Pinups from 1956 - Esquire Calendar featuring the Petty Girls
This was the Esquire calendar for 1956. Will ya just LOOK at those be-yoo-tiful Petty Girls??
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Petty Girl Pin-ups - 1948 True Magazine Calendar
We’re getting down to some of the last Petty calendar girls, and pretty soon I’ll start posting some really nice stuff by Gil Elvgren and some other artists who’ve done some fine pinup art. But for now I hope you enjoy this 1948 True Magazine calendar with all George Petty artwork.
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1955 was a good year for the Petty Girl and Esquire Magazine. Take a look at the pages of this calendar, and you’ll agree: it was a good year indeed!
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Sexy Ridgid Pinup calendar girls from 1952 and 1953 - all by George Petty.
George Petty was one of the top “cheesecake” pinup illustrators of the 30s and 40s. He began his career with a series of cartoons featuring beautiful girls and their far from handsome beaus. His work coined the term “Petty Girls” to describe the carefully airbrushed girls with brilliant smiles and sexy poses. He left Esquire, to be replaced by Alberto Vargas who we will be featuring here soon, and became a freelance commercial artist. His girls soon ended up gracing magazine ads and calendars for such unlikely products as Tung-Sol Radio Tubes and the aptly named, Ridgid Tools. These calendar pages are among the most sought after pinup collectibles, selling for as much as $40 to $50 a sheet.
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Petty Girl Vintage 1950s Pin-up Matchbooks
These are six sexy pinup girl matchbook covers, all from the early 1950s. The Petty Girl is probably just as well-known as the Varga Girl, and you will find Petty’s artwork featured quite often on tool calendars and ads and also on matchbooks.
I found this collection of six vintage Petty Girl pinup matchbook covers on eBay recently. It’s a fine example of Petty’s work and it appears these covers are in very good condition.
These are very good pics but I wish they were a little bit larger! Very nice collector’s items.
