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David Wright Original 1940's Pinup By Famous English Pin Up Artist

$50 (approx conversion from £40)

Code: kit

Dimensions:W: 24cm  (9.4")H: 34cm  (13.4")

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Original 1940's PINUP by the famous English Pin Up Artist DAVID WRIGHT

Probably one of the only English Pinup artists in the 1940’s WWII era

Printed monogram bottom left - D.W.

The Title is- KIT INSPECTION, printed under

Size – 13 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches.= 340 mm x 240 mm

From a Portfolio issued in the 1940’s by The Sketch Magazine

The back is blank it was made for framing

AN ORIGINAL PRINT FROM THE 1940’s NOT A COPY

 

David Wright (12 December 1912 – 25 May 1967) was a British illustrator who drew a series of "lovelies" that epitomised female glamour during World War II. he was one of the leading pin-up artists of the 20th Century. Unlike his American contemporaries Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren, the British-born Wright brought a sense of realism to his willowy However, it is his series of 169 illustrations for The Sketch magazine (from 1941 to 1951) that became most popular.