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A Hitch in Time

Artist:Gil Elvgren
Date:Early 1940s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 23" x 29" Framed 28" x 34"
Condition:Fine
Original Use:Calendar Art for the Louis F Dow Company
Price: Sold

Full view of oil on canvas painting
Full view of oil on canvas painting

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An iconic early original pin up oil painting by Gil Elvgren for the Louis F. Dow calendar company of Saint Paul, Minnesota titled “A Hitch in Time.” In this never before offered published calendar work, a pretty modernist pin up girl is caught hitching up her sexy silk stockings in a hurried moment while tangled up in her dog’s leash. A exemplary piece from the situational cheesecake pin up trend. Gil Elvgren started his career with Louis F. Dow but due to his wild popularity, he was quickly offered a more lucrative contract with their rival Brown & Bigelow. By the mid-1940s, when Elvgren girls were far and away the most popular pin ups on the market, The Louis Dow calendar company had staff artists such as Vaughan Bass overpaint their remaining Elvgren canvases with new background scenes in a moment of crass commercialism that today seems blasphemous. This rare unaltered surviving early work was recently discovered and purchased by our gallery and we are delighted to offer it.

Framed view
Framed view

Frame profile corner view
Frame profile corner view

Published calendar view, included with sale
Published calendar view, included with sale

Published mutoscope card
Published mutoscope card
Verso view
Verso view
Verso notations
Verso notations

A Hitch in Time

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, cheesecake, Gil Elvgren, Louis F. Dow, original calendar art, pin up, stockings, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: June 24, 2014

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

    All artworks featured are original, accurately represented, and guaranteed to be the work of the named artist.

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