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William Edward (Bill) Medcalf (1920 - 2005) was active/lived in Minnesota. William Medcalf is known for Pin-up girl illustrations, landscape and portrait painting, engraving.
Born in Minneapolis, Bill Medcalf received all of his art education from schools near his hometown. In 1940 and 1941, he worked in the art department of the United States Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and in 1942, he joined the Navy as a gunners mate.
Bill painted more than twenty years of beautiful pinups for Brown & Bigelow from 1947 to 1967, handling all the special-project calendar commissions for their most important customers.
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"The Pinup Art of Bill Medcalf",
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www.roadkillcustoms.com/hot-rods-rat-rods/blog/template_permalink.asp?id=162#axzz2mgtsVt00 (Accessed 12/6/2013) ...
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Walter Humphrey
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Frederick Sands Brunner
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Enoch Bolles
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Pearl Frush
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James Avati
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Freeman Elliott
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Griswold Tyng
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Ron Lesser
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Paul Stahr
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Richard Sargent
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Elbert McGran Jackson
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Monte Crews
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Bradshaw Crandell
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KO Knute Munson
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John LaGatta
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Robert Berran
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Edward Victor Brewer
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Verne Tossey
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Edgar Franklin Wittmack
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William Edward (Bill) Medcalf
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Art Method
Easel Painting
Illustration, Illustrator
Art Media
Acrylic Paint
Gouache
Oil Paint
Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Realist, Representational, Naturalist
Art Subject
Figure, Figurative Humans
Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
Pin-Ups, Pin-Up Girls
Sports Figures, Athletes, Genre, Events
Chronology
Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
Brown & Bigelow Calendar Illustration
Calendar Illustration, Calendar Artist
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