Earl MacPherson

"Going Places" by Earl MacPherson

8x10in.

Oil on canvas

1941

"At Your Command" by Earl MacPherson

8x10in.

Oil on canvas

1942.

     Edgar Earl MacPherson was born in August, 1910 in Oklahoma. He moved to LA directly after high school to take classes at Chouinard School of Art. MacPherson's first part time job was painting movie posters at a theatre downtown. 

     By the late 1930s, he was hired by the "Kings of Pinup" aka Brown and Bigelow. Although he loved working for them, MacPherson stated that he was having trouble 'making the grade' in such a large company. A year after leaving them, he created one of his most famous pinups "At Your Command" in 1942. He sold his original sketch to the Lucky Strike cigarette company and made enough profit to settle down in Del Mar, California by 1946. While in his early retirement, MacPherson wrote and illustrated the 'How to' art book titled "How to Draw and Paint Beautiful Girls" in 1954. Earl MacPherson was diagnosed with polio in 1951 and survived until December 1993.