Page 8 - catalog 2014
P. 8
THE PAMPLIN COLLECTION: Illustrations & Prints
You Can Learn to Water Ski
(from the girls magazine Calling All Girls, July 1961), by Freeman Elliott (American, 1922-). Born in 1922 in a suburb of Chicago, Freeman Elliot’s early work appeared on Brown & Bigelow’s successful Ballyhoo Calendar,
along with that of Esquire. Millions of Americans saw his pinups on the covers of Hearst’s Pictorial Weekly during the 1950s. Though often amusing, his pinups could also be sexy and sensual. He had career that encompassed front covers for national magazines, story illustrations, and advertising art.
