The Most Beautiful Pin Up Girls of Gil Elvgren

A Brief History on Gil Elvgren Some of the information below is from Wikipedia The Free Web Encyclopedia: A handful of American artists would lift the pinup calendar to its greatest heights. Among those, Alberto Vargas, George Petty, Rolf Armstrong, Zoe Mozert, Earl Moran and to the one and only Gil Elvgren.

Gil Elvgren (March 15, 1914-February 29, 1980), born Gillette Elvgren, was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren lived in various locations, and was active from the 1930s to 1970s. Today he is best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow.

Elvgren was one of the most important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. In addition, he was a classical American illustrator. He was a master of portraying the feminine, but he wasn’t limited to the calendar pin-up industry. He was strongly influenced by the early “pretty girl” illustrators, such as Charles Dana Gibson, Andrew Loomis, and Howard Chandler Christy. Other influences included the Brandywine School founded by Howard Pyle.

Elvgren was a commercial success. His clients ranged from Brown & Bigelow and Coca-Cola to General Electric and Sealy Mattress Company. In addition, during the 1940s and 1950s he illustrated stories for a host of magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post and Good Housekeeping. Although best known for his pin-ups, his work for Coca-Cola and others depicted typical Americans — ordinary people doing everyday things. …
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Here is my take on a 50’s pin-up shot. The records I had were all from different eras, but you can’t really make them out.

I know the pin-up usually looks at the camera, and I have loads of shots like that, but I thought this was more natural… more candid.

Model: Melissa

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AB800 camera right, high, in DIY beauty dish.

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… Williams wrote in her autobiography If it took nine months for a baby to be born I figured my birth from Esther Williams the swimmer to Esther Williams the movie actress would not be much different A pin up of Williams from a 1945 …

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Monster Tune from 1991 on Network Records.