[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