Ruth Deckard was an American
pinup artist, known only as Deckard for many years and thought to be a man. It wasn't until ''The Great American Pin-up'' was published in 1996 that the world knew she was a woman. She was a Chicago-based artist. Most of her paintings were published by Louis F. Dow Co. of
St. Paul, Minnesota
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. She painted from the mid-1930s into the 1950s. Her art was not as refined as
Alberto Vargas or Petty, but it had a great appeal to the masses. One of her best is named ''Pin Cushion'', a woman lying on her back with a white top and skirt, her legs draped over the top of a round cushion, and four bowling pins leaned against the cushion.
Pin-up artists
Year of birth missing
20th-century deaths
American women artists
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