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Eugene Mumaw original gouache pin-up illustration, c. late 1950′s / early 1960′s

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Gil Elvgren “In For A Tanning” c. late 1930′s

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Out On A Limb by Gil Elvgren, c. late 1930’s / early 1940’s calendar art for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company, St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Original 1960’s gouache pin-up illustration by Eugene Mumaw.

A lifelong resident of Muncie, Indiana, Mumaw (1930 - 2006) produced theatre posters for over thirty years, often in an eclectic mixed media, three dimensional style, as well as working in cartoons and pin-up illustrations. Mumaw’s pin-up girls are highly stylized, beautifully rendered and capture the whimsical turn that graphic design and illustration took in the 1960’s, with audacious curves and incredibly bold lines. His cartoonist approach and over-the-top lusciousness of the images are reminiscent of the interiors of Playboy and the era’s girlie magazines, with a signature playful style and sense of sexuality.

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Victorian cowgirl pin-up, c. 1900

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Child of the Sea by Mabel Rollins Harris, c. 1930’s. Calendar art for the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company.

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The New Style by Frank D’Amario, 1940’s

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1950’s pin-up bathing beauty

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No Privacy, Arnold Armitage, 1940’s

Oil on canvas. Calendar art for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company.

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Marilyn Monroe as Miss N.A.S. (Naval Air Station) San Diego. Photo by Bruno Bernard, 1952

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1950’s self portrait of American photographer and pin up model Bunny Yeager.

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1920’s photograph taken by American artist and illustrator Charles Sheldon of a badass flapper girl on an Indian motorcycle.

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