[The 1950 Esquire Girl Calendar and Envelope]

The 1950 pin-up Esquire Girl calendar features twelve months of pin-up girl artwork by American artist Al Moore. The calendar begins in January and ends in December with accompanying printed envelope.
Date: 1950
Creator: Moore, Al
Object Type: Artwork
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Esquire Girl: Painting by Al Moore "Medium- Rare" (open access)

The Esquire Girl: Painting by Al Moore "Medium- Rare"

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. On the first page, a landscape spread, by Al Moore, of a blonde woman lounging on her stomach in a blue striped two-piece bathing suit. She has with her a radio, sunglasses, cigarettes, and matches. The page is stamped with the location the magazine was purchased as a Russell's Men's Department. The facing page is a muted-tone machismo bull and matador painting done by Ben Stahl.
Date: June 1950
Creator: Moore, Al
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Skiing is Believing" (open access)

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Skiing is Believing"

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women and descriptive text. The first image is the January spread for The Esquire Girl. Painted by Al Moore, this Esquire girl is a blonde wearing a light blue sweater paired with verses and chorus on skiing and mountain metaphors. The following page is a "There was a Man" painting done by Warren Baumgartner of American folk hero and solider "Old Wolf" Putnam [ Israel Putnam] [1718-1790].
Date: January 1950
Creator: Moore, Al & Baumgartner, Warren
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "The Bewitching Hour" (open access)

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "The Bewitching Hour"

Page from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women, descriptive text, and paintings. On the first page is a spread of an Al Moore painting of blonde masked Esquire Girl themed to Halloween. On the verso side is a painting by Fred Freeman showing the historic rescue of the sailors on the U.S Squalus submarine in 1939 off the coast of Maine.
Date: October 1950
Creator: Moore, Al & Freeman, Fred
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Green is for go" (open access)

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Green is for go"

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring illustrations of women, descriptive text, and paintings. The first image is a spread of an Al Moore Esquire girl paired with a rhyming verse on the color green. The second page is a "There was a Man" painting by Gustav Rehberger depicting the folk hero "Wild Bill" Hickok done for the May edition of Esquire Magazine in 1950.
Date: May 1950
Creator: Moore, Al & Rehberger, Gustav
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Flippancy" (open access)

The Esquire Girl by Al Moore "Flippancy"

A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an auburn Esquire girl cast as a "queen of hearts" character playing with a deck of cards and a magician's hat. On the following page is a western painting of Daniel Boone coming to the rescue of an American soldier by Ken Riley for the July 1950 edition of Esquire Magazine.
Date: July 1950
Creator: Moore, Al & Riley, Ken
Object Type: Clipping
System: The UNT Digital Library