Pearl Frush
Female Pin Up Artist , Smooth Sailing, Sweethearts of Sport, 1945
Gouache on Illustration Board
21 39/50 × 17 in | 55.3 × 43.2 cm
$ 27,000.00
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For those who appreciate good academic painting and drawing, study Pearl Frush. She gets it right. In the present work, Frush paints a perfect face. Not just anatomically, but also...
For those who appreciate good academic painting and drawing, study Pearl
Frush. She gets it right. In the present work, Frush paints a perfect
face. Not just anatomically, but also in capturing the subject's grace
and charming 1940s femininity. Here's a face to fall in love with, and
that was the point. Study her hands, they are portraits as well and
evoke the epitome of femininity.
The painting was done for a
calendar, so it had to be graphic to stop, grab, and hold the spectator.
Capturing a peak moment of joyous exhilaration.
"Smooth Sailing"
floats on air as much as it sails on water... with style, grace, and
timeless elegance. It's a woman painting a woman for men. How
wonderfully interesting a concept, and executed in 1945 at the end of
WWII.
Faintly signed lower left: Pearl Frush. Provenance: Property
from the Louis and Susan Meisel Collection. The present work is
published as a calendar for Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Co. and appears as
figure 423 in The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and
Louis K. Meisel (Taschen, 1996).
Frush. She gets it right. In the present work, Frush paints a perfect
face. Not just anatomically, but also in capturing the subject's grace
and charming 1940s femininity. Here's a face to fall in love with, and
that was the point. Study her hands, they are portraits as well and
evoke the epitome of femininity.
The painting was done for a
calendar, so it had to be graphic to stop, grab, and hold the spectator.
Capturing a peak moment of joyous exhilaration.
"Smooth Sailing"
floats on air as much as it sails on water... with style, grace, and
timeless elegance. It's a woman painting a woman for men. How
wonderfully interesting a concept, and executed in 1945 at the end of
WWII.
Faintly signed lower left: Pearl Frush. Provenance: Property
from the Louis and Susan Meisel Collection. The present work is
published as a calendar for Gerlach-Barklow Calendar Co. and appears as
figure 423 in The Great American Pin-Up by Charles G. Martignette and
Louis K. Meisel (Taschen, 1996).