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ARMSTRONG, (1889-1960, American)
The Modern Father of the "Pin-Up". His first Girl Calendar was drawn in 1919, named "Dream Girl." In its studio in Manhattan it created originals with very large canvas working with live model and 3600 colors. His paintings, postcards, calendars and arcade, mutoscope cards are the most sought after today.
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ASTI, Angelo (1847-1903, France)
A French painter from a family of Italian origins. He was renown for the beautiful women's portraits he painted in a traditional Italian style on silk. He produced the first "pretty girl" calendar image in 1904 in the style of Art Nouveau. It was the beginning of the "Pin-Up" style calendars.
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ATTWELL, Mabel Lucy (1879-1964, English)
She is most well-known for illustrating for children, particularly her "Chubbies." These delightful, round-faced, dimple-cheeked, smiling babies and children idealized childhood pranks and good deeds. In 1910 Attwell produced illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and these have been her most successful work. She also illustrated Grimms Fairytales, Waterbabies, Puss in Boots and other fairy tales and children's books.
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BERTIGLIA, Aurelio (1891- Italian)
Known for very cute chubby children with huge round eyes and large heads on small foreshortened bodies. Also created several series of glamour ladies.
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BIANCHI, Alberto (1882-1969, Italy)
Created several series of postcards, including "donnine" genre, war propaganda, and anti-Austrian satirical subject matter.
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BOMPARD, Luigi (1879-1953, Italian)
Worked for magazines, L'Illustrazione italiana, and Illustration francaise in Bologna. Created illustrations for books including The Conquest of the South Pole, by E.H. Shackleton. Also created several series of postcards depicting female faces in floral frames, "donnine" genre, etc.
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BRUNDAGE, Frances ((1854–1937, American)
I know of no more proficient and prolific illustrator as Frances Brundage whose career spans 65 years and over 200 books. She was fond of painting greeting and holiday postcards. Her wide-eyed Victorian children epitomized fin-de-siecle Americana and graced all household goods, from flue-covers to calendars.
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BUSI, Adolfo (1891-1977, Italian)
Busi was particularly active in the fields of publicity graphics, book illustration, and posters. He designed several postcards in the Twenties of the "donnine" genre. |
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CHIOSTRI, Sofia (1898-1945, Italian) Sofia taught design in the Educandato of the Announced (Imperial Hill, Florence). She created wonderful postcards on a 1.1 scale, in the style of Art Deco. All of the postcards were produced in Italy and can be identified by the striking colors and her personal stylized view of life.
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CHRISTY, F. Earl (1883-1961, American) Commercial illustrator. Studied in Philadelphia. Illustrated cover girls for several prominent magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post. Known for his College Girls Series.
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CORBELLA, Tito (1885-1966, Italian)
Studied and worked in Venice. Famous for his images depicting women and engaged couples, (1912-1918) His wife was his inspiration for many of his portraits of women. Corbella created over 300 postcard designs. He also designed several sets of propaganda postcards during WWI,
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DAWSON, Lucy, (British)
"Mac" was the pseudonym for the artist Lucy Dawson, best known for her series of Dog Postcards, Sketches and books for publisher, Valentine's and Sons. She worked in pencil, pen, ink and oil, but was mainly known for her work in pastels. Her pastel portraits are simple, focusing upon the dog either seated or lying down. There is little clutter in the background which keeps the focus upon her canine subjects. Her Cat cards are much scarcer.
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DEGAS, Edgar (1834 - 1917, French)
Degas was a founding member of the Impressionist group and within it, the leader of the Realist tendency, with others such as Edouard Manet and Camille Pissarro. Unlike most of the other Impressionists members, Degas worked indoors from memory and with models. He had no interest in working from nature. Although Degas was labeled as a "painter of dancers", in actuality, he was an experimenter of color and light, using the atmosphere of the theatre in much the same way the Impressionists used the nature lighting of the outdoors. His great love of the Opera and ballet made it a perfect theme. Edgar spent his last years creating sculptures. |
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ENJORLAS, Delphin (1857 - 1945, French)
Early in his career, Delphin painted many wonderful landscapes, many of which now hang at the Musee Calvet d' Avignon. It soon became evident his love was for painting women. He changed genres to young ladies illuminated by lamplight or back lighting. His subjects are often engaged in simple domestic pursuits such as reading, sewing or flower arranging, although at times, he sought a more intimate portrayal. He became an exceptional painter of nude women. His mediums were oils and pastels. Enjorlas participated in the annual Salon shows beginning in 1890, and in 1901, he became President of the Salon des Artistes, Paris.
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FISHER, Harrison (1877-1934, American)
Worked in New York City on various magazines including Puck, Scribner's, Cosmopolitan Life, McClures, and the Saturday Evening Post. Known for creating the female figure known as the 'Fisher Girl'.
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FREES, Harry Whittier (1879-1953, American)
Frees began his career as an animal photographer and his pictures were used to decorate calendars at the beginning of the 20th century. Because of the popularity of his photos, the Rotograph Co. of New York signed him up for their animal studies series. Around 1905, he began to add small accessories to the animals. Ten years after that, he began to use outfits made by his mother that allowed the animals to be posed in a standing posture. Frees is famous for his photographs of dressed animals-most of them were owned by him or his neighbors. The most popular model was his own cat Rags. His photographs were used over several decades, from the early 1900's to 1960.
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GEAR, Mabel (English)
Most of Gear's output, which was quite considerable, was for Valentines. It included a large number of dogs and a few horses as well as many cats.
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GIBSON, Charles Dana (1867-1944, American) The Ideal Woman of the Early 1900s. The "Gibson Girl" is probably the best remembered of the artist's images. With her hair piled atop her head and a waist so tiny as to defy belief, the Gibson Girl represented a serene self-confidence that could surmount any problem
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GUTMANN, Bessie Pease (1876-1960, American) Perhaps best known for her heartwarming art prints featuring innocent children during the early part of the twentieth century. Gutmann’s heyday was in the 1920s and 1930s.
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ICART, Louis (1888-1950, French)
Painter and illustrator. Pseudonym comes from the French pronunciation of his initials 'L. I.' ('I' is pronounced 'ee').
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KIRCHNER, Raphael (1876-1917, Austrian)
Studied in Vienna. Moved to Paris circa 1900, then to U.S. circa 1914. Known for creating 'Kirchner Woman', which could be seen as one of the first pin-ups. This creation was inspired by Nina, his wife and model. The largest portion of his artwork was designs for picture postcards, totaling about 1000 different works. His work was very influential in art nouveau circles.
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LANDSEER, Sir Edwin (1802-1873, British)
Considered a London sporting dog artist, Landseer was commissioned frequently to paint Queen Victoria’s dogs.
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LE MAIR, Henriette Willebeek (1898-1966, Dutch)
Le Mair was the pre-eminent illustrator of her time although she only illustrated fourteen books in all. She was deeply impressed by the religious beliefs expressed in the region’s art, which led to a great interest in Eastern philosophy. Her delicate watercolor paintings show ideal children in beautiful surroundings with a painstaking attention to detail.
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MAUZAN, Luciano (1883-1952, French)
Studied in France, commercial artist, graphic designer, illustrator, engraver, painter, sculptor. then moved to Italy. Between 1917 and 1946, he designed more than 1000 original postcards.
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MEUIER, Henri (1873-1922, Belgian) Engraver, illustrator, painter. Son of Jean-Baptiste. A prolific art nouveau and art deco artist. Considered one of the very best of all Belgian poster artists.
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METLOKOVITZ, Leopoldo (1868-1944)
Poster designer, lithographer, painter.
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MOODY, Fanny (1861-1948)
A proflic artist of Dog Protraits. She used many different mediums in her work. Pastels and watercolors were favorites.
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MORAN, Earl (1893 - 1984, American) Started out with Rolf Armstrong and later went onto his own style. Both worked with mainly pastels but later moved onto oil. Moran went on to magazine illustration, for example Life, movie posters (Something for the Boys 1944) and even co-published an early "girlie" magazine, Beauty Parade, contributing covers, sometimes under his middle name non de plume, "Steffa". His most enduring pin-ups feature his famous late '40s model, Marilyn Monroe. Later he turned to oils, including this gowned glamour girl and, working from the late '50s until his death, an outstanding series of sensual nudes. Moran did not continually continue the same themes as did other Pin-Up artists. His pin-ups have more variety than any other major contributor to the field.
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MOSTYN, Marjorie (1893 - 1979, British) Painter, daughter of the artist Tom Mostyn, and married to the artist Leonard Fuller. Settled with her husband in St Ives, Cornwall, in 1938, where he opened the St Ives School of Painting, which he ran until his death in 1973, when she took it over. Mostyn is best known for her flower paintings, interiors and many portraits; which included those of her fellow artists Misomé Peile, Bryan Pearce and Shearer Armstrong,
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MOZERT, Zoe (1907-1993, American) which was the pen name for Alice Adelaide Moser, the first woman Pin-Up Artist. Often her own model, Mozert is noted for rejecting sexy-girl clichés in favour of depicting more realistic young women, with recognizably individual features and personalities. Her cover portraits of Hollywood starlets for such publications as Romantic Movie Stories and Screen Book were particularly popular. Also known as the Painted pictures and Calenders for "Brown and Biglow" Most famous for "Victory to Girls", in 1946. With famous pin-up artist Gil Elvgren, painted a series of "Cowboy Girls". She made her mark as a movie poster artist, notably for Carole Lombard's True Confession, and the notorious Jane Russell/Howard Hughes sex and sagebrush saga, The Outlaw.
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MUCHA, Alphonse Marie (1860-1939, Czechoslovakian)
Worked in Vienna until 1887, then in Paris. Founding member of the Vienna Secession. Became famous in 1894 as an art nouveau artist due to a poster 'Gismonda' he designed for Sarah Bernhardt. Perhaps his greatest achievement in this French period is the series of menus for the champagne producer Moët et Chandon. He made several visits and stays in the U.S. Returned to Czechoslovakia in 1912 and applied his talents to the Slavonic culture.
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NANNI, Giovanni (1888-1969, Italian)
Giovanni Nanni was an Italian painter and illustrator active in the mid 1915 period of Italian postcard designs. He is noted for his fashion postcards of beautiful women adorned in wonderful hats and splendid exotic fashions, all wrapped in an Art Deco style that was early for his day.
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O'NEILL, Rose Cecil (1874-1944, American)
The elf-like imps known as Kewpies, appearing in magazines and books and as dolls, caught the imagination of America’s youth in a way that only some one of such flamboyance and eccentricity could produce. She was the highest paid woman illustrator of her time. Her clients included Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, Oxydol, Edison Victrolas, and Jell-O.
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OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (1888-1960, Australian)
Described as being just as petite and dainty as her fairies, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite was the first Australian children’s book illustrator to achieve world fame. She loved to paint fairies that often played with the native kangaroos, koalas and kookaburras that populated her beloved bush land.
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SAGER, Xavier (1870-1930, Austria)
His wonderful drawings give us a peak at everyday life, and also at the night life of Gay Paris before WWI. Sager's work is spiked with social satire, and he takes aim at doctors, surgeons, priests, the Parisian night life's characters. He also takes a look at sports, fashion, ladies of the evening, and the seedier side of the night. His fluid and simple lines, along with a touch
He designed more than 3000 different cards. Most cards we're signed Xavier Sager, but he also signed a few as Leger, Salt Lake, etc.
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SCHMUCKER, Samuel L. (1879-1921, American)
Schmucker is recognized by most deltiologists as the best American postcard artist from the Golden Age of postcards. He is best known as the creator of the "Schmucker Girl" and the "Winsch Girl".
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SIMONETTI, Amedeo Momo (1874-1922, Italian)
Nephew of Ettore Simonetti, who encouraged him to become an artist. Simonetti studied at the Academy San Luca in Rome. He is most well-known as for his landscapes.
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SPERLICH, Sofie
Sperlich was extremely prolific She published for many companies. Some of which are: Theo Stroefer, Tucks, Nisters, London View Co. F.E.D., Misch & Co. Woolston Bros, Max Ettlinger & Co. There are also cards signed by A. Stone and Walde that appear to be by Sperlich, possibly using a pseudonym.
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TARRANT, Margaret Winifred (1899-1959, British)
Margaret Tarrant was a prolific English illustrator that created posters, greeting cards, calendars, postcards and books for fifty years. She was most popular during the 1920’s and 1930’s for her romantic depiction of children, fairies and animals. Tarrant’s work also became enormously popular for use on postcards, calendars, greeting cards and prints, many published by the Medici Society. Her best-known painting, "The Piper of Dreams" was reproduced and sold by the thousands.
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THIELE, Arthur (1841-1916)
Most famous for his ability to "humanize" animals. The most common examples of his work feature dogs and cats portraying human events. A typical scene of his would be an old-fashioned classroom with misbehaving students. Stroefer of Nuremberg (TSN), published most of Thiele's work with numbers from 700-2500. His early work dealt more with a single animal image, whereas later work dealt with more busy confused scenes of many animals. Thiele was a prolific artist, working into his 70s. His set numbered 1424 published by Theo Stroefer of Nurenberg, Germany, which depicts oversized cat heads, is a favorite among collectors.
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Studied in Paris, Active in New York. He was known for creating several series depicting the "glamour" genre and artist signed.
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VALTER, Florence and Eugene
Florence specialized in cats, dogs, and horses, and her cards were published by Valentine and Sons. Eugene also specialized in cats, dogs, and horses, but produced many cards for Inter Art, published in their Artistique Series.
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WAIN, Louis (1860-1939, English)
Wain created hundreds of illustrations featuring cats. He produced designs for over 600 postcards. His father died when Louis was 20, leaving him to be the sole supporter of his family. It is believed that he suffered from schizophrenia.
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WARDLE, Louis (1864-1949, English)
Wardle is best known for his paintings of pure-bred dogs, in particular Terriers, but throughout his life he painted a great variety of wild and domestic animals. He sudied live animals at the London Zoo and became an animal artist of considerable talent. He was equally proficient in oils, watercolor and pastel.
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