Paint Me Like One of Your Close Female Friends

“Mine always had some clothes on or at least a towel on,” Ballantyne told Klinkenberg. “I didn’t go in for dirty stuff like they do today. The trick is to make a pin-up flirtatious. You want the girl to look a little like your sister, or maybe your girlfriend, or just the girl next door. She’s a nice girl, she’s innocent, but maybe she got caught in an awkward situation that’s a little sexy.”

From Collector’s Weekly: “[T]hree of the most talented pin-up painters from the Golden Age, roughly the 1920s to the early 1960s, were women. Pearl Frush, Joyce Ballantyne, and Zoë Mozert were terrific, as good as any of the men — in fact, better than many of them.”