untitled (playing card), Alberto Vargas

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Alberto Vargas, untitled (playing card)
Alberto Vargas, untitled (playing card)
Alberto Vargas
untitled (playing card)
1945
Alberto Vargas, artist
1896–1982
untitled (playing card), 1945
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: airbrushing; watercolor
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 53.3 x 34.4 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 0.9843 x 13 9/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 55.6 x 37.9 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 21 7/8 x 14 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in
Credit line: Gift of Esquire, Inc.
Accession number: 1980.0670
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups," Sep-2001, Stephen Goddard, Maria Buszek Esquire periodically marketed playing cards featuring Vargas gatefolds. Later, as in the two 1945 designs exhibited here, Vargas produced watercolors specifically to be used for playing cards.