Alberto Vargas is best known for his series of pinup art in Playboy from the 1950's to the late 1970's. Prior to that, however, his works graced the pages of Esquire magazine in the 1940's and served the members of "The Greatest Generation" as inspiration through World War II. An entire genre of wartime painting, nose art, drew much of it's impetus from the Vargas girls and other artists whose whimsical lasses from the pages of men's magazines were devoured by the soldiers and airmen overseas. They interpreted these flirty fillies in their own styles and painted them onto the noses of Flying Fortresses and P-38's and other wartime aircraft across both the European and Asian theaters, often naming them after "the girl they left behind".
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Vargas' Pinup Girls (NSFW)
Alberto Vargas is best known for his series of pinup art in Playboy from the 1950's to the late 1970's. Prior to that, however, his works graced the pages of Esquire magazine in the 1940's and served the members of "The Greatest Generation" as inspiration through World War II. An entire genre of wartime painting, nose art, drew much of it's impetus from the Vargas girls and other artists whose whimsical lasses from the pages of men's magazines were devoured by the soldiers and airmen overseas. They interpreted these flirty fillies in their own styles and painted them onto the noses of Flying Fortresses and P-38's and other wartime aircraft across both the European and Asian theaters, often naming them after "the girl they left behind".
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