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Out of the Running

Artist:Gil Elvgren
Date:1953
Medium:Oil on Stretched Canvas
Dimensions:Sight size 24" x 30" Framed 28" x 34"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Calendar Art for The Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company
Price: Sold
Full view of oil painting
Full view of oil painting
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
The image as it appeared in calendar (included in sale) - September 1955
The image as it appeared in calendar (included in sale) – September 1955

A fabulous surviving Gil Elvgren pin up oil painting from the Brown & Bigelow Calendar line of 1953, published with the title Out of the Running (What A Heel!). A pretty party girl laments the broken shoe that has temporarily taken her away from the evening’s fun. The image was a tremendous success for the company, and could be seen on calendars, blotters, and assorted ephemera throughout the 1950s. A glamorous example with a sexy undercurrent–the detail of expression and the impasto technique used to show off the transparency of her tulle skirting are particularly fine touches. Grapefruit Moon Gallery recently discovered her at a supper club in northern Wisconsin where she had resided since the 1950s, having been given to the proprietors of the restaurant shortly after completion by Elvgren himself. Remarkably, she hung on the restaurant’s walls since that time to the delight of decades of patrons. The work has been professionally cleaned and is in a very fine state of conservation, retaining the original limed wood frame.

Framed view
Framed view
frame profile and corner detail
frame profile and corner detail
An advertising calendar blotter of "out of the Running" included in sale
An advertising calendar blotter of “Out of the Running” included in sale
verso view of canvas on original pine stretchers
Verso view of canvas on original pine stretchers
verso detail
Verso detail

Out of the Running

Artist: Gil Elvgren
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1940s, american, Brown & Bigelow, Gil Elvgren, glamour, original calendar art, pin up, The Golden Gallery
Added to Gallery: April 22, 2014

 

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    About Grapefruit Moon Gallery

    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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