True Magazine 1947 Pinup Calendar Art
True Magazine 1947 Pinup Calendar Art by American Painter George Brown Petty IV (1894 – 1975); Magazine Illustrator and Pinup Artist of the 1930s, 40s and 50s
This pinup girl illustration for the 1947 edition of True Magazine features a gorgeous golden haired blonde wearing a sheer tight fitting black negligee and white heel shoes; is laying on the floor with her back to the viewer; with her sexy long left leg fully stretched and her right leg that is folded is tucked under her left leg.
Her right hand is holding a white handset of a phone up to her right ear as her arm is bent toward her head as the line cord loops to the floor.
In her left hand she is holding a round mirror up to her face about 10 to 12 inches away from her head, as we can see her face being reflected in the viewers direction; with her eyes gazing at the viewer with her beautiful smile; as four large strips of paper are floating about her top and bottom.
Since the background of the image was dirty and dull, I decided to replace it with a textured cloud based background of a tan color that complemented the pin-ups hair color.
True Magazine 1947 Pinup Calendar Art is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase online as an acrylic, canvas, metal and wood art prints.
Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org
George Petty’s first came to public attention during his high school years, where he was the staff artist for the school newspaper.
While going to high school George enrolled for night classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Ruth VanSickle Ford.
While at the academy George taught his own drawing course, charging his classmates five dollars per session; as well as working in his father’s photography shop where he learned the skill of using an airbrush.
Later George went to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and others until 1916, when World War I broke out, which caused ambassador Myron T. Herrick, to order all Americans to leave Paris and return to the United States.
After returning to the United States, George worked as an airbrush retoucher at a local printing company in Chicago; later establishing himself as a freelance artist, painting calendar girls and magazine covers for The Household; and by 1926 he had opened his own studio.
George is especially known for the Petty Girl series of pin-up girl paintings he did for Esquire Publications, from the autumn of 1933 through 1956.
George frequently depicted his pin-up girls with relatively long legs, and relatively smaller heads than that of his actual models.
His work primarily appeared in Esquire and Fawcett Publications – True also known as True, The Man’s Magazine; but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and the Ridgid Tool Company of North Ridgeville Ohio, which was founded in 1923.
