilde som er tilgjengelig som en lerretstrykk på nett.
Info nedenfor fra Wikipedia.org
Peter Driben ble født i Boston, og han studerte ved Vesper George Art School før han flyttet til Paris i 1925. Mens du tok kurs på Sorbonne i 1925, he began a series of highly popular pen-and-ink drawings of the city’s showgirls.
In March of 1934 Driben created his first known pin-up which was the cover to La Paree Stories; og av 1935, he was producing covers for Snappy, Pep, New York Nights, French Night Life and Caprice.
As Driben’s popularity continued to rise in the late thirties he created more covers for other periodicals including Silk Stocking Stories, Movie Merry-Go-Round and Real Screen Fun.
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, his popular painting of American soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima sparked a considerable amount of media attention.
I 1956, Driben and Louise moved to Miami Beach, where he spent his retirement years painting portraits (including one of Dwight D. Eisenhower) and other fine-art works, som ble organisert til vellykkede utstillinger av hans kone. Driben døde i 1968, Louise inn 1984.