[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Vacation Reverie] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Vacation Reverie]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl flying posing wearing a red bathing suit paired with a two stanza verse "Vacation Reviere" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of the painting Bombardiers Last Breath by John Falter used especially for the August edition of Esquire Magazine in 1943
Date: August 1943
Creator: Vargas, Alberto & Stack, Phil
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Hurrell Photograph: Betty Grable] (open access)

[Hurrell Photograph: Betty Grable]

A page from the August edition of Esquire magazine 1942. The front features a print of a color Hurrell photograph of actress Betty Grable [1916-1973]. The backside features a printed reproduction of the Declaration of Independence framed by columns and a painting depicting the continental congress by William Pachner.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Hurrell, George & Pachner, William
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Magazine Color Photograph of a Woman] (open access)

[Magazine Color Photograph of a Woman]

Page from Esquire Magazine featuring a color portrait photograph of an unidentified woman and arrangement of reproduction lithographs of paintings by Maxim Kope including, Flamboyant, Women with Fishnet, Tahitian Widow, and Fighting Women. Clipped from the 1943 August edition.
Date: August 1943
Creator: Kopf, Maxim
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sitting Pretty!] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sitting Pretty!]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a laughing blonde Varga Girl wearing a red, white and blue one-piece swimsuit while surfing paired with the verse "Sitting Pretty!" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction print of the painting "Dempsey & Firpo by George Bellows from the Whitney Museum of American Arts' collection used especially for the August edition of Esquire Magazine in 1944. The painting depicts the dramatic moment when Argentinian Luis Firpo knocked American Jack Dempsey out of the ring into the crowd during their 1923 match. Dempsey would go to win the fight. Bellows gave himself a cameo as the balding man seen to the bottom left edge of the oil painting.
Date: August 1944
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Bellows, George
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Victory Song ] (open access)

[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Victory Song ]

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a Varga Girl in costume as a patriot paired with a two stanza verse "Victory Song" by Phil Stack. On the following side of the spread is a reproduction offset lithograph print of a painting accompanied by descriptive text in the bottom margins especially for the August edition of 1943.
Date: August 1942
Creator: Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil; Benton, Thomas Hart & Colten
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adornment by Fritz Willis (open access)

Adornment by Fritz Willis

A single front and back page from the August edition of Esquire Magazine 1947. The page features theatrical and dance-themed pin-ups by Fritz Willis and Joe De, Mers followed by small paragraphs of descriptive text at the bottom of each printed illustration.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Willis, Fritz & De Mers, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Versatility by Ren Wicks (open access)

Versatility by Ren Wicks

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, no. 57, a blonde woman considers her knitting project, which she holds up to her waist with the excess yarn around her chest. She stands in front of a chair that has her clothes on it and next to her knitting bag. Description references Ralph Waldo Emerson and the virtue of young women doing older woman's hobbies. On the facing page, an actress prepares her makeup for a show. She is seen kneeling on a chair in front of a lit mirror and vanity in purple underwear and tights.
Date: August 1947
Creator: Wicks, Ren & Shook, Euclid
System: The UNT Digital Library