Pinup Girls of Alberto Vargas

He designed the cover of The Cars album Candy-O.

Alberto Vargas (1896–1982) was a noted painter of pin-up girls and erotica. His subjects were called Varga Girls. Born in Arequipa, Peru, Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chavez came to the United States in 1916. He is perhaps most famous for his 16 years illustrating for Playboy magazine, during the 1960s and 1970s.

His pictures would often portray, elegantly dressed, semi-nude to nude women of idealized proportions; large breasts, curved waists, trimmed pubic hair, etc. Vargas's artistic trait would be slender fingers and toes, the nails of which were often painted red.

Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Years (Vignettes)

The book has a nice set-up as the pinups are printed nicely with good color reproduction. I use them as reference for painting nose art on A-2 flight jackets and the quality really allows me to get some really nice detail for my purposes. ....

I came across pin-ups during my studies in history in college. And that's where I fell in love with Vargas' Women. Never before had I feasted my eyes on such beauty and innocence which he had the ability to create. "The Esquire Years, (Vignettes)is a beautiful book depicting most of his works. I've never seen a more complete collection of Vargs' work ever before printed. The one problem I had was the extremely small size of the book. I had hoped that this book would be much larger, at least 8X11". If the size was somewhat larger I would've enjoyed this beautifully done book much more. In this situation size does matter when it is a Vargas!

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