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Yea, I swiped them from somewhere, I just can't remember where. I was digging around in some old files on my other computer today and found them again so I figured I'd post them
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Just wondering if those were Ford approved? Also, were they from the times? Seems kinda risque for back then. Could not be directed to a more defined market. Men, truck buyers and lovers of cheese cake. Lovers of all things good lookin'.
BTW, thanks for posting.
BTW, thanks for posting.
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I'd say yes they were from the times, and not really risque for then. It was post war and there was plenty of cheese cake going around during the war. I'd guess these cartoons were made for some sort of trade magazine, not The Saturday Evening Post.
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I would also assume that these were trade magazines seen only by men. Remember going into the auto repair shops and seeing Playboy calendars, and even pretty revealing Snap-On calenders that are no longer allowed. Times do change.
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Already done. (No pun intended!) The closest hit I could find was an article from a 1956 American Artist magazine where he describes his use of watercolour. Other than that, I couldn't find a thing about it. Let us know if you do.
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Edit: A search variation of Caven Dunn turned up this.
Living in Davenport, Iowa and Chicago, Illinois, Calvin Dunn became a noted designer and illustrator working both in oil and watercolor. Beginning 1947, he was president of Cal Dunn studios in Chicago, and from 1950 to 1962, did watercolor story assignments for the Ford Motor Company throughout the United States. He was also a designer and illustrator for the Ramsey Company in Davenport, Iowa, and from 1943 to 1944, was an animation and art director at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.
He studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy and was a member of the American Watercolor Society.
Source: "Who Was Who in American Art" by Peter Falk
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Interesting info on the artist. It would be cool to find some others that he has done
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Bob, I was still working as a mechanic when Snap-On, MAC, Matco, etc caved to the pressure from the fat ugly dikes and stopped featuring gals in the calendars. The fat ugly dikes complaining that its degrading to women......bullcrap! They're just mad because the market for fat ugly dikes calendars is pretty small and nobody would buy them.
