[Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal]

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A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl paired with Sleepytime Gal by Phil Stack followed by a reproduction print of the painting "The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed" by Melbourne Brindle done especially for Esquire Magazine in 1946 for the September edition. The painting celebrates the story of one of the pioneers of large game angling and author Zane Grey who traveled to Tahiti in the spring of 1930 to catch Tahitian striped marlin [Blue Marlin] and on May 16, 1930, caught a Marlin that weighed in at 1040 lbs even after being mutilated … continued below

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[1] p. : ill.; 45 x 34 cm.

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Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Brindle, Melbourne September 1945.

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A spread from Esquire magazine featuring an illustration of a blonde Varga Girl paired with Sleepytime Gal by Phil Stack followed by a reproduction print of the painting "The Biggest Game Fish Ever Landed" by Melbourne Brindle done especially for Esquire Magazine in 1946 for the September edition. The painting celebrates the story of one of the pioneers of large game angling and author Zane Grey who traveled to Tahiti in the spring of 1930 to catch Tahitian striped marlin [Blue Marlin] and on May 16, 1930, caught a Marlin that weighed in at 1040 lbs even after being mutilated by sharks as recorded in Greys' book “Tales of Tahitian Waters" published in 1931.

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[1] p. : ill.; 45 x 34 cm.

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In regards to the historical event of Zane Grey and the Great Tahitian Marlin which inspired the painting by Melbourne Brindle in this item, it is worth noting the connection between the Tahitian Marlin caught by Zane Grey in the "Tales of Tahitian Waters" to the novella "The Old man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway written in 1951. Hemingway would have been in his 30's and himself an avid angler when "Tales of Tahitian Waters" was published by Harper Brothers in 1931, and The Old Man and the Sea was written in 1951, exactly 20 years later.

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  • Preferred Citation: Jack Evans and George E. Harris Collection (The Dallas Way) (AR0788), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Vargas, Alberto; Stack, Phil & Brindle, Melbourne. [Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Illustration: Sleepytime Gal], clipping, September 1945; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1730011/: accessed May 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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