Earl MacPherson and his unhealthy Cheesecake Pin Ups Vintage Sleaze

Earl Goes Big Game Hunting

NOTE:  I AM USING TEENY TINY IMAGES OF EARL MACPHERSON PAINTINGS AS ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES ONLY.   I DO NOT HOLD THE COPYRIGHT TO THEM.  I TOOK THEM FROM EBAY, WHERE DOZENS OF HIS IMAGES ARE SHOWN EVERY SINGLE DAY BY PEOPLE ACTUALLY SELLING THE ITEMS (OR TRYING TO...)   I AM NOT SELLING EARL MACPHERSON ILLUSTRATIONS.  I AM, HOWEVER, MAKING FUN OF THEM.    


I am no fan of cheesecake, and Earl MacPherson was the cheesiest of all.  Hunting for gals in cowboy boots is GAME?  Nice.  Thanks Mac, I like women but don't think of them as game.

At least the Humorama pin up gag artists and illustrators like Eric Stanton, Bill Ward and Gene Bilbrew had a sense of humor about their smut.  Mac wanted you to take it literally while he took it to the bank.

It is always a beautiful, sunny day in Mac's world.  That is unless he wanted to paint an umbrella and a wet woman…but even then the sun would shine on the top of her stockings.  Mac specialized in the upskirt.  Now one of the most popular uses of a cellphone at the grocery store, but back then a way to sell your product to oglers and leering men.  And apparently leering boys…as one of his posters shown here depicts a third grade teacher thrilling young Earl with her silk dress pulled high.  Third grade!  I guess Earl matured before me, I was still killing flies with a giant rubber band in third grade.

Earl Lusts After his THIRD GRADE TEACHER

So let's see if I can find anything good to say about Earl.  That is, other than that the president of the company Earl worked for, the publisher Brown and Bigelow, served time in prison for tax evasion and later hired hundreds of ex-cons to print the calendars.

Well…it appears Earl made one of his biggest early bundles selling his work to Lucky Strike Tobacco during the war.  Nice.  Nothing better than equating sex with smoke.  Light one up, boys…and dream of coming (home). 

Earl's real name was Edgar and he was an Okie.  Born in 1910.  He painted rich people for a while in Honolulu, but soon put his efforts towards dirty playing cards.  They sold well enough for Earl to buy a 4-acre ranch in California. 

I guess his biggest accomplishment was the "Hunting with Macpherson" book, with women painted as game birds to be hunted and shot. 

Mac's work adorned such notable products as "The Interstate Tire Company Calendar"  and the "Odessa Spring Axle Company" of Odessa Texas.  This one was Earl's mighty artistic leap into paper dolls, and allowed the owner to cut out the cuties and play with them.  "The Ace Metal Spinning Company" of Buffalo, New York gave away an ink blotter in which one could obliterate a lingerie adorned blond with 5 inch heels with splatters from your pen.  In his stunning set for "Hefner's Electric Motor Service (We Rewind and Repair) Earl revs the motors of a platinum blond delighted to be tacked to the inside of an electrician's tool chest.

Earl also did landscapes and not very well.  Despite claims his work sold for "$16,730.00" at auction" one festers on ebay for a "Buy it Now" price of $650.  His simply horrible painting of Betty Page (certainly NOT done from life, as he fails to capture any) was turned into a poster which also molds away in the cyber-shopping mall.

Earl Manages to Remove ALL life from Bettie Page

Earl Macpherson is basically Norman Rockwell as perv.  While Rockwell was advocating social change, equality of the races and the most important American values for the post-industrial country recovering from the great depression, war and social upheaval, Mac was putting sexist fantasy on gas station walls for grease monkeys to peer up at while in the pit changing oil.  Particularly impressed with himself, Earl published his own story in the book "The Earl From Oklahoma" which showed him posing in a shop window waving his cowboy hat while a paid model with few clothes feigned excitement.  Inside the book Earl shows how to paint a scantily dressed woman astride a horse.

Earl is best known for his instructional books in which he teaches others with his unhealthy attitude towards woman to paint.  They litter antique malls across the country, always overpriced at like five bucks each.

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