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.
Seo atáirgeadh sean-mháistrí ealaíne digiteach athshuite d’íomhá fearainn phoiblí atá ar fáil ar líne mar a priontáil chanbhás rollta.
This a Black and White version / Grey Scale of the retouched original public domain image.
Faisnéis Thíos Díorthaithe ó 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.
I 1935 Al would move to Chicago with his wife to begin working with the Stevens/Hall/Biondi Studio; agus ag 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 & atá ina seasamh i lár srutha ag sileadh le slat agus ríl ina lámh dheas a bhfuil crúca aici ar iasc atá sí ag tógáil amach as an uisce lena lámh chlé i líontán éisc, an chéad cheann i 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 ag aois 83, when he was forced to stop work due to injuries he suffered during an accident.
He passed away 3 blianta ina dhiaidh sin i 1996 in a nursing home where he had been cared for.