Although he did work commercially for companies such as Coca-Cola and Coppertone, he is best known for his pin-ups of "women in distress". These pin-ups depict a situation where in one way or another a woman's panties have fallen down around her ankles in a public situation with one or more onlookers. Women share embarrassment while men smirk with arousal. In most cases the models hands are busy holding a grocery sack with celery hanging out of it.
In other cases it is a pesky animal (most often a puppy) who has caused the reveal of her panties.
Here's a selection of some of my faves. Unfortunately I don't have the names/dates for all of these, I believe a couple are untitled.
FARE LOSER 1953
NO TIME TO GO 1954
MAIL CALL 1958
IN NEED OF HELP 1955
GOING DOWN 1956
THE SHAKEDOWN 1955
SPARE 1952
O-OOH 1950
NUMBER PLEASE 1957
NO TIME TO LOSE 1951
Here's on of Art Frahm's illustrations you may have seen before...
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5 comments:
Great collection of his falen panties artwork. Only you are mistaken about his drawing the Coppertone Girl. That was originally drawn by the late advertising artist Joyce Ballantyne Brand with her then three year old daughter as the model.
Oops! Thanks for setting it straight. I'm so emBARE-ASSED!
Art Frahm conceived and drew the rough drawing for the Coppertone ad. In fact, it was HIS daughter used as the model!
Joyce was a friend and co-worker of Art's. Art gave Joyce the task of finalizing his drawing! So Art Frahm really DID draw this ad among others.
Joyce Ballantyne just hogged the credit when Art past away. It's hard to defend yourself when you are not alive!
He also got screwed on the Quaker man on Quaker Oats boxes that he drew.
You can read these true and interesting facts in the new book I've almost finished writing about Art Frahm. Art Frahm was a genius and a fantastic artist!
When is your book out? I am so excited that there may be a book of his art at some point!
As you say, great artistry - however, it would be easier to appreciate it without the stupidly oversized Photobucket logos obscuring the art... 🙄
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