Roy Best
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Roy Best was an American painter of pin-up art.
He was born in Waverly, Ohio and attended the Art Institute of Cincinnati, working on a railroad construction crew to support himself. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and enrolled in the Art Institute there.
Later, Best was represented in New York by American Artists, an agency which handled nearly a hundred highly regarded illustrators. While he was represented by American Artists, he painted several covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
By 1931, Best was painting pin-ups for the Joseph C. Hoover & Sons calendar company. That same year, he was awarded a commission from the Whitman Publishing Company to illustrate a children's book. That book, The Peter Pan Picture Book, based on J. M. Barrie's play Peter Pan, was widely regarded as a masterpiece.
In 1942, Best came to the attention of Brown and Bigelow. Accepting their offer, he went on to a highly successful calendar career.
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- The Great American Pin-Up, by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel, ISBN 3-8228-1701-5
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