VINTAGE 1953 PIN UP CALENDAR CHIRIAKA AUTOGRAPHED RARE

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VINTAGE 1953 PIN UP CALENDAR CHIRIAKA AUTOGRAPHED RARE PLEASE VIEW MY ADULT ONLY ITEMS I HAD TO MOVE MY LISTINGS SHOWING "BARE BODY PARTS" THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT NANA'S ATTIC HERE AT NANA'S ATTIC WE ARE ALWAYS WORKING TO BRING YOU THE BEST CHOICE OF VINTAGE PIN UP ART, MAXFIELD PARRISH, ART NOUVEAU, ART DECO, RETRO, VINTAGE DECORATIVE COLLECTIBLES, AND EPHEMERA! BE SURE TO ALSO CHECK OUT OUR HUGE VARIETY OF MINT COLLECTIBLE, OUT OF PRINT BOOKS FROM COLLECTORS PRESS. THESE BEAUTIFUL COLLECTORS BOOKS ARE BOUND TO APPRECIATE IN VALUE! YOU ARE VIEWING A NEAR MINT HAND SIGNED VINTAGE ESQUIRE GIRL 1953 CALENDAR SPECIAL DELUXE GLOSSY EDITION 12 BREATH TAKING BEAUTIES IN FULL COLOR ARTIST E. CHIRIAKA WITH ORIGINAL SLEEVE CALENDAR BACKING IS HAND AUTOGRAPHED BY EARNEST CHIRIAKA PHOTOS ARE A MAJOR PART OF MY DESCRIPTION CALENDAR HAS VERY MINOR VINTAGE WEAR SLEEVE HAS VINTAGE EDGE WEAR AND TEAR MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 11 x 8 1/2 INCHES ADD THIS FANTASTIC VINTAGE AUTOGRAPHED CALENDAR TO YOUR PIN UP COLLECTION! 100% GUARANTEED VINTAGE ORIGINAL , AS YOUR SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED. IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY WITH ITEM, RETURN WITHIN 14 DAYS, FOR A FULL REFUND. YOU JUST PAY RETURN SHIPPING. WE HAVE 100% POSITIVE FEED BACK ON OVER 1260 SALES Although Esquire initially hired Al Moore to replace Vargas in the late 1940s, it was Ernest Chiriaka who took over the magazine's twelve-page calendar from 1953 to 1957 - a great responsibility since the calendar had continued to be the largest-selling and most popular in the world. Ernest Chiriacka was born Anastassios Kyriakakos in New York City on May 11, 1913 Chiriaka got a job painting movie and theater posters for the Associated Display Company in New York City in the early 1930s, even though he had no formal art training. Realizing he had much to learn, he enrolled in the Art Students League and then moved on to study at the Grand Central School under Harvey Dunn, his greatest influence. In the late 1930s, he worked for the pulps, doing front-cover paintings mainly of Western subjects. Among the "slicks" that employed him were The Saturday Evening Post and Cosmopolitan . During the 1940s and early 1950s, he created front-cover paintings for American Weekly , the Sunday-magazine supplement of the Hearst newspapers. Chiriaka's first pin-ups were for Esquire in 1952. Working in gouache, he produced works that had very distinctive skin tones, especially in their printed form. Chiriaka contributed pin-ups to the 1953 Brown & Bigelow Ballyhoo calendar and later did three additional pin-ups that the firm published as seperate calendars. He also traveled often to Hollywood to paint film stars. In the late 1930s, Chiriaka had devised wonderful front covers for Western pulp magazines. He later went on to create front-cover Western subjects for the paperback book market, working mostly with Pocket Books and Cardinal Editions. When his career in commercial illustration ended, Chiriaka brought his love of the Old West to the field of fine art. His distinctive style, influenced by Impressionism, established him as one of the greats in the field of contemporary Western painting. Ernest Chiriaka bio from 'The Great American Pin-Up WE PACK WITH THE UTMOST CARE AND NEVER CHARGE AN EXTRA FEE FOR HANDLING, PACKING, OR SHIPPING MATERIALS. BE SURE TO CHECK OUT OUR HUGE VARIETY OF MINT COLLECTIBLE, OUT OF PRINT BOOKS FROM COLLECTORS PRESS: WE OFFER MANY FIRST EDITIONS, LIMITED EDITIONS, AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR EDITIONS. WE HAVE MANY EDITIONS ABOUT PIN-UP ART BY ELVGREN, DEVORSS, ARMSTRONG, MORAN, LEYENDECKER, CROMWELL AND MANY OTHERS! ALSO BOOKS ABOUT 20TH CENTURY COMMERCIAL ART, MAXFIELD PARRISH ART, COMIC BOOK ART, AND PULP FICTION ART! THESE FINE BOOKS ARE LIKE NEW AND HAVE BEAUTIFUL COLOR PICTURES SUITABLE FOR FRAMING! NOT AVAILABLE IN BOOK STORES AS THEY ARE OUT OF... read more

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