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Vintage Pin Up Girl Print
The image is a well-known piece of pin-up art titled Song of India by the American artist Rolf Armstrong. Created around 1931, it is one of his most recognized works and was primarily used as calendar art.
Artwork Details
Artist: Rolf Armstrong (1889–1960), often referred to as the "creator of the calendar girl".
Title: "Song of India" (sometimes known by the title "The Enchantress")
Medium: The original work was an oil on canvas painting, notably one of five life-size oil paintings Armstrong created for calendar use, a departure from his usual smaller pastel works.
Style and Genre: It is an illustration done in the Poster Art Realism style, specializing in glamorous depictions of female subjects.
Subject: The artwork features a woman in a glamorous pose, draped in a flowing, multi-colored (rainbow) veil, set against a dark background with silhouettes of what appear to be Middle Eastern or South Asian architecture (domes and a minaret).
Rolf Armstrong was a highly popular and well-paid commercial artist whose glamorous portraits of film stars and "girl-next-door" types were widely distributed in magazines and calendars throughout the early to mid-20th century.
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The image is a well-known piece of pin-up art titled Song of India by the American artist Rolf Armstrong. Created around 1931, it is one of his most recognized works and was primarily used as calendar art.
Artwork Details
Artist: Rolf Armstrong (1889–1960), often referred to as the "creator of the calendar girl".
Title: "Song of India" (sometimes known by the title "The Enchantress")
Medium: The original work was an oil on canvas painting, notably one of five life-size oil paintings Armstrong created for calendar use, a departure from his usual smaller pastel works.
Style and Genre: It is an illustration done in the Poster Art Realism style, specializing in glamorous depictions of female subjects.
Subject: The artwork features a woman in a glamorous pose, draped in a flowing, multi-colored (rainbow) veil, set against a dark background with silhouettes of what appear to be Middle Eastern or South Asian architecture (domes and a minaret).
Rolf Armstrong was a highly popular and well-paid commercial artist whose glamorous portraits of film stars and "girl-next-door" types were widely distributed in magazines and calendars throughout the early to mid-20th century.
