untitled (December calendar)

Alberto Vargas, artist

1896–1982

untitled (December calendar), circa 1943

Portfolio/Series title: published in Esquire magazine, January 1943

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: watercolor; airbrushing

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 58 x 76.2 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 22 13/16 x 30 in

Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.

Accession number: 1980.0590

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
"Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups," Sep-2001, Stephen Goddard, Maria Buszek
As in the Bugle Blowing WAAC gatefold from April 1943, this image of a member of the Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps depicts one of the women who enlisted in active military duty. The verse accompaning this gatefold announces:

A Merry Xmas to you all!
I’m off the join the WAACs
And serve the Country that I love
Until the Axis cracks!

The Axis was the alliance of Germany and Italy, later including Japan and other nations at war with the Allies (the United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser degree, China).