Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
This is a fabulous example of Gil Elvgren’s pin-up work for the Brown & Bigelow Calendar Company of Saint Paul, MN. This was created and published in 1955 with the title of Welcome Traveler and is one of the finest Elvgren paintings this gallery has offered. A pretty redhead perched on a tweed […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
This is a beautiful, unique, and rare preliminary graphite drawing by Gil Elvgren for a Brown & Bigelow artwork, though it appears the final composition shifted somewhat, as this bears resemblance to a few different published pieces. Gil Elvgren took, on average, one week to complete each of the 400+ pin-up paintings he created […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
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Artist: Gil Elvgren
Marjorie, pin-up model and more This charcoal on paper sketch shows Marjorie Shuttleworth, one of Gil Elvgren’s favorite models in the 1960s in a gorgeous good girl portrait view. Along with modeling for some of Elvgren’s best pin-up paintings, Shuttleworth and Elvgren began a personal romantic relationship after the death of his wife Janet in […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
A rare and never before on the market painting by Gil Elvgren, this exceptional piece is the epitome of pin-up calendar art!
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Newly uncovered original Gil Elvgren painting, overpainted by Vaughan Bass. A 1944 oil on canvas for Louis F. Dow.
Artist: Gil Elvgren
Original pin up painting by Gil Elvgren for sale at Grapefruit Moon Gallery. “He was neither a gentleman or a sculler,” Oil on canvas, Brown & Bigelow, 1948
Artist: Gil Elvgren
This is a beautiful, unique, and rare preliminary graphite drawing by Gil Elvgren for a 1955 speciality advertising calendar for Brown & Bigelow’s exclusive “Miss Sylvania” line for Sylvania Electric. The Miss Sylvania account adapted The Great American Pin-Up to middle America’s buttoned up sensibilities. Each year one of the calendar company’s star artists would […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
This endearing original 1967 oil on canvas painting by Gil Elvgren was created for the Brown & Bigelow calendar company and published under the title Ruffled Feathers. A spirited and colorful pin-up painting featuring a redheaded photographer in silk stockings and garters who runs into unexpected troubles as she attempts to capture the likeness of […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
This is a large preliminary charcoal drawing by Gil Elvgren that was an alternative suggestion for a mid-1950s speciality advertising calendar for Brown & Bigelow’s exclusive “Miss Sylvania” line for Sylvania electric. The Miss Sylvania account adapted The Great American Pin-up to middle America’s buttoned up sensibilities. Each year one of the calendar company’s star […]
Artist: Gil Elvgren
