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Earlier this year, the Society of Illustrators inducted American illustrator and pin-up artist George Petty into their Illustrator’s Hall of Fame. Since 1958, the Society of Illustrators has elected to its Hall of Fame artists recognized for their distinguished achievement in the art of illustration. Artists are elected by former presidents of the Society and […]

George Petty in the Illustrators Hall of Fame

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Tagged With: Esquire, George Petty, Petty Girl, pin up, Society of Illustrators
Added to Gallery: July 11, 2017

      A glamorous, art deco Petty Girl mixed media illustration from 1938 that appeared in the pages of Esquire Magazine with the quip “Thanks for the hospitality, Mr. Grover, but I don’t mind going home in the rain.“ In this sophisticated rendering, we see a sexy svelte blonde in a form fitting satin gown […]

Thanks for the Hospitality, Mr. Grover

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Esquire, George Petty, jazz age, original interior illustration, pin up, risque, streamline, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

An iconic and rare surviving pin-up painting by Ben-Hur Baz which was published as a calendar with the title Maid In Muskegon. The image shows a strawberry blonde hot number seductively posed in a strapless bikini ala Marilyn Monroe. This artist did several pin-ups very closely based on the notorious Hollywood blonde bombshell, but it is unlikely that […]

Maid In Muskegon

Artist: Ben-Hur Baz
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Tagged With: Ben-Hur Baz, Esquire, glamour, original calendar art, original illustration art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

    A deliriously fresh published Petty Girl mixed media pin-up illustration from 1937 that appeared in the pages of Esquire magazine with the quip “He doesn’t smoke and he doesn’t drink – I don’t know what I’ll do to amuse him”. A masterful rendering of a sexy modernist redhead who is clearly styled after Bette […]

He Doesn’t Smoke and He Doesn’t Drink

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Esquire, George Petty, original calendar art, Petty Girl, pin up, redhead, risque, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: January 20, 2016

An original George Petty – Petty Girl small presentation pin-up drawing which was given to the Michigan area artist Robert Bushewicz a friend and colleague of Petty’s. In this well rendered colored graphite rendering, Petty choose to recreate one of his most iconic Petty Girls, this image first appeared in the pages of Esquire magazine […]

Petty Girl Presentation Drawing

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: Esquire, George Petty, Hugh Hefner, Petty Girl, pin up, Playboy Bunny
Added to Gallery: April 18, 2015

      Seen gamely climbing into a larger than life pipe threader in ballet slippers and skimpy pink apron, this redheaded Petty girl is an unlikely yet alluring gearhead. A published mixed media pin-up illustration by George Petty which appeared as a calendar for Ridgid Tools in September of 1952, as part of his […]

Miss Ridgid Tools

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: 1950s, american, Esquire, George Petty, machine age, original calendar art, Petty Girl, pin up, redhead, ridgid tools, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 4, 2014

This 1937 dazzling and fresh (both in scene and technique) original mixed medium illustration painting by George Petty first appeared in Esquire Magazine as a full page color cartoon. It also was published as the first image of a spiral bound folio titled “Petty – A Portfolio from Esquire”. One of the crown jewels from the estate of Charles Martignette. The work is framed and matted behind glass and is a defining example of the lithe and modernist Art Deco Petty Girl.

No Particular Floor, Just Drive Up and Down

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Charles Martignette, Esquire, flapper, original interior illustration, Petty Girl, pin up, screwball, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: May 7, 2013

George Petty’s enormously successful career as an illustrator began in the mid-1920s painting magazine covers and images of beautiful girls for calendars. The creation that made him legendary debuted in the first issue of Esquire magazine in 1933. The “Petty Girl,” with her dreamy curves and witty banter, quickly became a popular symbol of the American male’s feminine ideal.Esquire produced two other calendars by Petty in 1955 and 1956. This painting appeared as the September Petty Girl in the 1956 Esquire calendar. Rendered in watercolor on board, nicely framed and ready to hang.

Petty Girl, September 1956

Artist: George Petty
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Tagged With: 1950s, american, art deco, Esquire, George Petty, lingerie, nude, original calendar art, Petty Girl, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: October 19, 2010

A smartly rendered pin-up girl gag watercolor cartoon for Esquire Magazine by noted African American cartoon artist and illustrator E. Simms Campbell. Gag features a Bedouin trader desert scene with a harem girl, tagline reads “Personally, I think the camel is a much smarter buy”. Work is ink stamped by Esquire Magazine on the verso and signed by the artist lower right.

The Camel is a Smarter Buy

Artist: E. Simms Campbell
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Tagged With: 1950s, american, cartoon, E. Simms Campbell, Esquire, Gag Cartoon, harem, orientalist, original interior illustration, pin up
Added to Gallery: November 18, 2008

 

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