The Girl, The Gun and The Cat Aug 22nd, 2024 by Aldouspi
“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 Gun Alone 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
Classic Fine Art of Cats
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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Beautiful Woman on Roof by Elvgren Mar 8th, 2024 by Aldouspi
Beautiful Woman on Roof by Gil Elvgren – Beautiful Pinup Art
There was a time when to watch shows on your television set you had to have an antenna on your house’s roof. And to get the perfect picture you needed to adjust the antenna – moving it right or left – to pick up the best broadcast signal. In the lovely Gil Elvgren pin-up art below, a beautiful woman is sitting on the edge of a roof adjusting the TV aerial and and showing a bit of leg at the same time. This is a classic example of the sexy “cheesecake” art of the late 1940’s and 1950’s.
This image of a pretty woman up on the rooftop, her leg curled around the pole of a television antenna, 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 of this “Woman up on the Roof” by clicking on the picture. Or click on the link below the art to be taken to this eBay item.
Beautiful Woman Shows Legs While Fixing TV Antenna by Gil Elvgren Pinup Woman on the Roof The pinups of the past were women who got things done – INDEPENDENT from their hubbies off at work.
Beautiful, but handy, too you might find her up on the roof adjusting a TV antenna, when needed, to make sure she could watch “The World Turns” without static on the television screen.
And if neighbors got a look at her lovely legs when she was working so diligently up there…. Well, they should just mind their own business – and look away!
©2024 Carl Scott Harker, author of The Happy Cat
Beautiful Lady on the Roof by artist Gil Elvgren.
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