In the 15 years since TASCHEN released The Great American Pin-up, international interest in this distinctly American art form has increased exponentially. Paintings by leading artists such as Alberto Vargas, George Petty, and Gil Elvgren that sold for $ 2,000 in 1996 are going for $ 200,000 and more today. Pin-up―drawings, paintings, and pastels of an idealized female face and figure intended for...
Creators: Al Moore, Charles Russell Showalter, William Fulton Soare, Edward Runci, Arthur Sarnoff, Ellen Barbara Segner, Robert Skemp, Charles Gates Sheldon, Charles M. Relyea, J. Frederick Smith, Jay Scott Pike, Peter Driben, Rolf Armstrong, Gil Elvgren, Margaret Brundage, Earl Moran, Zoë Mozert, Enoch Bolles, Art Frahm, Marco Scali