GREAT AMERICAN PINUP

Great American Pinup is a New York Art Gallery Specializing in Pin Up Art, and is a specialty of Louis K. Meisel Gallery. Louis K. Meisel Gallery is a New York Art Gallery Specializing in Fine Contemporary Realist Art. Great American Pinup and Louis K. Meisel Gallery possess the largest collection of pin up art in the world. The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1969... Most Americans who lived during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth were not able to visit museums or purchase art books. The only art they saw on a regular basis was illustration art. Commissioned by large publishing and advertising firms, images of paintings adorned the covers and pages of all American magazines and regional newspapers of the day... The 1920's gave rise to new imagery as competition between the publishing houses increased. Publishers knew only too well that, in the highly competitive market place, one sure way to secure new readers was to..

Primary location: New York United States