- The Vargas Collection People always asked, 'Why do you always paint nothing but girls...Girls, girls, girls ' I'd answer, Show me something more beautiful than a beautiful girl, and then I'll go paint it. Alberto Vargas Every GI since World War II knows the work of Alberto Vargas. At least one of his drawings/paintings hung in every GI barracks around the world. Planes especially carried his ...www.treeofknowledge.com/vargas.htm