untitled (September calendar)

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 x 26 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 40 x 30 in

Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.

Accession number: 1980.0543

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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.