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Art Frahm

Art Frahm (1907 - 1981) was active/lived in Illinois.  Art Frahm is known for Pin-up girl illustration.

Art Frahm (1907-1981) was an American painter of campy pin-up girls and advertising.  Frahm lived in Chicago, and was active from the 1940s to 1960s.  Today he is best known for his "ladies in distress" pictures involving beautiful young women whose panties mysteriously flutter to the ground in public situations, often causing them to spill their bag of groceries.  In one of Frahm's noted idiosyncratic touches, celery is often depicted.

Frahm had adequate technical competence for his medium, with a style somewhat reminiscent of Norman Rockwell's, though more cartoony.  He was mostly influenced by commercial artist Haddon Sundblom, with whom Frahm may have worked as an assistant early in his career.

Frahm's forte was depicting beautiful young white women, rendering their legs and figures.  Frahm's depictions of the women's faces are less successful, often tending towards plastic doll-like expressions.  Minor problems with perspective and unre   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2319 characters.]  Artist bio

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