Computer Animation Arts

Rolf Armstrong, Self Portrait, 1914 - pastel on board Introducing the languid and oh-so glamourous pin-ups of illustrator, Rolf Armstrong. Vampish, alluring and kitsch, these bedroom-eyed starlets dazzle with their super-saturated colours. "Born in Seattle in 1899, Rolf Armstrong grew up in the rugged environment of the Pacific Northwest. He moved to Chicago in 1908 and later enrolled at the Art Institute, where he studied for three years under the master draftsman John Vanderpoel . He then went on to New York, where he became a student of Robert Henri. Athletic as well as artistic, Armstrong both boxed and sketched at the New York Athletic Club. After a trip in 1919 to study art at the Académie Julian in Paris, Armstrong established a studio in Greenwich Village and started to paint Ziegfeld Follies girls. In 1921, he went to Minneapolis-St. Paul to study calendar production at Brown and Bigelow. A perfectionist all his life, Armstrong mastered the technical aspect...