Ebay Auction: Rare Vintage Rolf Armstrong Pin-Up pin up Litho "Miss Winbrooke" 14.75 x 11.75 DL
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Rare Vintage Rolf Armstrong Pin-Up Litho "Miss Winbrooke" Frame 14.75 x 11.75. Litho in very good Condition without folds or tears. Antique Frame has Some Chip Damage. See Pictures for Actual Condition.
From the Internet: Often referred to as "the father of the calendar girl," Rolf Armstrong's use of pastels and bold color choices to create lasting images of beautiful women has given him the reputation as one of the all-time great pin-up artists. Rolf Armstrong was born in Bay City, Michigan on April 21, 1889, to Richard and Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. His father owned the Boy-Line Fire Boat Company, which included a line of passenger ships. Some were deployed in Chicago for use at the Chicago World's Fair there in 1893. However, the father's business and family were struggling, and the family homestead was lost to foreclosure. In 1899, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Rolf's father died in 1903, and a year later he and his mother moved to Seattle, Washington, following the footsteps of his oldest brother, William, who had moved there a year earlier. By now Rolf's artistic interests were emerging to more than a part-time pleasure.
He moved to Chicago in 1908, where he later studied at the Art Institute. He then went on to New York, where he studied with Robert Henri.
After a trip to Paris in 1919 to study at the Académie Julian, he returned to New York and established a studio. In 1921 he went to Minneapolis to study calendar production at Brown & Bigelow.
During the 1920s and 1930s, his work appeared on many pieces of sheet music, as well as on the covers of many magazines, most famously for movie fan magazines such as Photoplay and Screenland. His work mostly consists of women; Mary Pickford, Bebe Daniels, and Greta Garbo are just a few of the numerous he painted.
Armstrong's work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926. A year later, he was the best-selling calendar artist at Brown & Bigelow. In 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and in 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.
Rolf Armstrong died in 1960 on the island of Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best "pin-up" artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
From the son of a small town tugboat captain to the Father of American Pin-Up Art, Rolf Armstrong led a full life and had a long and prolific career. Armstrong started his education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where his teachers increasingly recognized his work. The institute was a stepping-stone to Armstrong's successful career in commercial art.
Two of the first publications to take a chance on this new talent were Judge and Puck Magazine and Armstrong was an instant success. Eventually Rolf Armstrong's artwork were seen on several covers for the American and Metropolitan Magazine and he had a lengthy tenure doing cover art for College Humor Magazine. His portrait of a male sailor appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
In 1919, Armstrong aligned himself with Brown & Bigelow where he painted countless images for advertising calendar art. During these years along side Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell, Armstrong was this prestigious calendar company's star artist and an eager public awaited next months Armstrong Girl .
The character of the women that Armstrong portrayed contrasted that of other artists of the pin-up movement. Armstrong's subjects were strong, confident women. They had an innate femininity and subtle sexuality yet were very much a product of the ongoing American Industrial Revolution.
With the development of national advertising and the increasing distribution of magazines, commercial illustrators were in high demand and artists themselves were seen as celebrities. Motion picture film technology created screen stars and movie magazines such as the famed Photoplay sought out illustrators to create cover artwork donning these new faces. Rolf Armstrong's portraits included those of Norma Talmadge, Marion Davies, Bebe Daniels and Greta Garbo. During the same period, he did advertising art for products such as Nehi and Green River Soda, Old Gold Cigarettes and Hires Rootbeer. The artist insisted on using live models for his portrait paintings, as when Boris Karloff posed in character on the set of the film Frankenstein or with his good friend James Cagney on the set of Mr. Roberts.
Today, collectors cherish original examples of his artwork and bids often soar into the ten's of thousands of dollars when they turn up at auction.
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Rare Vintage Rolf Armstrong Pin-Up Litho "Miss Winbrooke" Frame 14.75 x 11.75. Litho in very good Condition without folds or tears. Antique Frame has Some Chip Damage. See Pictures for Actual Condition. pinup pin up
From the Internet: Often referred to as "the father of the calendar girl," Rolf Armstrong's use of pastels and bold color choices to create lasting images of beautiful women has given him the reputation as one of the all-time great pin-up artists. Rolf Armstrong was born in Bay City, Michigan on April 21, 1889, to Richard and Harriet (Scott) Armstrong. His father owned the Boy-Line Fire Boat Company, which included a line of passenger ships. Some were deployed in Chicago for use at the Chicago World's Fair there in 1893. However, the father's business and family were struggling, and the family homestead was lost to foreclosure. In 1899, the family moved to Detroit, Michigan.
Rolf's father died in 1903, and a year later he and his mother moved to Seattle, Washington, following the footsteps of his oldest brother, William, who had moved there a year earlier. By now Rolf's artistic interests were emerging to more than a part-time pleasure.
He moved to Chicago in 1908, where he later studied at the Art Institute. He then went on to New York, where he studied with Robert Henri.
After a trip to Paris in 1919 to study at the Académie Julian, he returned to New York and established a studio. In 1921 he went to Minneapolis to study calendar production at Brown & Bigelow.
During the 1920s and 1930s, his work appeared on many pieces of sheet music, as well as on the covers of many magazines, most famously for movie fan magazines such as Photoplay and Screenland. His work mostly consists of women; Mary Pickford, Bebe Daniels, and Greta Garbo are just a few of the numerous he painted.
Armstrong's work for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving a circulation of more than two million by 1926. A year later, he was the best-selling calendar artist at Brown & Bigelow. In 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and in 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Calendar Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.
Rolf Armstrong died in 1960 on the island of Oahu, Hawaii as one of the best "pin-up" artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
From the son of a small town tugboat captain to the Father of American Pin-Up Art, Rolf Armstrong led a full life and had a long and prolific career. Armstrong started his education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where his teachers increasingly recognized his work. The institute was a stepping-stone to Armstrong's successful career in commercial art.
Two of the first publications to take a chance on this new talent were Judge and Puck Magazine and Armstrong was an instant success. Eventually Rolf Armstrong's artwork were seen on several covers for the American and Metropolitan Magazine and he had a lengthy tenure doing cover art for College Humor Magazine. His portrait of a male sailor appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
In 1919, Armstrong aligned himself with Brown & Bigelow where he painted countless images for advertising calendar art. During these years along side Maxfield Parrish and Norman Rockwell, Armstrong was this prestigious calendar company's star artist and an eager public awaited next months Armstrong Girl .
The character of the women that Armstrong portrayed contrasted that of other artists of the pin-up movement. Armstrong's subjects were strong, confident women. They had an innate femininity and subtle sexuality yet were very much a product of the ongoing American Industrial Revolution.
With the development of national advertising and the increasing distribution of magazines, commercial illustrators were in high demand and artists themselves were seen as celebrities. Motion picture film technology created screen stars and movie magazines such as the famed Photoplay sought out illustrators to create cover artwork donning these new faces. Rolf Armstrong's portraits included those of Norma Talmadge, Marion Davies, Bebe Daniels and Greta Garbo. During the same period, he did advertising art for products such as Nehi and Green River Soda, Old Gold Cigarettes and Hires Rootbeer. The artist insisted on using live models for his portrait paintings, as when Boris Karloff posed in character on the set of the film Frankenstein or with his good friend James Cagney on the set of Mr. Roberts.
Today, collectors cherish original examples of his artwork and bids often soar into the ten's of thousands of dollars when they turn up at auction.