2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 11

Bloody Hells.
I went to post this week's calendars, and find that somewhere I lost a day; it's already Monday evening. You probably knew that. I'm still reeling. But here's the planned post that should have gone up at 12:03 this Ante-Meridian:

Y'know - i may be digging a hole for later me, but i feel like tripling again. So let's do 3 of each of our 3 calendar artists this week.

For our Classic Pin-Ups Calendar, please welcome a newcomer to the roster - Mr. Art Frahm. Art is one of those artists who has something to say...

...well, perhaps not 'something to say' exactly...

...but he definitely offers his own distinct views... 

Of course, he'd be greatly handicapped by modern wardrobes.

I think i may have said i'd try to move away from Enoch Bolles for a bit on the Covers Calendars.

I failed -

Someday i'd like to see a count of how many magazine covers he painted.

For our Blue Calendars this week, let's return to one of the true masters of the form - Gil Elvgren -
 

This next one i find oddly intriguing. Mr. Elvgren seems to have been trying a little something different, slightly more stylized, reflecting other art trends of the time...
 

...and back for a classic Elvgren end -

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 09

You might think that after posting Saturday Morning Toons yesterday that i'd realize today was Sunday. Well, i realize it now - with about 11 minutes left, and less than 15 before this post is supposed to go live.

Fortunately, i've got a few prepped and ready, just need the proper dates. But that means we just get the minimum this week - one of each of our 3 ongoing calendars.

For the Pin-Up Calendar, another classic composition from Rolf Armstrong -

I believe this is the first in this year's calendars for "Jack" Greiner with the April 1933 Gayety cover our Covers Calendar -

And for our Blue Calendar this week, Zoë Mozert returns with a stark portrait in blue - 

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations. 

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 08

Wording still laborious, so tripling up on the imagery instead. Each of our three calendar types gets three calendar pages this week, all three from a single artist.

For our Pin-ups Calendar, a new addition to our roster, Ernest Chiriaka -

Hugh Joseph Ward returns with a trio of Spicy pulps for this week's Covers Calendar -
 

For our Blue Monday Calendar this week, we have a trio of classic blonde bombshells from the brush of Earl Moran -

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations. 

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 07

For this week's calendars, let's double up. I don't know - in honor of February and Two-Face or whatever silly excuse we need.

For our Pin-up Calendars, Mike Ludlow returns with a bit of cold weather beauty -

For our second classic Pin-Up Calendar, please welcome Joe De Mers to this year's gathering of artists -

For our Covers Calendars this week, we've got a Spicy pair from Hugh Joseph Ward - 

If the name H.J. Ward sounds familiar, perhaps it's from the 'original' Batman cover from the February 1936 issue of Spicy Mystery Stories - 

Finally, for our Blue Monday calendars, a pair of returning artists. Archie Dickens provides our only Valantine's Day calendar...

...and Zoë Mozert returns for a portrait of pure lovliness - 

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 06

By popular request (Gordie's a popular kind of guy) we lead off this week with another from Edward Runci, the image that served for the template when putting together this year's calendars...

For this week's Cover Calendar, we've got another Enoch Bolles cover from the Film Fun -

It seems like we're leaning heavy on Enoch so far this year. I'll  try to remember to go a different way next week. But, as long as we're here, we've got the original painting for this cover, too -

This week's Blue Monday Calendar brings us a lovely winter image from Ren Wicks -

Yes, we'll be seeing more of Wicks' works.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labeled artists, of course (20thC)

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 03

This week we lead off with Mike Ludlow and a comic-appropriate painting for our Pin-up Calendar page -

Enoch Bolles returns for our Classic Covers Calendar with a Paris Nights cover from January 1937 -

For our Blue Calendar entry, we've got the first appearance of she who is arguably our oddest artist appearing on this year's calendars, Zoë Mozert -

As you might have guessed from the name, one of the things that makes Zoë so different from the other featured artists is that she is a she. Another is that she was also, at times, her own model -

Here's a photo of her in later years, standing in front of one of her most famous works, the Red Dog Rosie mural -

Yes, you can has a better view of the mural, too -

Of course, we'll be seeing more from her this year.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by labelled artists, of course (20th C) 

2020 Blue Monday Calendars - Week 02

We'll keep it simple this week - only one of each calendar style - just so we don't start patterns of overkill.

For our Pin-Up Calendar, we've got an Al Moore girl staying warm in winter wear, sort of...

...and our Old Magazine Covers calendar features Rolf Armstrong from January 1919...

 

Let me pause to remark on how much i enjoy the ... quality of light on the faces of Rolf's portraits. That's the best way i can think to phrase it, so let's take a quick look at a few to see what i mean -

It's not surprising his work was so popular and featured on many magazine covers.
 
For our Blue Calendar this week, we've got Earl Moran and one of his paintings of Marilyn Monroe...

As you may know, Earl had rather unique relations with Marilyn...

...and turned out quite a few paintings of her, of which these are just a sampling...

Oddly, one of my favorites seems to be rarely seen on the web -

We'll be seeing a fair bit of Moore, Armstrong, and Moran on this year's calendars. Perhaps not a big surprise.

As always, the calendars are sized to print 8"x10" at 150dpi, with 1" square spaces for notations.

art by Al Moore and Rolf Armstrong (20th C)