Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories abominations

abominations

Written by an art historian at the National Gallery who actually took a class from Sloan at the Art Students League

The rich subject material offered by urban store windows became another abiding interest

Post-Human Review: "Big Red Feet

and the strange creatures that populate its pages exist with him and in him

Varga, the Esquire Years: A Catalogue Raisonne Blackwing Pencils & Accessories abominationsThe first lavish, full color collection of the sensationally popular art of Alberto Vargas, whose scintillating Varga Girls became the 1940s feminine ideal. More than 250 full color illustrations. This Catalogue Raisonne reproduces every Esquire Varga girl ever printed: the gatefolds, the calendars, the military edition covers, and every piece of Esquire Varga merchandise and non Esquire advertising art by Varga 1941 1947. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut.