DAVID WRIGHT 1940’s ORIGINAL PRINT – ‘TAKING COVER’ NOT A COPY OR REPRODUCTION

Original 1940’s PINUP by DAVID WRIGHT

 Probably one of the only English Pinup artists in the 1940’s

 Printed monogram bottom left – D.W.

The Title is- TAKING COVER , printed under

 Size – 13 1/4 ” x 9 1/4 ” .= 340 mm x 240 mm

From a Portfolio issued in the 1940’s by The Sketch Magazine

 The back is blank it was made for framing

 AN ORIGINAL PRINT FROM THE 1940’s NOT A COPY OR REPRODUCTION

David Wright (12 December 1912 – 25 May 1967) was a British illustrator who drew a series of “lovelies” that epitomized female glamour during World War II. he was one of the leading pin-up artists of the 20th Century. Unlike his American contemporaries Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren, the British-born Wright brought a sense of realism to his willowy However, it is his series of 169 illustrations for The Sketch magazine (from 1941 to 1951) that became most popular.