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Gil Elvgren

(March 15, 1914 – February 29, 1980)

Elvgren was one of the most important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. In addition, he was a classical American illustrator. He was a master of portraying the all-American ideal feminine, but he wasn't limited to the calendar pin-up industry.

		Alberto Vargas (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982)
		His work was typically a combination of watercolor and airbrush. His mastery of the airbrush is acknowledged by the fact that the highest achievement in the community of airbrush artistry is the Vargas Award, awarded annually by Airbrush Action Magazine. Despite always using figure models, his images would often portray elegantly dressed, semi-nude to nude women of idealized proportions. Vargas' artistic trait would be slender fingers and toes, with nails often painted red.

		George Petty (27 April 1894 – 21 July 1975)
		His pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publication's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and RidGid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfolds spreads. Reproductions of his work were widely rendered by military artists as noseart decorating warplanes during the Second World War, including the Mephis Belle, known as “Petty Girls”.