Biography of Al Brule

One of the few artists who worked with Art Frahm on his "panties-falling-down" works, Brule contributed a spectacular image of an airline stewardess to the series.

Brule was a Chicago illustrator whose style, with its painterly technique and strong primary colors, closely resembled that of the Sundblom circle. During the 1940s and the 1950s, he created many adverstisements for major national corporations, most of them appearing as full pages in leading magazines like The Saturday Evening Post. Brule also painted a number of advertising images that were reproduced as twenty-four-sheet billboards, which lined America's highways or were hung on the sides of buildings or specially erected platforms.

Like so many commercial illustrators, Brule eventually took up fine-art painting, specializing in Western subjects. He resided in the West and thus was able to live the life he depicted on his easel. Yet even in his Western paintings, Brule still expressed his appreciation of beautiful women. In fact, he began his fine-art career with an Indian pin-up girl, Buffalo Woman, an oil on canvas measuring 24 x 36 inches (61 x 91.4 cm), which was painted on a Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

IMPORTANT - This Al Brule biography was borrowed from the book "The Great American Pin-up" by Charles G. Martignette and Louis K. Meisel. The book may be purchased directly from their official site at The Great American Pin-up.