{"id":115,"date":"2013-09-16T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/?p=115"},"modified":"2024-04-25T11:14:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T10:14:16","slug":"whos-that-girl-who-were-the-aero-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/borthwick-institute\/2013\/09\/16\/whos-that-girl-who-were-the-aero-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Who’s that Girl? Who were the Aero Girls?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by Kerstin Doble, National Archives Trainee.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this year I introduced you to Rowntree\u2019s Aero Girls paintings<\/a>, which were commissioned for use in Aero chocolate advertising in print and television from 1951 to 1957. Since then we\u2019ve managed to track down the only living painter who worked on the 1950s campaign, Frederick Deane RP<\/a>, as well as three new Aero Girl paintings fresh out of the Nestl\u00e9 archives. I’ll be telling you more about these discoveries in my next blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019d love to find out even more about this enigmatic collection of figurative paintings and invite you to share your stories at our upcoming free exhibition Who were the Aero Girls? on show at York Mansion House from 12 October to 20 October 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those of you a little further afield, below is an image map of our entire collection of twenty Aero Girls paintings. You can find out more about each of these women on our dedicated Aero Girls website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you recognise any of these women? Were the Aero Girls life models, fictitious characters, wives, girlfriends, your grandmother, your sister, your best friend? Where are they now? We want to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anna. Alice. Wendy. The Country Girl. The Art Student. Who were these women? And what was their story? Where are they now? What happened to the paintings that are missing from the Rowntree\u2019s collection? If you were an Aero Girl or if you know of one, the Borthwick Institute would love to hear from you. Please contact us at borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Who were the Aero Girls? Discovering Hidden Art in the Archives\u2019 <\/em>is part of Chocolate Week 2013. On display for the first time since leaving Rowntree\u2019s factory, will be a carefully curated selection of our Aero Girls collection. A unique opportunity to glimpse into some of our lesser known archive holdings, the exhibition also documents the Borthwick Institute\u2019s journey so far to unwrap the mysteries and unearth new information about these little-known artworks. Visitors are encouraged to share their stories, to ask new questions and continue the research, at the Borthwick Institute and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aero chocolate is still made in York to this day by Nestl\u00e9, who took over Rowntree\u2019s in the late 1980s and are official sponsors of our upcoming exhibition. Nestl\u00e9 archivist Alex Hutchinson said, \u2018We’re delighted that some of our old treasures are being shared with a wider audience. The Borthwick Institute do a great job of looking after parts of our archive and we\u2019re really proud to work with them. Although we have a large collection of original artworks, some have gone missing over the years. We’d love to know where the rest of the Aero artworks are now, and what happened to the painting’s sitters, what were their stories?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘Who were the Aero Girls? Discovering Hidden Art in the Archives’ <\/em>takes place at York Mansion House, St Helen\u2019s Square, York from Saturday 12 to Sunday 20 October 2013, from 11am \u2013 4pm daily (closed Tuesday 15 October). Admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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