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Mabel Rollins Harris was a very accomplished pastel artist who did pin-ups for Thomas D. Murphy Company during the 1920s, for the Gertach-Barklow Calendar Company and for Brown and Bigelow Calendar Company in the 1930s and mainstream illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post and the Rustcraft and Norcross greeting card companies. More biographical information is in The Great American Pin-Up.
More images by Mabel Rollins Harris at the American Gallery.
Pin-Up Nudes (Artist Archives) (Artist Archieves)
Pin Up The Art of Glamour (by Elvgren and other artists) 1997 Pin-up Girl Calendar
The Great American Pin-Up (Jumbo Series)
Dibujo y pinto Pin-up (Dibujo Y Pinto/ Drawing and Painting) (Spanish Edition)
How to Draw & Paint Pin-ups & Glamour Girls: Step-by-step art instruction from the vintage Walter Foster archives (Walter Foster Collectibles)
Joe Chiodo's How To Draw And Paint Pin-Ups
Anothe page about her work is at mutoworld.com.
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