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Bowling

      This original pin-up calendar painting by Art Frahm appeared in 1952 under the title Spare? and nows lives in pop culture infamy as one of the artist’s “Embarrassment Series” images. In this oil on canvas painting a startled pretty but hapless young blonde bowls a frame and loses her undergarments much to […]

Spare?

Artist: Art Frahm

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1950s, Art Frahm, Bowling, Calendar, Charles Martignette, cheesecake, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 1, 2019

A patriotic red, white and blue in color 1940s WWII era original pin-up painting by the prolific calendar artist Walt Otto. A darling depiction of a curvy brunette pin-up girl bowling, in sexy Victory Girl attire. Otto made a career of creating the active type pin-up, his paintings appeared twice as covers for the Saturday […]

A Victory Roll

Artist: Walt Otto

Filed Under: Pin-Up & Glamour Art, Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: Bowling, patriotic, The Golden Gallery, victory girl, World War II
Added to Gallery: November 21, 2013

 

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