Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups
Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups
Maria Buszek, curator
Stephen Goddard, curator
September 29, 2001–December 30, 2001
Kress Gallery, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Eighty-four of the original watercolor and airbrush paintings by Alberto Vargas (1896-1982) that appeared as pinups in Esquire magazine during the 1940s (from the Esquire Collection of the Spencer Museum). The proposed catalogue will address the material from a variety of (some opposing) points of view: fashion and design; World War II material culture (the Varga Girls were painted onto bomber nose cones); second-wave feminism; third-wave feminist re-appraisal; the reception of the Peruvian-born artist in the U.S.; and the artist's significance in post-war popular culture.

Exhibition images

Works of art

First Love (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
First Love (gatefold), circa 1940
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1940
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1940
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (January calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (February calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (March calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (May calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (July calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (September calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (October calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1941
untitled (January calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (February calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (March calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
untitled (April calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (June calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
untitled (November calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
untitled (movie promotion), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (February calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (March calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (April calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (June calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (June calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (July calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (August calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (War Bonds promotion), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (November calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (December calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1943
untitled (January calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (February calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), circa 1944
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (April calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), circa 1944
untitled (July calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (December calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1944
untitled (playing card), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (playing card), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (January calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (back cover), circa 1945
untitled (April calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1945
untitled (gatefold September), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold August), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (November calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (December calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1946
untitled (March calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (June calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (September calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (October calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (November calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled, Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled, circa 1947
untitled (September calendar), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (calendar girl), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled, Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled, circa 1947
untitled (playing card), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (playing card), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (War Bonds promotion), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942

Events

October 6, 2001
Social
KU Annual Open House
10:00AM–3:00PM