Pin-Ups by Earl MacPherson - Artist's Sketch Pad

  

Earl MacPherson joined the staff of Brown and Bigelow the calendar publishers in 1942 and then went on to create his signature Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar in 1943. The drawings featured a main image and smaller sketches of the same model, showing the work that went into creating the main image including preliminary sketches and alternate views.  More biographical information at The Pinup Files.

A photo of Earl MacPherson and a model from Buestenschnitzer blog.

 

Link to past auction results at Artnet France, original drawing for the above Artist's Sketch Pad from Artnet.

 1943 Earl MacPherson Artist Sketch Pad Calendar from Dortch Military Sales.

Link to additional images at Pinup Mania.

In 1952 he created a similar calendar for  Shaw-Barton titled Studio Secrets the Earl MacPherson Sketchbook for 1952. This one sold on the website Hake's Americana and Collectibles.

He was an accomplished photographer who often worked from his photographs of models. and example is shown at The Art of The Pin Up.



 

Earl MacPherson: The Sketchbook Pin-Ups (Vignettes)

How to Draw & Paint Pin-ups & Glamour Girls: Step-by-step art instruction with a vintage touch (Walter Foster Collectibles)

Pin-Up Art: How to Draw and Paint Beautiful Girls (Walter T. Foster "How to Draw Books", 50).

Memoirs of Earl MacPherson the King of Pin-Up Art

Earl MacPherson - July Life Studies - "Not all pin-up artists have to go to art school."

Individual prints are for sale on Ebay Click here to see them for sale on Ebay.



Earl MacPhersin: The Sketchbook Pin-Ups


 

Pin-Up Nudes (Artist Archives) (Artist Archives)
Pin-Up Nudes II (Artist Archives)

Irene Patten Pinups

Irene Patten was an illustrator working around the mid century. She worked in a variety of genres including pictures of children, glamour girls and pin-ups. She is another of the few women working in the field like Zoe Mozert and Cecile Hardy who wrote a how to book.







Girl with bunny.

Artnet past auction results.

AskArt discussion of her work.

Click here to see prints for sale on Ebay.




















The Great American Pin-Up


1000 Pin-Up Girls (25th Anniversary Special Edition)


Deco Trade Card - Depicting a member of the cast of Ziegfeld's Rio Rita

Ted Withers - Hollywood Pin-up Girls

Pin-up Artist Ted Withers had an interesting way of including a bunch of preliminary sketches in many of his Artist's Sketch Pad pin-up girl calender pages.










Ted Withers was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He studied at Wellington College, then at the Royal Academy in London and later at the South Kensington School of Art and the Slade School of Art. Withers moved to Paris and the prestigious Académie Julian. (See Jessie Pixley Lacey - Teacher of Figure Drawing for another student of the Académie Julian)






He came to America and Hollywood in 1924. He worked as an art director at MGM Studios, supervisor in the trick and miniature department at Universal Studios, art director for Earnshaw-Young Advertising Agency, and art director for the Sterling Press Lithograph Company.




He started painting pin-ups in 1950. For more of his biography see The Pin-Up Files. For more of his art work see The History of Pin-up Art at all-art.org. Still more art work at Pin-up Classic Ted Withers.

Ted Withers' pin-ups at Ebay.com.


1000 Pin-Up Girls (25th Anniversary Special Edition)



The Great American Pin-Up



Another Gallery of pin-ups The Great American Pin-up.com.






Ted Withers first painted the images for The Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar in 1954, he continued doing it until 1961. Birography of Ted Withers at The Pin Up Files.

Artist's Sketch Pad calendar for 1956 [Pin-up calendar] at Amazon.com