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Esquire Calendar

Currency:USD Category:Western Americana Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Esquire Calendar
SOLD
100.00USD+ (23.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2015 Oct 21 @ 15:11UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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World War II pinup calendar by Alberto Vargas with verses by Phil Stack. Alberto Vargas (1896 - 1982) Vargas was painting in a store window in May 1919 when he was asked by a representative of the Ziegfeld Follies to show his work the next day to Mr Ziegfeld ... he was to become the most famous and prolific pin-up artist of all time. Within twenty-four hours, Vargas found himself commissioned to paint twelve water color portraits of the leading stars of the 1919 Ziegfeld Follies for the lobby of the New Amsterdam Theater. He soon developed a friendship with Ziegfeld, who let the young artist call him "Ziggy", a name used only by the impresario's closest friends. Born 9 February 1896 in Peru, Alberto Vargas was the son of a renowned photographer, Max Vargas, who had taught him how to use an airbrush by the time he was thirteen. In 1911, while accompanying Max on a trip to Paris, Alberto came upon the famous magazine La Vie Parisienne, and its sensuous front covers by Raphael Kirchner made a lasting impression on him. He studied in Zurich and Geneva before leaving Europe because of the war and arriving on Ellis Island in October 1916. Vargas' first encounter with America happened about noon at Broadway and Fourteenth Street, when he was suddenly surrounded by a lunchtime crowd of smartly dressed office workers. Mesmerized by their grace, sophistication, and beauty the young artist decided he would spend his life glorifying the American Girl. From the time Esquire first introduced America to the Varga Girl in 1940, the name Vargas has been synonymous with pin-up and pin-up art. Philip Stack (born John Philip Stack December 27, 1900 in St. Albans, Vermont, died March 4, 1948 in Manhattan, New York), also known under the alias of Don Wahn, was an American poet that was active during the 1930s and 40s. He is known for contributing sonnets to Walter Winchell's widely-syndicated Hearst Newspapers column and was also known as the quatrain-writer for Vargas drawings in Esquire magazine. In 1936 his poem "Admonition" (as Philip Stack) was published by Doubleday in "The Best Loved Poems of the American People" and the book received a re-printing in 2008. Calendar is in very good condition.















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Date: 1042
HWAC#: : 26268
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