J. Frederick Smith – brilliant artist who enjoyed incorporating pin-up and glamour themes into his mainstream work. His advertisements for Whitman’s Chocolates, for instance, featured mothers who were as glamorous as movie stars.
Although Smith’s pin-ups for the Gallery of Glamour were impressive, it was his special assignments for the magazine that distinguished him from his colleagues. His memorable three- or four-page illustrated articles, with titles like “Personal Interpretations”, first appeared in 1946. He also painted pin-ups for Esquire’s famous two-page gatefolds as part of a relationship that was to last more than a dozen years.
Pin-up with 45 rpm Records, Ballyhoo Calendar illustration, 1953
