Artists And Their Models

Painter Thomas Hart Benton in his classroom-studio at the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1939.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Jean Negulesco paints a portrait of a nude model in his Hollywood studio.
© Jerry Cooke

Moses Soyer paints a portrait of a woman in his Greenwich Village studio in 1960.

Artist David Fredenthal sketches a model in 1948.
© Gjon Mili

German surrealist Fabius von Gugel sketches a nude outdoors against a backdrop in Rome.
© Jack Birns

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Artists And Their Models

Students at the University of Iowa, 1961.

© Alfred Eisenstaedt

Artist and model in the American Southwest in 1948.
© Alfred Eisenstaedt

A painter prepares a billboard for the 1958 Ava Gardner film, The Naked Maja.
© Bill Bridges

Sculptor Chaim Gross sketches a nude model in 1942.

© Eliot Elisofon

A nude model poses for artist Fletcher Martin in 1940.

© Peter Stackpole

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Summer Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Miami Beach, 1940

Couple floating on inner tube in Apple River, Somerset, WI, US, 1941

Model Tee Matthews as she sits on dock piling at Cypress Gardens, FL, US, Jan 1944

Summer, 1959

Wellesley Students, 1938