Joyce Ballantyne
She was born in 1918 in Norfolk and studied at the University of Nebraska for two years until she decided to enroll at the Art Institute of Chicago.
She began working for Kling Studios but early she joined Stevens and Gross, an advertising agency where she worked with another great illustrators as Gil Elvgren becoming one of his closest friends.
In 1945 she started to work for Brown & Bigelow thanks to a good recommendation made by Elvgren and her work became very famous.
But the most important success brought her a pin-up's series painted for a calendar which published Shaw-Barton in 1954. Ballantyne was such a pretty girl that she used to pose as her own model for painting her famous pin-up girls.
In 1959 she painted an illustration for Coppertone suntan lotion that would become an icon for a whole country.
She also worked for important magazines as Esquire or Penthouse and for another highly reputed companies such as Sylvania TV, Dow Chemical, Coca-Cola, or Schlitz Beer.
In 1974 she began painting portraits for different important personalities.
She died in 2006 in Florida.
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