This impactful and eye-catching original pin up oil-on-board by Gil Elvgren was created for a roadside billboard. A pretty blond Elvgren girl who has just stepped out of a swimming pool enjoys a long tall cool one in this classic good-girl example of breweriana advertising art. Painting comes with the original posed double weight photograph of the model taken by Elvgren, and is pictured on page 237 of the monograph “Gil Elvgren All His Glamorous American Pin-ups” (plate 582), written by Charles Martignette and Louis K. Meisel.
A Cool One
Artist: | Gil Elvgren | |
Date: | 1960s | |
Medium: | Oil on Illustration Board | |
Dimensions: | Sight Size 15" x 30" Framed 16" x 31" | |
Condition: | Excellent | |
Original Use: | Unidentified Brewery Advertising Billboard |
A Cool One
Artist: Gil Elvgren