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Enoch Bolles
- Pin-Up's Mad Master
- By Greg Theakston
- From Leg Show Magazine, Aug 1995
If you look hard. you'll find the hidden dicks. Enoch Bolles actually painted sex images into his fabulous pin-up art. Perhaps something was wrong with his mental condition when Bolles began to paint subtle phallic symbols onto some of his published originals from Film Fun, Reel Fun, and Movie Merry-Go-Round. What is certain is that this madman painted some of the greatest pin-up art of all time. Little is known about Enoch Bolles. It is said that he was a noted
painter from the first 25 years of this century, but this mystery man is perhaps best remembered for his oil paintings of saucy sweeties. By the late 1920s, Dell Publishing had developed a new kind of magazine, packed with photos of scantily clad women, yet respectable. Film Fun boasted pix of glamorous silent-screen starlets, peppered with hit and run vaudeville humor and cute cartoons. The content was racy, but their connection to Hollywood helped justify the material. It was a movie magazine, not a skin rag-though there was plenty of skin to be seen!
The best part of Film Fun was always the cover art by Enoch Bolles. Vargas, Petty, and Elvgren were all kids when Bolles began to paint pin-up, and all of them were inspired by his work. For almost twenty years, Bolles produced paintings of beautiful babes at a machine-gun clip, and he never missed the target. The search is on for clues to the mystery of Enoch Bolles, Mad Genius of Pin-Up Art.
The rest of the Art from this article can be seen in the file section at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheExtraordinaryBettiePage Also want to mention Greg Theakston is a valued member of the Bettie Page Group.
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