“I don’t like a lot of color, and I don’t like a lot of clutter. I like things to be simple and direct.” – Gil Elvgren.This post features another work of Gil Elvgren – an artist who started out by creating illustrations for calendars and advertisements, then turned to creating pinup art. Of course, he was also an accomplished portrait painter. And this skill appears in this pinup art which shows a beautiful woman, at the bottom of a set of stairs, holding a lamp and a gun. A noise has disturbed her and what made the noise? Her cat!
Known as a humorous artist, at times, this pinup illustrates Elvgren’s sense of humor.
A reproduction of this image of this beautiful woman on the stairs is available as an 8.5 x 11 inch photo print. It is for sale at my store on eBay (without the watermark). You can learn more about purchasing a photo print titled “Looking for Trouble” by clicking on the picture. Or click on the link below the art to be taken to this eBay item.
The Cat, the Girl and the GunAlone in the house,
she and the cat, Puff –
her sister’s cat,
a sister a statistic of
one of the many ways
people die,
too soon. She and the cat
had mourned together
forging
their own bond. Alone, too,
because her spouse
was away – serving the country,
perhaps, saving the world. Then the bang?? broke
her light slumber –
not the creaking of the old house’s
wooden structure settling
in its own sleep,
or the thunder from the storm
outside,
this sound was inside –
a disturbing noise
that needed investigation. Alone, she carried with her
the inherited revolver,
her father’s passing gift –
said to be one of
Doc Holliday’s guns – her
great grandfather played
poker in Tombstone and Colorado
in the old days
(and often won). Down the stairs she crept
ready for anything –
only to find relief
when she would discover
the mystery was but a case
of the cat, Puff,
knocking off a vase
from top a cabinet. ©2024 Carl Scott Harker, author of 
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The Girl, The Gun and The Cat 8.5×11″ Photo Print Gil Elvgren Pinup Art Trouble
Looking for Trouble – the Mysterious Sound by Gil Elvgren.
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Gil Elvgren’s pinup of a Pretty Woman on the Stairs with A Gun.
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