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Alberto Vargas

1896 - 1982

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Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez (9 February 1896 – 30 December 1982) was a Peruvian-American painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists, and as one of the pioneers of airbrush art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Vargas has received more than 675,802 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Alberto Vargas is the 1,497th most popular painter (down from 1,133rd in 2019), the 82nd most popular biography from Peru (down from 57th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Peruvian Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Alberto Vargas ranks 1,497 out of 1,421. Before him are Arpenik Nalbandyan, J. C. Leyendecker, Gaspar Becerra, Hashimoto Gahō, Paulus Moreelse, and Eugene Lanceray. After him are Gwen John, Isidor Kaufmann, Antonin Mercié, John McCrae, Ulrika Pasch, and Edmund Dulac.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Alberto Vargas ranks 176. Before him are Friedrich Waismann, Brock Chisholm, Gerhard Fieseler, Lado Gudiashvili, Carlos P. Garcia, and Edvin Wide. After him are Anton Walbrook, Louis Bromfield, Mordecai Ardon, Sofya Yanovskaya, Nikolai Tikhonov, and Kostas Karyotakis. Among people deceased in 1982, Alberto Vargas ranks 172. Before him are Raisa Aronova, Beb Bakhuys, Tomás Romero Pereira, Robert Havemann, Marietta Shaginyan, and Frederick Terman. After him are Fritz Laband, Marie Braun, William Primrose, Percy Williams, Rafael Méndez, and Ramón J. Sender.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Alberto Vargas ranks 82 out of 232. Before him are Mario de las Casas (1905), Nicolás de Piérola (1839), Mario Testino (1954), Ciro Alegría (1909), Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro (1780), and Mariano Ignacio Prado (1826). After him are Alberto Gallardo (1940), José Pardo y Barreda (1864), Ricardo Leoncio Elías Arias (1874), Manuel Pardo (1834), Paolo Guerrero (1984), and Esteban Canal (1896).

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Among PAINTERS In Peru

Among painters born in Peru, Alberto Vargas ranks 2. Before him are Boris Vallejo (1941).

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