Aviation Day! 20 Aug 2013 | 07:52 am

A great Bolles cover to celebrate Aviation Day, a theme that he revisited a number of times over the years.  Sorry for the long layover but my carrier has experienced some mechanical difficulties.  We...

Oom Pah Pah! Today is Tuba Day 4 May 2013 | 12:17 am

I've been dying to post this cover for Tuba day but missed my cue two years in a row.  No way was I going to let that happen again. You just got to love this image but I've long wondered how she made ...

Mr. Bolles would like to inform you that today is also Lei Day! 1 May 2013 | 09:06 pm

National Golf Day! Tee up with a Bolles Girl 18 Apr 2013 | 08:04 pm

  To celebrate National Golf day we start out with another fine example of Bolles advertising work. Clearly the assignment called for realism and Bolles succeeded in subsuming his personal expressi...

The Best from Bolles 25 Mar 2013 | 06:58 pm

I just finished reading some comments from an old post at the terrific Illustration Art blog managed by David Apatoff, who moonlights as a historian on both modern and historical illustration.  At som...

Happy Valentine's Day. Thanks for the candy! 14 Feb 2013 | 08:23 pm

Enoch Bolles would like to alert you that January 11 is Cigarettes are Hazardous to your Health Day 12 Jan 2013 | 01:37 am

Has any other pinup artist embraced the cigarette as much as Bolles?  He used it as a prop in his second magazine cover, published by Judge way back in 1914, over than a decade before any cigarette co...

Happy New Year!! 2 Jan 2013 | 02:57 am

Our fun loving covergirl is the actress, Sally O'Neil. She'd been in the movies since the mid 20's but at the time this cover appeared in 1930 her film career was nearing its end. Apparently, Sally ha...

A reminder from Enoch Bolles that December 26th is Boxing Day 26 Dec 2012 | 02:00 pm

Saving Beauty 17 Dec 2012 | 08:20 pm

This image popped out of my mental archives the instant I eyed a New York Times article about a group of women training to become life guards at Manhattan beach, circa 1940.  Apparently it came to lig...