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Mahlon Blaine
Mahlon Blaine’s best work walked the razor's edge between the grotesque and beautiful, and though few facts of his life are verifiable, insomuch as anyone can gather, he lived in that no man’s land as well. Blaine’s devotion to the macabre, bizarre, and sexual aspects of his art put brakes on his commercial career, and though he had patrons buying his original works during his lifetime, it was only through his rediscovery by sci-fi collectors and underground cartoonists that his current cult status has emerged. 
Rolf Armstrong
From the son of a small town tugboat captain to the Father of American Pin-Up Art, Rolf Armstrong led a full life and had a long and prolific career. The character of the women that Armstrong portrayed contrasted that of other artists of the pin-up movement. Armstrong's subjects were strong, confident women. They had an innate femininity and subtle sexuality yet were very much a product of the ongoing American Industrial Revolution.
Henry Clive
Henry Clive's colorful life began in 1882 as Henry O'Hara in Austrailia. He made his way to Hollywood supporting himself with the trade of a magician and later became a Silent screen actor. His magazine cover illustration work ultimately propelled him into being an iconic force of the art deco Jazz Age. His pastels and oils graced the covers of Smart Set, True Confessions, Screen Play and Theatre Magazine and he worked for William Randolph Hearst's American Weekly, a relationship that lasted three decades.
Gil Elvgren
Gillete Elvgren is regarded today as the most technically proficient and gifted commercial pin-up artist of the 20th century, a prolific and hard working perfectionist who created luminous portraits of the mischievous girl next door for the Louis F. Dow Calendar Company and later the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company. Gil Elvgren's ability to capture the spirit and sensuality of American feminine beauty was unsurpassed.
Cardwell Higgins
One of the most prolific yet unheralded American pulp, advertising, and pin up illustrators of the 20th century, Cardwell Higgins is remembered most for the highly inventive and provocative covers he created for depression-era Spicy Pulp titles such as "Silk Stockings" and "Expose Detective". Higgins left behind an incredibly wide and varied body of work, which spanned genres, styles, and generations of trends.
Earl Moran
The inception of Earl Moran's vibrant career as a pin-up artist could be narrowed to 1932 when Moran signed an exclusive contract with Brown & Bigelow who eventually sold millions of calendars graced with his sensual art deco pin-up girls. Moran was a photographer, as well as an illustrator, which lent well in his portrait pin-ups by giving him a great knowledge of lighting and shadows.
Charles Sheldon
Although Charles Sheldon can arguably be called one of the pioneers of pin-up art, his roots came from art nouveau style illustrations. One the highest paid illustrators of his time, his cover illustrations were ingrained in the minds and eyes of the American people. His glamorous interpretations of Clara Bow, Jean Harlow, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich were in high demand.
Arthur Prince Spear
Before Arthur Spear could read, he was fascinated with drawing pictures of horses. From that very early age, art was a clear focus for Spear. The majority of his artwork was not intended for commercial use with the exception of "Daydreams" which is his most famous image for this reason. He gave up painting in 1944, giving away all of his art supplies and destroying many of his paintings on hand.
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