untitled (gatefold), Alberto Vargas

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Alberto Vargas, untitled (gatefold)
Alberto Vargas, untitled (gatefold)
Alberto Vargas
untitled (gatefold)
circa 1942
Alberto Vargas, artist
1896–1982
untitled (gatefold), circa 1942
Portfolio/Series title: published in Esquire magazine, July 1942
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: watercolor; illustration board
Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 76.2 x 50.8 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 30 x 20 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in
Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.
Accession number: 1980.0551
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups," Sep-2001, Stephen Goddard, Maria Buszek The verse accompanying the published version of this gatefold describes a soldier who, after a phone call to his true love stateside, realizes that he is fighting for her. This concept reappears frequently in subsequent imagery and the accompanying poems. Like the January 1942 calendar image exhibited here, this gatefold was directly inspired by a photograph of actress Carole Lombard, who had died in a plane crash on January 16, 1942.