- Roy Best
Roy Best was an American painter of pin-up art.
He was born in
Waverly, Ohio and attended theArt Institute of Cincinnati , working on arailroad construction crew to support himself. He later moved toChicago, Illinois , and enrolled in the Art Institute there.Later, Best was represented in New York by
American Artists , an agency which handled nearly a hundred highly regarded illustrators. While he was represented by American Artists, he painted several covers forThe Saturday Evening Post .By 1931, Best was painting pin-ups for the
Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company. That same year, he was awarded a commission from theWhitman Publishing Company to illustrate a children's book. That book, "The Peter Pan Picture Book", based onJ. M. Barrie 's playPeter Pan , was widely regarded as a masterpiece.In 1942, Best came to the attention of
Brown and Bigelow . Accepting their offer, he went on to a highly successful calendar career.ee also
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Pin-up girl
*List of pinup artists References
* "The Great American Pin-Up", by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel, ISBN 3-8228-1701-5
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