May 25th, 2023

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Pinups: George Petty’s Ridgid Tools Calendars

Petty Girls

Petty GirlsPetty GirlsGeorge Petty was one of the top "cheesecake" illustrators of the 30s and 40s. He began his career with a series of cartoons featuring beautiful girls and their far from handsome beaus. His work coined the term "Petty Girls" to describe the carefully airbrushed girls with brilliant smiles and sexy poses. He left Esquire, to be replaced by Alberto Vargas who we will be featuring here soon, and became a freelance commercial artist. His girls soon ended up gracing magazine ads and calendars for such unlikely products as Tung-Sol Radio Tubes and the aptly named, Ridgid Tools.

Mike Fontanelli has generously allowed Animtion Resources to digitize his Rigid Tools collection. These calendar pages are among the most sought after pinup collectibles, selling for as much as $40 to $50 a sheet. Many thanks to Mike for sharing this with us.

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Here’s an extra bonus! The 1947 True Magazine Petty Girl calendar…

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Petty Girls

Stephen Worth
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Animation Resources

Magazine CartoonsMagazine Cartoons

This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Magazine Cartoons.

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May 22nd, 2023

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Illustration: Mary Blair’s Baby’s House

Mary Blair Baby's House

Earlier, we featured Mary Blair’s Golden Book "Little Verses". Today, we feature her long out-of-print book, "Baby’s House".

Many thanks to my friend Mike Fontanelli for sharing this with us.

Mary Blair Baby's House
Mary Blair Baby's House
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Mary Blair Baby's House
Mary Blair Baby's House
Mary Blair Baby's House
Mary Blair Baby's House

Stephen Worth
Director
Animation Resources

IllustrationIllustration

This posting is part of a series of articles comprising an online exhibit spotlighting Illustration.

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May 19th, 2023

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Animation Resources is starting off its second decade with a bang! Reference Pack 51 features the complete collection of one of the masterpieces of Japanese art, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 53 Stations Of The Tokaido Road, which Frank Lloyd Wright described as “the most valuable contributions ever made to the art of the world.” In addition, this reference pack features animated films from Russia, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Croatia, and Japan, four films by abstract filmmaker Hans Richter, and curated breakdowns of animated filmmaking techniques. This RefPack is going away at the end of May, so if you haven’t already, download it now.

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