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About Roy Best
- Roy Best was an American illustrator and painter of pin-up girls. He was born in Waverly, Ohio on December 3, 1892 and attended the Art Institute of Cincinnati, working on a railroad construction crew to support himself.
- He later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. Later, Best was represented in New York City by American Artists.
- During this time he painted several covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
- By 1931, Best was painting pin-ups for the Joseph C.
- Hoover & Sons calendar company.
- That same year, he was commissioned by the Whitman Publishing Company to illustrate The Peter Pan Picture Book, based on J.
- M.
- Barrie's play Peter Pan; an illustration from this project was the basis for the Peter Pan Bus Lines logo.
- He illustrated many other children's books, including "Little Friends from Many Lands" by Mary Windsor (Whitman Publishing Company, 1935).
- He also painted a number of well-known actresses such as Grace Kelly. In 1942 Best was commissioned by the Treasury's Section of Painting and Sculpture to paint a post office mural, Arrival of Packet, in his hometown of Waverly, Ohio.
- That same year he was hired by Brown and Bigelow leading to a career producing calendar pin-ups. In later years, he was known for his corporate-commissioned oil portraiture, and watercolor landscapes of Cape Cod, his retirement home.
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