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Bunny Yeager as Model and Photographer Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin up self-portrait in 1963. The artist and model showcases her draw on both sides of the camera by posing on Miami Beach in Florida in a pair of curve-hugging hot pants and a fuzzy bandeau […]

Bunny with Feathers – Miami Beach, FL

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1960s, beach, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography, self portrait
Added to Gallery: May 16, 2020

Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this pin-up self-portrait in 1953.

Bunny Yeager Self-Portrait in Seminole Indian Patterned Bikini

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art
Tagged With: 1950s, beach, bikini, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, Miami, pin up, pin up photography, self portrait
Added to Gallery: February 28, 2019

  Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page on the shores of Key Biscayne, Florida during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both women’s careers. This gelatin silver print is 4 of an edition of 10, signed by the artist on the verso. […]

Bettie Page in Leopard Bikini

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, beach, Bettie Page, bikini, black & white photography, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: February 18, 2019

    Bunny Yeager, the pre-eminent female pin-up photographer of the 20th century took this photograph of Bettie Page on the shores of Key Biscayne during the year-long partnership which changed the course of both women’s careers. The large format 15″ x 15″ silver gelatin print was custom hand printed and colored by hand by […]

Bettie Page Clutching Her Hair at Key Biscayne

Artist: Bunny Yeager

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, bathing beauty, beach, Bettie Page, bikini, Bunny Yeager, fine art photography, florida, Glamour Photography, pin up, pin up photography
Added to Gallery: February 2, 2019

This delicately rendered original signed Pearl Frush watercolor pin-up illustration titled “Miss Gulf Coast”, was created for the 1947 Aqua Tour Series of bathing beauty images for the Shaw-Barton Calendar Company of Coshocton, Ohio. Pearl Frush was a prolific and talented female artist that was active during the 1940s and 50s and worked primarily out of Chicago. Painting is silk-matted and framed behind glass in a gorgeous wide profile museum quality gallery frame, signed lower right and verso is notated with usage publication text.

Miss Gulf Coast

Artist: Pearl Frush

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, bathing beauty, beach, bikini, original calendar art, Pearl Frush, pin up, Shaw-Barton Calendar Company
Added to Gallery: February 9, 2013

This cheeky and colorful original gouache cover illustration painting by the well listed Wisconsin artist Lester Bentley graced the cover of Rogue For Men Magazine, August 1956. Both Lloyd Rognan and Lester Bentley were encouraged as cover artists for Rogue to have fun with their mascot–a caddish, happy go lucky, wolf of distinction. This cover features the Rogue Wolf seaside preparing a beverage in a streamlined art deco cocktail shaker for his bathing beauty companion; bottoms up indeed! Nicely framed and matted behind glass and ready to hang.

“Bottoms Up” Abroad

Artist: Lester Bentley

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, american, bathing beauty, beach, Lester Bentley, magazine cover, original cover art, pin up, Rogue For Men
Added to Gallery: July 4, 2012

An original Gil Elvgren pin-up oil painting created in 1952 for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul Minnesota. This curvy pin-up beauty appeared under the title “Hard To Suit,” a pun the copy department liked so much they used it again in 1954 to describe an Elvgren girl disrobing from her duck hunting garb to reveal lingerie. This is the prototypical Elvgren girl in a comically harrowing and skin revealing pin-up entanglement with the artist’s classic pursed lip expression that evokes surprise, embarrassment and provocation.

Hard To Suit (Who Me?)

Artist: Gil Elvgren

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, bathing beauty, beach, Brown & Bigelow, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, Gil Elvgren, Great American Pin-up, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: July 27, 2011

A dramatic and artfully posed gelatin silver original photograph by Edward Bower Hesser taken along the secluded shores of the California Coast. A pretty model in a dancers pose which brings to mind the nude imagery of Edward Weston another noted nude Pictoralist who worked in Southern California during the 1920s – 30s art deco jazz-age. From an Allied Artist’s Photographers Guild east coast estate. An original graflex photograph taken by Hesser for use in his “Art’s Monthly Pictorial” photography magazine for artists and art students.

A Seaside Nude Study

Artist: Edwin Bower Hesser

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, beach, Edwin Bower Hesser, gelatin silver photograph, nude, study
Added to Gallery: July 20, 2010

 

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