David Wright’s ‘Arts of Peace’

10th January 2014 | Simone Aagaard

Wright produced a series of over 160 illustrations or pin-ups for The Sketch during the 1940s.

David Wright’s Lovelies proved hugely popular and adorned practically every military mess, bunker, dormitory or club room in the country during World War II.

This image is part of a series of post-war illustrations David Wright painted towards the end of his commercial relationship with the magazine.

Via: Iain Claridge

Vintage Erotica

9th April 2013 | Katherine Jane

From that point in time when the pin-up illustrations of Vargas and Elvgren began to be replaced by pin-up photography that was yet to find its own style.

I’ve actually posted this image of model Marilyn Waltz from 1955 simply because I love the colours (which, of course, are also suggestive of an illustrative image).

Via: Vintage Erotica