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Rolf Armstrong (1899–February 22, 1960) was an American painter of pin-up art.

Bio
Rolf Armstrong was natural around Seattle. He moved to Chicago in 1908, where he late exposed at a Art Institute. He so went in to New York, where he exposed by having Robert Henri.

When the hike to Paris in 1919 to study at a Académie Julian, he returned to New York & established the studio. Within 1921 he went to Minneapolis to study calendar production at Brown & Bigelow.

When you took a 1920s and 1930s, his work appeared in several pieces of sheet music, too when on the covers of numbers of magazines. Numbers of stars posed for his portraits, including Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, and possibly Boris Karloff.

Armstrong's function for the Pictorial Review was largely responsible for that magazine achieving the cirulation of other than 2 million by 1926. A year late, he was a better merchandising calendar creative person at 'last & Bigelow. Within 1930, RCA hired him to paint pin-ups to advertise their products, and around 1933 the Thomas D. Murphy Company signed him to produce a series of paintings for their line.

Rolf Armstrong died within 1960, on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

ImageNETion: Rolf Armstrong
Virtual gallery of images by the pinup artist.

The Pin-up Files: Rolf Armstrong
Biography and a selection of his pinup artwork.






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