untitled (September calendar), Alberto Vargas

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Alberto Vargas, untitled (September calendar)
Alberto Vargas, untitled (September calendar)
Alberto Vargas
untitled (September calendar)
circa 1941
Alberto Vargas, artist
1896–1982
untitled (September calendar), circa 1941
Portfolio/Series title: published in Esquire magazine, January 1941
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: watercolor; illustration board
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 99.1 x 66 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 39 1/2 x 26 0.9843 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 40 x 30 in
Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.
Accession number: 1980.0543
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups," Sep-2001, Stephen Goddard, Maria Buszek This calendar image recalls Vargas’s earlier work for the Ziegfeld Follies. Since he was under great pressure to create a large number of pinups and calendar images for Esquire, it is possible that Vargas occasionally revived and reused earlier work from his portfolio, including this theatrically posed pin-up.