Who is Archie Dickens?
Born 1907, Dickens attended the Slade School of Art in London and became = a free-lance commercial artist in the 1930s. Pin-up was just coming into = vogue. Archie yearned to paint girlie art but needed to help support his = family. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1937 and joined an advertising age= ncy in Auckland. There he painted his first pin-up.=20 In 1939, he went to Australia an worked for a studio in Sydney. His pin-u= ps were soon in great demand. After some time, he was compelled to join t= he Australian Army. so his art work was put aside for awhile. At the end = of the war he married an Australian girl and moved back to London where h= e produced saucy pictures. “Cheeky”, “saucy”, “randy” and a variety of other British euphemisms can = be employed when describing the works of Archie Dickens. An Englishman fr= om the old school, his fondness for lovely young innocents in not-so-inno= cent situations has delighted pin-up enthusiasts throughout the world for= several generation
