Meet Hilda, America’s forgotten plus size pinup girl! She’s the creation of illustrator Duane Bryers and pinup art’s best kept secret. Voluptuous in all the right places, a little clumsy but not at all shy about her figure. Hilda was one of the only atypical plus sized pinup queens to grace the pages of American calendars from the 1950s up until the early 1980s, and achieved moderate notoriety in the 1960s. As you can see in the images below, she is quite beautiful and cheeky!

Online gallery curator and Hilda collector, Les Toil said about the artist: “Duane Bryers had the chops to have been one of the greatest pin-up artists in America, but possibly his lust for ample-sized women prevented that.

Quite a few summers back while perusing a local outdoors antique show, I came across a vintage calendar from 1965. As my eyes settled on this fine piece of lost Americana, all else slipped away. A light from the heavens shone directly on Hilda’s sweet, rosy face, fiery red mop top and that incredible abundant anatomy. Hilda is the only known ample sized icon in pinup history that I have come upon. And yes, she very well does qualify as an icon.”

Artist: Duane Bryers

(via: Geek Girls)