The Artists and their work...

Men and women from art schools, and some self-taught, many gravitating toward Chicago and New York, employed by magazine's like Esquire, hired by corporate giants to produce advertising. Boosting morale during wartime, pushing the bar to limits the censors would never have allowed a flesh and blood person, pin-ups in all forms, became immensely popular at the advent of the moving picture, when images where seen and the people in those images idolised, lusted for- and immortalised in fan magazines. Who can't remember having somebody's picture on the wall as a kid? Or knowing someone who did. I'm only going to follow this to the 1950's because the art of the pin-up changes dramatically at that point. I think the goofy innocence of it is lost.

Each artist had his own style, and odd little idiosyncracies, like Vargas girls with their pointy fingernails. Though Vargas and Petty ruled the pin-up world- other artists' work is wonderfully varied and each seemed to have his niche. Brief biographys of each artist and examples of their artwork will follow.