Enoch Bolles

This work, produced in 1937, has recently been reissued as the Vargas Windy Girl and has appeared in well over 100 variations on Zippo lighters.

[1] Bolles studied at the National Academy of Design, and his first illustrations were published in 1914 on the covers of humor magazines, such as Judge and Puck.

In addition to his 200 covers for Film Fun, Bolles painted at least 300 more for spicy pulps, including Breezy Stories, Pep and New York Nights.

Bolles' monthly lineup of all-American beauties precisely posed in wildly imaginative costumes did much to define the future of American pin-up illustration, and remain popular today.

Psychological problems ended Bolles' professional career in 1943 and confined him to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in New Jersey for most of the rest of his life, but he continued to paint commissioned portraits and for personal pleasure.