Summertime Sweetheart
Summertime Sweetheart by American Painter Al Buell (1910 – 1996); paperback cover artist and advertising illustrator.
This is a beautiful glamour pinup girl portrait illustration of a beautiful young blonde lady at the beach.
She is wearing a one piece black bathing suit with yellow criss-cross straps on the sides and chest, star fish and clamshell earrings and sandals.
She is posing for the viewer on a white and red stripe pattern off gold colored beach towel with a hat and sunglasses just to the front of her; in a classic pinup pose with her right armed tucked underneath her breast and her left arm resting on the ground support leaning sitting position.
In the background of the scene we can see white waves crashing on the beach and two beach umbrellas by small mounds of sand, and a sail boat in the far distance.
This is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available online as a rolled canvas print.
This a Black and White version / Grey Scale of the retouched original public domain image.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
Al Buell was born Alfred Leslie Buell in Hiawatha, Kansas and grew up in Cushing, Oklahoma.
He briefly attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and during this time made a trip to New York City, which would put him on the path of becoming an illustrator and painter.
In 1935 Al would move to Chicago with his wife to begin working with the Stevens/Hall/Biondi Studio; and by 1940 he was able to open his own art studio where he created pinup girl art for the Gerlach-Barklow calendar company.
When World War II shook the world, Al like many able body Americans was drafted to fight, but was rejected by the draft board; so he instead started working for Brown & Bigelow creating a variety of popular and patriotic pin-up paintings.
When the war concluded, he began contributing art to the Esquire Magazine (1933 to the present) Gallery of Glamour; and would return to Brown & Bigelow in the late 1950s creating glamour and pinup art illustrations till about 1965 when he retired from being a commercial artist.
During this period Al created two calenders for Brown & Bigelow, the first in 1960 which was titled Al Buell’s Delectabelles and the second a year later in 1961 which was titled Al Buell’s Beauties.
Though retired Al still worked as an artist on a commission basis creating landscapes and portraits up into 1993 at the age of 83, when he was forced to stop work due to injuries he suffered during an accident.
He passed away 3 years later in 1996 in a nursing home where he had been cared for.
