February 1955 Esquire Calendar Pin Up

Title: February 1955 Esquire Calendar Pin Up
Subject: Fencing in Popular Culture; Pin-Ups
Description: February page of the 1955 Esquire pin-up calendar. The entire calendar features illustrations by George Petty, and the February image depicts a woman wearing a see-through leotard with a red heart on her breast, a fencing glove, and is bending a fencing sword against the ground. A short poem accompanies the image in the top left:

Your Valentine awaits the day
With tender heart and sharp epee.
(In case you'd planned on candy, Sirs,
Get the point - and bring her furs.)
Creator: George Petty
Publisher: Fencing Arms & Artifacts
Date: 1955
Temporal Coverage: 1950s
Contributor: Esquire Magazine (Publisher)
Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0
Is Part Of: Benjamin Bowles Collection
Format: Calendar
Language: English
Type: Still Image
Identifier: 2020.01.002
Extent: 8.125" wide, 11" tall.
Provenance: Loaned for digitization by Benjamin Bowles; Digitized by Benjamin Bowles; Cataloged by Benjamin Bowles