They're cartoony, suggestive and they defined an era of pin-up art. Artist and illustrator Gil Elvgren painted an all-American brand of "cheesecake" pictures of sexy, idealised calendar girls during ...

Flirtatious, revealing images of beautiful, idealized women, either in photographs or illustrations, became wildly popular among American troops who were stationed far from home during World War II.

Gil Elvgren was an American artist born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1914. He became one of the most famous pin-up and glamour artists of all time, known for his iconic images of the all-American ...

Hajime Sorayama was born in 1947 in Imabari, Japan, and is best known for his futuristic and hyper-realistic works that blend traditional Japanese art with Western aesthetic. He started his career as ...

Linnea Eleanor “Bunny” Yeager embodied the contradictions of midcentury America. The photographer, who died in 2014 at the age of 85, was a flirty exhibitionist and a suburban housewife. She was a ...

Jonathon Martin gives us a tour, albeit a short one, of his tiny studio apartment located just across the street from Comerica Park. “This is my kitchen, and also where I do my paintings,” he says ...